The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 561, 15 July 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, JULY 15, 1878.

The Government, in view of enforcing the regulations of " The Fish Protection Act, 1877," which came into fores in the beginning of April last, have, through, the Marine Department, forwarded a, circular to the head* of the various Constabulary depots throughout the Colony, calling their attention to its provisions. There is little reason to doubt that, if not checked, the wholesale and systematic destruction of fish before (hey come to maturity, which has for years been carried out in this Colony will ultimately depopulate its waters. In this district especially such is the case, our attention having been repeatedly drawu to the fact that parties are engaged with Seine nets, and otherwise, at all seasons of the year, in reducing the already diminished stnck of fish located in our rivers. The persons to whom we allude, by being eognisant with the provisions of the Act, are enabled to violate it in spirit though not in the strict letter of the law, by taking advantage of (he clause under which the limiis of the We»tlancl District are prescribed which is as follows :—" All the tidal waters bounding on the Provincial District of West!and, comprised within a line drawn parallel to and three miles distant from high watermark, the line of high watermark, and due east and west lines joining those two boundaries." By this it will be seen that the total annihilation of the finny tribe if in a river, three miles from high watermark can be engaged in with impunity. Tins clause we apprehend wheu brought under the notice of the Government will be materially alteied or amended, as at present constituted, to all intents and put poses it makes the beneficial effects likely to arise from the Act being brou"ht into operation a dead letter as far as this district is concerned. The Act also provides for the issuing of licenses upon the payment of a fee of twenty shilling's which entitles the holder to catch or take fish in any river subject to the regulations issued. One clause it contains is of more than ordinary interest to the public, inasmuch as the. buyer or any person found with fi-h. in their possession are under it, liable to a heavy penalty, if unabhi to produce legal proof that the party ftom whom they obtained the fish came lawfully by the same. The clause referred to" says. "It shall not be; lawful for any person to buy, sell, or have in po.sses.3ion any fish taken in contravention of this Act or of general regulations, and fish so taken shall be deemed to be forfeited ; and any person found in possess-on of any fish so taken, or any part or portion thereof, shall be deemed to have obtained the same in violation of this Act, except only upon legal proof r.o the contrary, which proof shall devolve wholly upon the person accused ; and every person convicted under the provisions of this section shall bo liable for each offri.ncfe to not exceedingtwenty pounds." '

Supplementary English and other mails, via San Francisco, will close at 11.30 a.m., to-morrow (Tuesday) the 16th July. At a special meeting of the Borough Council, held this afternoon, thefollowing tenders were accepted .: For Seddon street contract : Kelly and Co., £l5O ; Dnmimond's Corner culvert : A. Miller, £2O 12s ; Quinn's Creek : O'Brian and Co., £62 14s.

A public meeting will be held in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening, to receive the report of the Committee of the Kumara Prospecting Association. As this is a matter of great importance to the district generally, we trust to see a large attendance on the occasion. The New Zealand Sun is evidently endeavouring to hoodwink the public as to the influence our new member for the district, S. T. George, Esq., has with the Goverment, as by a sub-leader of the 11th inst., in which is embodied a letter from the Colonial Treasurer, acting for the Minister of Justice, referring to the refund of publican's licenses in this town, it has substituted the word "gentleman" for "Sir" to make it appear that it was in reply to a deputation that waited on the junior member of this district relative to the aforesaid it ,was written. As published in our issue of the 3rd instant the letter was received in reply to one of the 6th of February from Mr Barff, M.H.R., on this subject and as the Sun reprinted this from our columns, they might have given "honor to when honor is due," and not, probably in the own interests, by the alteration of a; word, changed the appearance of the whole question. ' Tenders are called for the supply of white pine blocks for a tramway company at Dillman's Town. Tenders close on Saturday evening next, at six o'clock. A special telegram to the Wellington Post gives the following :—" A wholesale massacre has occurred in New Caledonia. The Aki and Boulan-pasi tribes have risen, and there has been a horrible massacre of the white settlers, men, women, and children, and gensdarmes, one hundred being murdered. The natives committed horible mutilations Two military stations were taken and burned. The chassepot rifles and amunition are in the hands of the rebels. Colonel Galley Passebore was killed, leading the troops against the enemy. The inhabitants have been enrolled and a war of extermination declared against the rebels. The convicts aud Communists are quiet, but men-of-war are stationed around the coast for fear of a rising. Some English residents have been killed."

For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page. — [Advt.] Burns _ says, with gloomy grandeur, "There is a foggy atmosphere native to my soid in the hour of care, which makes the dreary objects seem larger than life." He who suffers thus cannot be relieved by any appliances save those that touch the heart—the homelier the more sanative—' and none so sure as a wife's affection. True, O poet, but he who suffers the racking pains of rheumatism, sciatica, or lumbago, should use, combined with your prescription, " Ghollah's Great Indian Cures," the wonder of the nineteenth century. Testimonial;! ma}' be seen in another column, and Medicines may be procured at all Chemists.—[Abvt.] REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. TO PRRSS AGENCY. THE RISING IN NEW CALEDONIA. Sydney, July 13. It is stated that Governor Robinson has informed the Governor of New Caledonia that he cannot comply with his request to send troops to assist in quelling the native outbreak, but that the Sapphire has been despaohed from New Zealand to New Caledonia in consequence of the state of affairs there.

LATEST UNPUBLISHED. THE ANGLO -TURKISH CONVENTION. ANOTHER BRITISH LOAN. London, July 13. The Anglo-Turkish convention was pi'oc'aimed at Cyprus, after which the Secretary of the British Embassy at Constantinople took possession of the island. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in replying to a question, said a money vote would be required in connection with the convention [with Turkey]. [special to press agency.] PORTUGUESE LOANS. THE GARONNE INQUIRY. STRANDING OF AN EMIGRANT VESSEL. THE ORANGE PROCESSIONS. London, July 31. A Portuguese loan of two and a-half millions, and a National loan for £IOO,OO has been fullv subscribed.

Tlie Grsironnfi inquiry is over. The C-ip'ain is blam,«d, an-l his certificate bis heen suspended for six months. The Scottish Admiral, with emigrants for Queensland, is stranded at Southend.

En ' cqiisoqiiencs <>f thn excitement, Hie Or>mj(empii voltinfcuily desisted from hoiding a procession at Montreal.