The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 574, 30 July 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1878.

A meeting of ratepayers will be held at the Helvetia Hotel, Goldsboro ugh, tonight at eight o’clock, at wiuc'.i members of tile County Council and Road Boards are invited to attend.

The usual weekly pavade of the local Rifles will take place this evening. A well-known professional sportsman of this town met with an agreeable surprise on returning home on Sunday morning last, by finding that during lus absence there had been a case of forcible entry on his promises, and that the removal of the intruder could only he effected by the united efforts of axes and cross-cuts. As a ride he is not given to midnidit wandering, but considers under the circumstances that it was fortunately one of his “ niglits outas from the appearances of his cottage, had he been at home, there is ever/ probability the services of the Coroner would have been brought into requisition. Our Dilbnan'a Town 'friends although pos-iessing all the usual luxuries appertaining to a town, are sad!;,- in 'want of one important, though nccessuw nuisance in the person of a l>,.llma'i. ■ L i ;t : evm»hi w the conveners of the public meethv' thought it advisable to announce shelr Urr.val, and also the ooject ot the ir. retina by the sonorous tunes of the beUuum Toe Dell was tors- 1 coming, beta uiur’pulator of this instrument was not to be

found. In tins emergency one gentlemen of the party volunteered the-iu formation, that he understood the business ; but a member of tho Fourth Estate being present, he wasn’t on. Many suggestions were made, ending in one of v‘iu party “ who evidently was not in iho business” acting the musician by ringing the bell first, and blowing his own trumpet afterwards.- We trust the bint will be taken, and that the position of bellman to the neighbouring township will not be a vacancy of long standing.

hir Dixon announces in another column that he has commenced business in SaJdon street, as a lock and gun smith.

The Wa’igauui Herald tells a good story of local boniface : —“ Ho possesses a weather glass which usually was placed in the passage of the hotel within a convenient (list-nice from the hour. , Daring tho recent heavy rains that unfortunate glass was being perpetually tapped by anxious seekers after indications of •» change. One day the landlord obtained a ladder and placed the glaas well above the reach of the would-be tappers. Two visitors came in, and on looking at the weather glass, had to strain their necks to read it. They fancied it was favourable, and Boniface passing just then, one said, ‘ the glass is high.’ Without a smile the answer was given, ‘Yes, I put it up there on purpose. ’ ” Says “Atlas,” in the World In the House of Commons the other night, in I the debate about Sunday closing tn Ireland, a distinguished member of the torn- , pereuce party openly broke tho pledge I amid the laughter of thy House. Mr ■! O’Sullivan the representative of “silent * whisky,” was perorating, when Mr Snlli- : van. v without the 0), wishing to prepare to follow m the debate, thought it well i to take a pull at Mi’ 0 Sullivans’ tumbler, which contained, as he thought, only water. It was half full of whisky. The : wry face and despumatory gestures of the i honourable and teetotal member when he discovered his mistake convulsed the House. \ ;

T’ic Insurance and Banlrng Record draws attention to a curious fact in connection with the hanking returns for the quarter ending tho 31st March —namely, that the returns from Victoria, and New .South W ales are mr-wticaly equal in amount. They are :w follow Liabilities : Yiotona, £13,2x2,231 ; New South Wales, ;Lld,o-I-2,4!f 1. Deposits boarinr intevsst; Victoria, £11,52.1,708 ; New South Wales, £il,ond,2'di). Not hearing interest : Victoria, New South Wales, ■O"N 107,; 07. Total deposits : Victoria, ,ti i,003,403 ; and New South Wales, £10,505,012.

A disturbance took place at a marriage In a Methodist chapel at Hanley recently. An old man of seventy, with several grown up children and grand-children, had arranged to bo married to a girl eighteen years old. On the party arriving at the chapel they wore attacked by a mob and their clothes were torn. Ton policevaoijT were present, but were overpowered, audg the mob rushed into the chapel, and kopr‘ up a continual noise throughout the ceremony. A window was broken and a great disturbance followed. The pair finally escaped by different doors, and wore escorted home by eight constables.

S uns of tho English papers led away by the early success of the Australian cricketers, employed very strong epithets to express the intense degree of their admiration. The bowlers came in for the lion’s share of praise, being described amongst other tilings—-Allan as a “crouching panther,” Boyle as “the very devil,” and Spoftorth as the “demon bowler.” Regarding the batsmen, the Sporting Life thinks Horan’s defence is simply perfect.

The London Times In a review of Trollope’s “South Africa,” refers to Now Zealand as now being England’s “pet colony.” A correspondent of 1 Notes and Queries’ tells the following anecdote of the Bishop of Manchester : —“ A class of school girls says the story, highly • educated on the newest principle, were pouring forth to Ins Lordship a list of latin words, with the English equivalents, and they came to tho word which we elders would call ‘vicissim.’ ‘ We-kiss-im,’ said the girls; ‘ wo-kiss-im—by turns.’ ‘ Oh, do you I’ answered the Bishop I ‘ then I don’t wonder at your adopting the new pronunciation. ’”

Pur miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Anvr.] 1

Burns says, with gloomy grandeur, .“There b a foggy atmosphere native to my soul in tho hour of care, which makes the dreary objects seem larger than life.” Ho who suffers thus cannot be relieved by any appliances save those that touch the he irt—the homelier the more sanative—and none so sure as a wife’s affection. True, O poet, hut he who sudors the ricking pains of rheumatism, sciatica, or lumbago, should use, combined with your prescription, “ Gholiah’s Groat Indian Cares,” the wonder of the nineteenth century. Testimonials may be seen in another column, and Medicines may be procured at all Chemists.—fAnvr.]