The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 463, 21 March 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1878.

_ An admirable letter from the pen of the Rev. G W. Russell appears in last mghts Hokitika Star, respecting the Hennebery controversy, in the course of winch he says “ Upon Friday, March Bth (the evening your first article appeared), I heard Father Hennebery. That night he declared that any marriage celebrated by a non-Catholic minister between a Catholic and a non-Catholic was nul and void.’ He asserted that marriage by a Registrar was no marriage at all ; he said ‘ any Catholic niaiTying a non-Catholic, without a dispensation from the Catholic Church, and dying in that state, would go straight to hell. ’ I am prepared to take an oatli that those words were used; and numbers I can mention would do the same.” We have been strongly urged to republish the whole letter; but must apply to it the .same rule as we did to Father Martin’s. Dnly letters addressed to the editor of this journal can find a place in these columns.

The business transacted at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning was unimportant.

Messrs F. A. Learmonth and Co. will sell by auction on Monday, at the mart, a fourth share in Larry Moore and party’s claim, near the dam, at present in full working order.

The Kumara Cricket Club plays the Greymouth cricketers to-morrow at Kumara. Referring to this the Grey River Argus sententiously remarks, “Of course it is well understood that the Grey men will win.” That, we take it, remains to be seen. The following is the list of the Greymouth team :—Messrs Nixon, Perkins, Corbett, White, Clements, North, Guinness, P. and J. M‘Gregor, M‘Davitt, and Howie. .

It is stated that some workmen on the Okarito road, have come across a prospect of alluvial wash.

At the Greymouth races yesterday a revolver in the holster of mounted-con-stable Dorris exploded, with the result that a youth who was some fifty or sixty yards away was struck by the ball on the muscular portion of the arm above the elbow, causing a painful contusion only. The extraordinary part of this misfortune is that the ball, after hitting the youth referred to, passed through the coat of another’, and finally found its resting place in the pocket of another boy. No blame whatever, the Argus states, can be attached to the Constable.

A French arithmatician has made the following calculation with respect to the performance of Blondin. Blondin commenced his tight-rope exhibition in 1858, since which time he has appeared in public 3000 times, and on each occasion has traversed his rope eight times, the length being 100 metres, or 2400 kilometres—the distance between Paris and New York—without an accident.