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Kumara Times, Issue 522, 30 May 1878, Page 2

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. Divine service will be held in the new English Church this evening, this being Ascension Day. We were in error in stating yesterday that Mr Blake had been returned unopposed to represent the Arahura riding of the County Council. Mr M. Griffith has also been nominated, and the election will take place on the Bth proximo. During the hearing of some cases in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, in which persons were charged with not having taken out business licences, Mr Price mentioned that it was important people should know that such -licences are now transferable. The Press Agency has been making itself ridiculous again. Tiie New Zealand Herald says of it. "The Press Agency lias bean good enough to incur the expense of procuring certain special correspondents' letters from China and Buenos Ayres, and has tramsmitted us some two thousand words therefrom. The matter 2Jartly relates to affairs in the capital of .the Argentine Republic, and gives news from that capital which is only some three-and-a-half months old ; and is not of such a particularly stirring character as to demand costly transmission by telegraph. The same might be said about that portion of the Agency's correspondence which comes from China, more especially as it happens that we had equally late dates from China by the San Francisco mail, which arrived here a week ago. Telegraphic enterprise is a very proper thing on the part of the Agency, and we like to see it; we should, however, prefer the exercise of a little more discriminating judgment as to what is new and really worth transmission." The West Coast Times says that there is still no pronounced candidate for the seat in Parliament vacated by Mr Button. Rumour, of course, lias been busy with the names of several gentlemen, but.as yet no one has been bold enough to announce himself. In referring to the rumour that Government intend to adopt the Home system of numbering the police constables, the Dunedin Age compassionately remarks that this will effectually place the police at the mercy of every larrikin or rough who thinks proper to annoy them. The favourite mode of insulting a numbered constable is to walk audaciously in front of him, ostentatiously exhibit a sixpenny notebook, and looking at his cap deliberately note down his number. The policeman feels humiliated, but cannot reseent the insult, and the affronter moves away, delighted at the way in which he has revenged himself. Lady Vogel, it appears, whose name is published with a long list of Countesses and Ladies, is one of the patronesses of the London Ladies' Dress Association, a co-operative millinery and dress company. It is said that the ex,-Prince Imperial of Prance is to proceed shortly to Algeria, where he is to enter the French army in the capacity of a private, for his one year s service, the retention of his quality of a French citizen imposing this obligation upon him. One of the London theatres gives as a spectacle "The Taking of Plevna," effected by Turkish troops. When remonstrated with upon this deviation from history the manager replied, "Well, sir, we did our best. We made the Russians take it for three nights; but 'the gods' wouldn't have it at any price. And it's our business always to please the public." Mr George Darwin, after searching investigation, concludes that 'the widely different habits of life of men and women in civilized nations, especially among the upper classes, tend to counterbalance any evilfrom marriage between healthy closelyrelated persons.' Mr Darwin's views are in a measure sustained by Dr Vomi's inquiry into the commune of Batz. Batz is a rocky, ocean-washed peninsula of the Loire Inferieuro, Frauce, containing over three thousand people of simple habits who don't drink and commit no crime. For generations they have intermarried, but no cases have occurred of deaf mutism, albilioism, blindness, or malformation, and the number of children is above the average. Out of 15 elections in France on the Ist ('iii3t., 14 Republicans were elected. A j fresh ballot is nesessary in the other inj stance. i Burns says, with gloomy grmdour, ; "There is a foggy atmosphere native to I my soul in the hour of cars, which nukes ' the dreary objects seem larger than life." : He who suffers thus cannot bo relieved by I any appliances save those that t> ich the I he.irt—cue lnm/iier the move sanative and none so sure as a wife's auction. True, 0 poet, but he who suffers tiia racing pains of rhe unatism, sciatica, or luu- , bago, should use, eomirinod with yom- ; prescription, " Ghollah's Gro.it Indian ' Cures," tiie wonder of the nineteenth century. Testimonials may be seen in another column, and Medicines may be ■ procured at all Chemists.—[An vr.] For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— 1 [Advt.]