The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 460, 18 March 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1878.

To-day, being Si Patrick’s Day, has been observed as a holiday. All the banks and most of the business places were closed, and a number of people left by tram to attend the Greymouth races. In consequence of the inclemency of the weather, the Greymouth races have been postponed till to-morrow. The ball advertised by Mrs Harrison to take place this evening is postponed until a future date.

Mr Hamer, the Ross agent of the Bank of New Zealand, is missing.

It is proposed to hold an Easter race meeting at Hokitika, and a programme, with stakes amounting to £265, has been drafted.

Specimens of gold-bearing quartz from Kelly’s Creek, in the Taipo district, are being exhibited in Hokitika. A laborer named Templeton, resident at Tokomairiro, has been sent to gaol for ten days for nonpayment of school fees for his children. From our telegraphic columns it will be seen that Florence Joseph, of Nelson, hairdresser, who was lynched the other day, has been sentenced to six years’ penal servitude for committing an indecent assault on a child.

Saturday’s Hokitika Evening Star says—“ We are sorry to find that our Kumara contemporary, for speaking the truth, has fallen upon evil times. * * * Our contemporary can take the Rev. Rather Martin’s letter alone in the fullest justification of his remarks, whilst, if additional evidence is necessary, it can readily be supplied in Hokitika, and we are prepared to prove every word that we have staled relative to the domestic misery that Father Hennebery has occasioned.” Dr E. N. Chapman, of Brooklyn, New York, has come out with a counterblast to the Murphy missionaries and temperance lecturers generally. He has demonstrated that alcohol, administered in the form of whiskey, is a specific for diptheria. Salvini has just made a tremendous impression in Paris with his acting in the closing scene of “La Mort Civile.” He was so absolutely true to nature that those who saw him felt that they were looking at a reality. Some interval elapsed after the curtain fell before the audience ventured to applaud. They then recalled Salvini repeatedly, but—strangest tribute of all to the impression produced—they still lingered about their places, unwilling to leave, the women sobbing and the men very pale.