The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 639, 15 October 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1878.

At the Magistrate’s Court to-day before R. J. Seddon, Esq., J.P., a woman named Ritchie was fined 10s, or 24 hours’ imprisonment in default, for drunkenness. The same prisoner was dismissed with. a caution, for using obscene language in a public thoroughfare. An adjourned meeting of persons interested in the success of the Cricket Club was held last evening, at Rugg’s Kumara Hotel. Mr Hamilton was voted to the chair, and explained that the Committee had visited the ground kindly given by Messrs Keech and Molloy, and that if a small sum was expended on it, the Committee were of opinion that it could be made to equal, if not surpass, the ground used last year. The report of the Committee was unanimously adopted, and two men were authorised to be engaged at once on the work. A letter was read from the Secretary of the Greymonth Cricket Club, containing a challenge to play a match at Greymouth on the Prince of Wales’ Birthday. After some discussion the Secretary was instructed to acknowledge the letter, but at the same time to state that no definite date could be arranged at present. As the clearing of the ground will considerably exhaust the slender funds of the Cricket Club, and as in so doing the Committee are also conferring a benefit on the residents of the town who may require the ground on some future occasion, it is to be hoped that the inhabitants will assist in this desirable work by giving a donation, however small, to the funds in aid of carrying out this The loca^omnte^^wu^P^R^fl^^fl Public Hall this evening, at 8 o’clock. ; In 'cnnscqucncw—of the inclemency of' the weather last -Saturday debarring many well-known shots from competing in the match for the selection of a team against Hokitika, the whole matter will be reconsidered this evening, and definite arrangements will, we understand, be made to ensure the team being composed of thoroughly reliable marksmen. By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that Mr H. Burger, of this t#wn, has been compelled through ill health to proceed to Melbourne for medical treatment, and from his well-known character, we feel assured that the support he solicits, on behalf of his wife during his absence, will be accorded him by the public as heartily as heretofore, and that j with us, they will be glad to hear of his recovery, and to welcome him on his return. In the District Court at Greymouth yesterday, his Honor Judge Weston granted discharges in bankruptcy to Roulston and M'llroy and David Beatty, and suspended the certificates of Wilhelm Wilson and i John Melican, both of Kumara, for three ■j calendar months. j For the information of those persons [ who require tickets in Tonks’s Sweep on j the Melbourne Cup, we are requested to j state there are a few remaining which are | to be obtained at Peters and Ehler’s | Hotel, Dillman’s Town. Attention is directed to the summer stock of tweeds and broadcloths lately received by Mr T. Adams, Main street. The prospectus (says the Otago Daily Times) of the New Zealand Railway Waggon Company (Limited) has been issued. The capital of the Company is to be £IOO,OOO in 10,000 shares of £lO i each, and the object of the Company is : to supply the great and increasing want I of rolling stock on the Government raili Ways, on a principal similar to that i adopted by the waggon companies in Engi land. The chief business of the Company [ will be the building of railway and tramj way rolling saock of every description, and j selling or leasing the same to the Goj vemment, private companies, or individuals. The Anchor line steamer Europea, 227 I tons, bound from Bombay to Liverpool, 1 was sunk by a collision with the Staffa | steamer, near Ferrol, on the 17th ultimo, j the Eilropea had a very valuable cargo of ! Eastern produce. j The English steamer City of Waterford i ran into and sank the French steamer i j Moselle, off the Spanish Coast. Two j | stokers perished. A schoolmaster, his wife, two assistant teachers, and 13 children have been drowned by the upsetting of a boat in Lough Sellan, County Cavan. The accident was seen from the shore, but help could not be given in time. Among the leading classes in Bulgaria a movement is on foot for issuing a medal commemorative of the late wav, and recording the nation’s gratitude to the Czar ' for thoir liberation.

The London corporation are aboift to convert St. Paul’s Church-yard into a garden. The French Minister of Marine has received a telegram from the Governor of New Caledonia confirming the news of the insurrection and jmassacre in that island. The number of victims is eighty-nine, including Colonel Passebose ; but the Governor adds that he is master of the situation. A partial strike of the Paris cabmen has just commenced. The men put forth a number of demands against the company, the principal of which are a reduction in the sum they are required to earn daily, better treatment for the horses, which have only sawdust, generally in a state of putrefaction, for their litter ; a reform in the management of the relief fund, abolition of imprisonment for infractions of the regulations, and* the right to bargain with the public for the rate of their fares. Mayfair is not surprised to hear that one result of the recent Treasury prosecution has been to give rise to a renewed agitation among the Civil Service writers. There can be no doubt that some of these are wretchedly paid for their labour. Ostensibly hired for copying work only, a •large proportion perform duties of a responsible nature, and in many instances similar to those for which established clerks receive £3OO or £4OO per annum. In reply to a recent memorial addressed to the Treasury, the Government contemptuously told the writers to refuse to do responsible work when pressed upon them ; but anybody who has any idea of life in a public office knows that this course of action is utterly impossible.

For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt.]