The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 595, 24 August 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1878.

We are requested by the auctioneers, Messrs F.:A. Learmonth and Co., to draw attention to their sale at the Waimea, of. Mr Seddon's property, which will take place at half-past ten o'clock ; and also the Kumara Brewery, which will be offered in the Main Road at one o'clock.

Mr J. C. Duffy, formerly traveller for Messrs PizzejAand Co., of Hokitika, who was arrested yesterday evening at Greymouth, on a charge of embezzlement was this morning brought before the Resident Magistrate there, and acquitted. As Mr DuSy had many friends in this district they, will be glad to hear the whole matter arose through a mistake, and that the charge made was groundless. We are informed that a grand concert in aid of the funds of the Presbyterian Church will be held shortly, and that the members of the Weslyan. body intend holding an entertainment for a similar object, the dates being so arranged that the public will be enabled to attend both, and also have a moderate interval between.

Those having tickets in Tonks' Metropolitan Sweep will, by reference to our advertising columns, be enabled to ascertain whether their venture has been successful or otherwise.

We understand that the petition for presentation to Pai'liameni forwarded here by the Greymouth Railway Committee in favour of the Amberley route has received a large number of signatures. It is the intention of the Committee,.to afford those an opportunity who have not yet signed it, to have a copy of the petition on a table at Drummond's corner, tiiis evening, when it is to be hoped that all those who are interested in a route that would not only benefit the district but also one that there is every probability will be of the easiest construction, will auodiid their signatures.

A tax of ten per cent, is levied in Paris for the benofit of the poor upon all tickets taken at theatres, public bails, music halls, or any other place of amusement. It is known as the " droit des pauvres." "Oh for some new-coined name by which to call him ! Oh for some name no other lips could give V was the prayer of Violet. until she married him. Now she is content to call him Old Beeswax.

I It is announced (the Home News says) that a circulating library for children has been for some years in active operation in . Oxford street, London. The Turkish title of honour " Gazi," or "Ghazi," is explained by Bartheiemy d'Herbelot in his Bibliotheque Orientale. It signifies a "conqueror," and was originally conferred as a surname upon several princes among the Arabs, as well as the Turks, who had carried on war against the infidels, and had extended the limits of Mohamedanism. It is stated that the Berlin Criminal Court has received several letters threatening the assassination of all sovereigns if Nobeling is harshly treated. The number of arrests in Prussia for disloyal utterj ancest is increasing significantly. Dr. j Nobeling's younger brother has been arI rested. A Berlin desptach says Prince Bismarch's nervousness has so increased since the attempt on the life of the Emperor that it is expected it will be necessary to appoint a colleague. There is a good story current this year in a certain town in Normandy much frequented by British tourists. An Englishman lost his purse from his badroom while staying at his hotel, and applied to the landlord for redress. The latter explained to him that every one in the house was a paragon of honesty ; that they would sooner perish on the scaffold than touch a sou belonging to any one else. There was however two" strangers in the hotel, Englishmen, concerning whose character he knew nothing, either good or bad. •'' Will monsieur interrogate them for himself ?" " Monsieur" did 30, and found them to be Alfred Tennyson' and Dean Stanley ! The average locomotive mileage per year in the different countries of the world has been.calculated by Professor Stunner, of Bromberg, and for the' leading countries the figures are as follow :

Miles. France, 1873 ... ... 23,475 United States, 1875 ... 21,900, Great Britain, 1875 ... 16,865 Germany, 1875 11,834 Austria, 1875 ... ... 11,700 All rest Europe, 1875... 15,300 East Indies 13,400 From the same source we learn that the average number of trains per day both' ways in 1875 was 20"9 in Europe, 147 in the United States, and 8-2 in India. The returns of the recent Census in. France show that there are now eight towns in France, exclusive of Paris, which have a population of more than 100,000. These, in order of importance, are Lyons (342,800), Marseilles (318,900), Bordeaux (215,200), Lille (162,700), Toulouse (131,600), St. Etienne (126,000), Nantes (122,300), and Rouen (104-900). This gives a total of 1,524,400 for the eight towns, the collective population of which is not therefore equal to that of Paris, which slightly exceeds 2,000,000. Probably most girls have felt so, says an American contemporary, but few of thorn have ever had the grace to express it in this way: "She frankly declared that the first time a coat-sleeve encircled her waist she seemed to be in a pavilion built of rainbows, the window-sills of which were composed of iEolian harps." Scipio said that "a valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen, than to destroy a thousand enemies." Gollah on a similar principle, destroys the thousand pains of rheumatism, sciaticia, and lumbago, by his " Great Indian Cures," the wonder of the nineteenth century. Testimonials may be seen in another column, and medicines may be procured at all Chemists.—[Advt.] Fur miraculous cures by the use of E-icalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt.]