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Kumara Times, Issue 643, 19 October 1878, Page 2

.The present state of the weather augers somewhat unfavourably for the attendance at the special services to be held to-morrow at the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches, in aid of the Kumara Hospital. Should, however, the elements stilt continue in the same, watery condition, there lean be but small excuse oh those grounds as the means of transit , to the respective churches, in cases where required, can, be easily obtained, r. and, we .’trust that'the Hospital Sundays of this town will, from a pecuniary point of view, bear favorable ifcbiiparison in proportion to the inhabitants, with any held; in the colony. The \Rev. dS. A'. Scott wiUjofficiate.in.the English and the Rev. Heniiingham Root, of • Greymouth, in the Presbyterian Church, both iiioming and evenings , By a notification given under the hand of the Chairman of the Arahura.Road Board, it will be seen that all rates not paid .at Mr Queale’s .office on before; the 22nd inst., will, after that date be sued for. Creditors in the estate of Rohloff and Brauer, can have their first and final dividend on application to Mr S. S.. Pollock, Main street; ’ r - 1 At a meeting of the Hokitika; Borough Council, held last evening, Mr Cross moved “ That this Council respectfully impress on the General Government the ; des&abilfty ?! of authorising the necessary survey, during ! the recess, of a line of railway to connect • the East and West Coasts Of’ this island, "j by way of the Taipo and Wakamariri;’.’ ,| The motion was seconded by Mr Walker ; 1 blit, after a discussion, the resolution was | withdrawn for a week, as in the meantime i it is supposed the Hokitika and Greymouth Railway question would be settled. 1

At the Christchurch sessions on Wednesday one of the prisoners called a number of witnesses who testified in high terms to his character. Immediately the police proved the man to have been-con-victed of drunkenness and. larceny. Judge. Johnston thereupon took occasion to remark that the practice was. too common of people coming into Court and giving a man a good character, without any knowledge as to whether he had sinned against the community at large or not. The prospectus has been issued of a Cbm Exchange and Public Hall Company at Oamaru, with a capital of £12,000, in 600 shares of £2O each.

The founder of “Cobb and C 0.,” unlimited and everywhere, is no more (writes “ vEgles- in the Australian). Freeman Cobb came to Melbourne at the end of 1852 or beginning 1853, with George Mowton, to form a branch of Adams and Coi, famed in the United States as express carriers. Melbourne was not ripe forthat business, and Mr Cobb who had expresswaggons with him,, bought horses and commenced that poaching system which has made Cobb and Co., famous over the Australian Colonies. After living in-America for. some time the old spirit of enterprise was aroused in him, and he went to the South African gold-fields, and started Cobb .and Co. there—and there he died, Adams i and Co. brought with them the two first buggies landed in Australia. The best friend. I ever had bought one of them, and Mowton kept the other. The good people of Melbourne were highly amused at the notion of those light spider-like vehicles travelling oyer bnsh roads. But the buggies survived the ridicule. - The Mexican Minister of the Interior has ordered the purchase of 50,000 eucalpytus trees to be planted in and about the city of Mexico.

Herr Arnold, the" Court painter, has | been ordered by the German Emperor to ! pa'mt ft large picture of the Congress for i for the Royal Palacd. j ... An action for breach of promise was ! brought against a farmer named Stock by i the daughter of a grocer, at the Liverpool j assizes recently. Judgment had been allowed to go by default, and the only j question was as to damages! The plaintiff said she had “kept company ” with the | defendant since 1864, and the result had i been the birth of four children, for two of j which she had obtained affiliation orders ! against him. He had promised to, marry her from time to time, but in May last he ceased to pay her any attention. Upon i being threatened with legal proceedings, ! he got a neighbor to write to the plaintiff asking her to stop them, and directing her to Matthew v. 7.—“ Blessed are the/ merciful : for they shall obtain mercy. ” The plaintiff said she did not take proceedings against him sooner “because she ; loved him, and because she thought he I loved the children. ” ’ The . jury gave her', £6OO damages.

M. B. Roller, of Paris, has brought out in Hebrew the history of the Franco-Ger-man War, and the two iseiges of Paris in 1870 71. Dr. Janies S. Meyer, of Virginia City, Nevada, claims to have discovered the secret by means of which the ancients were able to make tools and weapons of bronze and copper of a temper superior to that of the best stpel. The first lady lawyer in Switzerland who has ever obtained the degree of Docteur en Droit has just successfully passed her examination. Mdle. Fanny Serline comes from St. Petersburg, and has been studying at the .Berne University. At the Uttoxeter Petty Sessions, John Bates, a jockey, has been prosecuted by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cruelly spurring a horse ridden by him in the Uttoxeter Steeplechases, recently held. It was proved that on the arrival at the winning post the animal’s sides, over several square inches, were covered with bipod. Bates was fined £ll3s fid, or one month in default.

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