The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 617, 19 September 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1878.

We have been favored by Mr Barff with a telegram as follows:—"A deputation, including Messrs Bonar, Barff, Lahman, Gisbome, Woolcock, Reeves, and George, waitedon the Minister of Education re aid to the Westland Board of Education. Mr Ballance held out no hope of assistance. The Inspector-General will visit Westland and report. Mr Ballance accuses the Board of extravagance." A public meeting will be held at Stafford Town, on Saturday, and at Goldsborough on Monday evening next, re- , lative to the proposed railway route between Greymouth and Hokitika. The Borough Council will meet this j evening at half-past 7 o'clock, when it is I expected the new councillors will take ! their seats for the first time. ! At the Resident Magistrate's Court i this morning, before M. Price Esq., I R.M., Andrew Hughes and Annie Smith i were fined 10a or 24 hours' imprisonment, ' for drunkenness. There were fourteen civil : cases set down for hearing, out of which : one confessed judgment, one was dia- j missed, and the remainder were settled ! out of Court. The whole business of the j Court occupied about,ls minutes, and the '

J Resident Magistrate remarked he did not know whether this spoke well for the place or otherwise. Attention is specially directed to the sale to-morrow, by Messrs P. A. Learmonth and Co., of some valuable property both iu Main and Seddon streets. As there is also a large assortment of furniture to be offered, those requiring articles in this line will have an excellent opportunity to invest. The Secretary of the Volunteer Fire Brigade has received a donation of £2 2s from the agents of each of the local Banks, on behalf of the funds of the corps. The contractor for the new bridge over the Teremakau river will shortly commence active operations. The engine is now ready, and it was generally understood that ihe first pile of this important work would have been driven yesterday, but we understood it will take place this afternoon. The officers of the Government steamers Hinemoa and Stella have been decked in a new uniform, at the expense of the people of New Zealand. They, donned their new garments for the first time on Friday, and a Wellington paper pronounces them " neat and effective." The officers of her Majesty's army and navy are expected to provide their own uniforms, and no reason is apparent why New Zealand's naval officers should not be allowed the same privilege. It is true that livery servants generally obtain their brilliant clothing from their employers, but Captain Fairchild and his mates would be little flattered by any argument based on that circumstance. The 'lntelligent Vagrant' in the Bruce Herald is responsible for the following :•>— "Of the Wellington gentlemen who travelled in the special train to Lawrence on Saturday one was Mr J. H. Wallace, as decent an old fellow as you would wish to meet in a day's march. In order to pereuade people that all the distinguished visitors had not been left behind in Dunedin, Mr Wallace was introduced on all possible occasions as the Rev. Dr Wallace, M.H.R. This succeeded, so far as lam aware admirably, except in two cases. In one of these a gentleman on being intro-1 duced'said 'No, no ; you can't have me. j That face was never got up on cold water. ' And in another case I heard one gentleman who had been watching Mr Wallace, say to another, ' I tell you he's like the rest of them an old humbug. He may talk cold water in the House, but he takes whisky out. I saw him do it five minutes ago."' Anyone who is acquainted with Mr Wallace will appreciate the joke. A gang of coiners has been discovered in Melbourne, and three men and a boy have been arrested. In a house at Hotham. occupied by the prisoners, the police found the whole of the apparatus necessary for striking off base coins, together with an immense nmmW of unfinished shillings. The Baltimore American of the 20th July says:—The most remarkable birth ever known in the history of accouchment occurred at or near SalesvUle, Ohio, on last Monday night. Mrs M'Cormick gave birth to five healthy children—four boys and one girl. The medical works have but few instances of such wonderful births, and when they do occur the children have scarcely been known to live. • In this case the mother and children in the common language on such occasions, are "doing well." The community there is excited, and the famous father is the hero of all the country around about. His home is already an object of pilgrimage for all the old woman of the region. Two births, of four children have occurred within the last fifteen years near this region. The Afghans, who constitute an important constituent of the Bengal mounted troops at Malta, are tall, sinewy, slim, very active, and possesing immense power of endurance, forming the beau-ideal of irregular troopers. Their features are of a distinctly Hebrew type, and this trait, together with the common occurrence of Jewish names amongst them formerly induced a belief that they descended from the lost tribes of Israel. For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt.]