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Kumara Times, Issue 520, 28 May 1878, Page 2

A meeting of the Kumara Hospital Committee will be held in the Council Chambers, at 8 o'clock this evening Amongst other important business to be transacted will be the appointment of a wardsman. There are Bor 9 applicants, and as iipon the selection of a good man much or the success of the new institution will depend, we trust the Committee will make a judicious choice. •plv 6 -£ C O ifle3 wiU at the Public Hall this-evening.

William Smith's tender of £27,590 has been accepted by the Hokitika Harbor Board for the construction of harbor "works. Sergeant O'Malley, of the Police Force, Hokitika, has been transferred to Gisborne. Sergeant M'Ardle, of the Lyell, will be removed to Hokitika. It will be remembered that a few years ago a number of mysterious disappearances occurred in Sydney, and that the ! finding of the dead body of a schoolmaster J in the Parramatta river led to the detection of a gang, several of whom were tried and executed. Something of the same sort would almost appear to be going on in Canterbury. A night watchman at Lyttelton, who was last seen on board the ship Himalaya, is supposed to have been drowned ; and a man named Gilchrist, a resident of Oxford, has mysteriously disappeared. There has been a shindy with the Natives at Palmerston, which is graphically described by the Manawatu Times. Constable Gillespie, on Thursday evening, attempted to arrest a Maori, named Warren, for disorderly conduct. The constable collared his man, but was set upon by a lot of Maori women, and ultimately by some male Maoris, who, by force, rescued the prisoner. The constable then arrested one of his assailants, but was again attacked and the prisoner dragged away. There were about 50 Natives in the township, who took possession of the square and yelled defiance like fiends. At one time the affair appeared likely to end in a general fight between the Europeans and the Natives. Ultimately the constable was extricated from the melee, and it Was decided to attempt no more arrests. A number of the ringleaders will be summoned before the Resident Magistrate at Palmerston, when it is to be hoped they will be subjected to exemplary punishment. Maori "bounce" needs checking by imprisonment and hard labour. For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— I [Advt.J