The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 623, 26 September 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1878.

We heartily commend the report of our mining reporter, which appears in another column, to the special notice of the Prospecting Association, as some of the remarks it contains, are justly entitled to their serious consideration.

The special’meeting of the Westland County Council which Was called for yesterday afternoon for the purpose of rescinding the resolution re the deviation of the railway line and the compensation to the . Dillman’s Town Tramway Company, was adjourned for a fortnight. This was occasioned by the absence of Mr Hirter lr * whose name the first motion was tabled, but as the object of the meeting was a ß*i ns t the interests of the residents of the inland towns generally, the adjournment, under the circumstances, was probably the wisest course, as by the next meeting members may see matters in a different light, and vote accordingly. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this Thomas Keiran was charged with making use of profane language in q public throughfare. After several .witnesses had been heard relative to the language used, the defendant who evidently suffering from recent potations, was for constantly interupting the Court locked up until 2 o’clock. On the case

being resumed at that hour the defendant ; asked for an adjournment for a week to enable him to call his daughter as witness for the defence. The Resident Magis; r vte granted the application, the_defend vnt being bound over in one surety of £2O to appear next Thursday when called on. . Mr W. Nicholson has been appointed agent for the Taipo Quartz Mining Company. Forms of application and shares can be obtained at his office. i The quotation of a rose by any other, name would smell as sweet is thoroughly inapplicable in the case where a duck without a head is concerned. When the mutilated body of the unfortunate waddler was produced in Court this morning, the smell although gamey was some degrees above high and if it only exhibited the same fragrance in life, its death will not be mourned by those with whom it came in contact.' - -' In order to make all things as nearly equal as possible, it has-been arranged for every alternate couple in the chess tourney (according to, the in which their names appeared in our yesterday’s issue) to have first move. The games in the match will therefore be commenced by the* following ;—Mr Palmer’s side : Messrs Ball, Kennedy, Gill, Holst, M. Bell, Nioholason ; Mr Janion’s side ; Rev. E. A. Scott, Messrs Smart, Toms, Morgan, T. Green, Janion. Players are requested to arrange for board and pieces for their own game. Lawyers no doubt are as a rule a specially-privileged race, and the amount of latitude allowed to their sayings are often envied by others. An instance of this occurred in the headless duck case in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, when the counsel for the defence, ■ forgetful no doubt of his better half, complimented one of the fairer sex on her .leaving the box, as a pretty witness. We meed only add the recipient graceful smiled on her learned admirer. ■- - Mr Manlon, the late mine manager of the D’Urville island Copper Mine," "has'. Issued, his second report ,te. the-directors, in .which he states, that the prospect of ! tlie ; mine have been from time to time varied. and changeable,. as . the -lode has been cut out by the existence of hard rock intersecting,but he finds that in depth. it assumes a mote permanent' and most'promising appearance. Under the heading' “ An lionorable'appeal," the Wellington Chronicle says:— The Bishop of Nelson has taken a somewhat extraordinary course in addressing a letter to Si'r j George? on the probable - results of the Public Works policy of his Government if it be carried out to the exclusion; of Nelson and Marlborough’inite'reats.: The letter is most ably written. There is not a touch of the abject'in' ifi, but the| whole tenor of the communication -is while most earnest .in its deingmdi?, most dignified in its address. It doth “ a plain, unvarnished tale”, .unfold, .and.appeals to Sir George’s sense of high honor te fulfill the promises he made when he ' ’The steepest gradient in Victorian rail* ways m 1 in 40.; in. New Zealand, the steepest is 1 in 15. ‘ - The Japanese Government has been -busying itself lately inquiring into the merits of our colonial sheep, with the re- , suit that a large order has been sent to Australia and new Zealand for ewes and wins. Speaking of the sheep sent, a Sydney paper says “ Perhaps the gems of the consignment are a lot of grand Lincoln rains, selected from the flocks of i 7 ■® Canterbury, New Zealand, whose sheep will surely make a great name, by the help of these now being D sent to tho Flowery Land as representatives, for they are really a good lot." Scipio said that “ a valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citian k° destroy a thousand enemies.’’ Gqllah on a similar principle, destroys the thousand pains of rheumatism! sclatida, 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.] For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page. -