The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 667, 16 November 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1878.

The following nominations were received by the Returning Officer to-day, for the. Mayoralty liquors :- Mr, Edwin Blake, nominated by Messrs Oornfoot and O'Hara; Mr Peter nominated by Messrs C. Holmes and Delargy. The election will take place on Wednesday the 27th instant, at the Borough Council Chambers. ' .

Owing to the resignation of Mr Ancher as one of the membjers of the Borough Council, nominations for candidates for the vacancy will be received on and up to noon of the 26th instant, at the Council Chambers, and should a poll be necessary it will be taken on the sth of December.

We draw the attention of parties who are in the habit of using the footpaths in Seddon street for vehicles, now that the new road is open for traffic, to the 13th clause of the Borough Bye-Laws relating to streets and footways, which is as follows:—"Every person who wilfully, and without lawful excuse, rides or drives any horse or other animal, or drives or wheels any carriage, cart, or other vehicle, upon, along, or across any footway or any water channel or gutter herein called channel, by the side of any street, save in such case upon, and, by, or at some crossing to be made as hereinafter mentioned, shall forfeit a.'sum not exceeding five pounds." ... ..•

The 961 ounces. 7 pennyweights reported in" our telegrams on Thursday last as having been obtained at the Welcome Company's claim, Reefton, was, it appears, the product of 265 tons of stone, a fork night's crushing. A dividend of four shillings has been declared. The new County Council of Wostlahd will hold its first meeting on Wednesday week, the 27th inst. at 12 noon, at which time the election of the County Chairman will take place. The whole of the voting returns for the Grey. County election, are now in. MiHarrison has a total majority for the Cobden Riding of 20, the voting at Canoe Creek- being -.—Glennon, 30 ; Harrison, ,10. The detailed results are—Oobden : Harrison 68 ; Glennon, 21; Ten-Mile : Harrison, 2 ; Gennon 9 ; Canoe Creek : Harrison, 10; Glennon, 30. The Council now consists of Messrs Guinness, Taylor, Faulkner, Foley, Harrison, Ellis ; Marshall, Reedj and Clifford, the first four of whom were members of the previous Council.

The first prize of £ISOO in Mr Cameron's (Dunedin) £4OOO sweep on the Melbourne Cup falls to Mr M'Donald, a fellmonger, the £SOO prize to Mr Maitland, of Oaniaru, and the wife of a publican in Walker street tlie £250, or third prize. In Mr. Dodson's £IOOO consultation, Calauiia wa3 bought for £32 10s, and the same horse in another large sweep' for £2O, the buyers now have a profit of £2OO each upon their bargain. The second prize in Mr Dod3on'sgoes to a well-known City auctioneer, and the third prize to a resiof Port Chalmers.

The p.s. Charles Edward arrived at Hokitika, from Nelson and Westport, yesterday. An ex-member of the North Dunedin Rifles who had been struck off the rolls for non-attendance at drills was sued by Captain Reeves in the R.M. Court for the value of his uniform, which he had . refused to deliver up when called upon to do so. His refusal was based on the ground that he had been in the Company for four years, and his capitation allowance more than represented the value of the uniform. His Worship held that with the Volunteer Act and the Volunteer Regulations the uniforms of the Company vested in the captain, and accordingly gave judgement for Captain Reeves in the amount claimed, together with costs. . The Wellington special correspondent of the Dunedin Morning Herald says : —lt is understood that the "phantasmagoria" of European news, of which Sir George Grey made enigmatical mention in his reply to Mr M'Lean, is in course of completion and is to assume the shape of daily cablegrams of news from Europe for the benefit of the Government advertising sheets, and at the expense of the Colony.

In a Victorian Police Court the other day a cheap practitioner was amongst the tipsy watchhouse waifs, and was duly fined 55.. On the same morning, a little later on, he appeared on behalf of a client. After the rising of the Court, a highly respectable attorney, talking with the Chairman of the Bench, expressed his surprise at a man who had just been fined for drunkenness being permitted to appear in a case—at any rate, for that day. ' <Well," said the very practical magistrate, "I observed on the watchhouse sheet that .when his pockets were searched there was nothing "in them, and I thought I might as well let him earn as much as would discharge the fine I had inflicted. Otherwise we should never have got it." The. body of the missing Sergeant Kennedy, was found close by the camp where Scanlan and Lonlagan were shot. The body contained three bullet holes, and when found was scarcely recogniseable, being covered with blood and partly decomposed. The greatest excitement exists, and parties are out in every direction. A telegram was received from the police at Chiltern which stated that Kelly and three others had stuck up a man named Christain close to the Murray at daybreak, so they must be travelling at a pretty rapid rate.

At a dinner given by the Farrier's Company, at the Albion Tavern, London, the Queen's health was proposed, as follows : " Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and the Colonies, Protectress of Turkey, Administratrix of Cyprus, and Empress of India."

A Catholic priest at Warsaw has been sent to Siberia for a curious offence. As was'his duty, he read the Czar's declaration of war to his flock, and, not being able to speak Russian, read it in Polish. This was against the law and hence lite.transportation.

; At a late dinner party there were two sisters present, one a widow who had just emerged from her weeds, the other not long married, whose husband had lately gone out to India for a short time. A young barrister present was deputed to take the widow in to dinner. "Unfortunately, he was under the impression that his partner was the married lady, whose husband had just arrived in India. Tlfts conversation between them commenced by the lady remarking how extremely hoi, it was. "Yes, it is very hot," returned the barrister. Then a happy thought suggested itself to him, and he added, with a cheerful smile, "but not so hot as the place to which your husband has gone.'.' The look with which the lady answered this " happy thought" will haunt that unhappy youth till his death.

The Irish Times of August 10 states that Mr T. P. Fallon, the Alb: try vigneron, and a member of the Victorian Commission at the Paris Exhibition, recently submitted specimens of Victorian wine to Parisian experts, who pronounced the samples excellent. Mr Fallon also sent some cases of wine to the Marshal President, who graciously accepted them. It is hoped that a brisk trade will spring up between Melbourne and Bordeaux shortly. D. Davidson arid Co. beg to announce the arrival of the largest stock ever imported to the West Coast from the leading markets, comprising all the newest fashions in ladies' trimmed hats, and general.millinery, fancy dress materials, colored and black silk\ hosiery, and gloves, mantles, fischues, and umbrellas ; men's, youths', and boys' clothing ; straw and felt boots and shoe 3, &3. T!u goods have now arrived, and are open for inspection at the Berlin House, Sedd'on s treet, Knmara. —[Advx. ] For miraculous cures by the use of E • icalypti Extract, read fourth pate.— [ADVT.J °