The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 676, 27 November 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1878.

The San Francisco mail arrived from Hokitika by coach-- last evening and' through the prompt attention of the postal authorities it was immediately sorted and delivered, as although after the usual window delivery here, the postmaster very Courteously gave out any letters that were applied for. The friends and supporters of the two gentlemen contesting the Mayoralty honors were energetically employed during the day in canvassing for their respective candidates and from general rumour at the time of our going to press the election bids fair to be one of the closest character as regards the numbers polled on each side. From our telegrams it will be seen that our Wellington friends who to-day are engaged in an election of a similar character are far more demonstrative, and that the greatest difficulty occurs there in entering the polling booth. The Wellington candidates are Mr Joe Dransfield and Mr William Hutchison. An election will be held on the 12th of December, if necessary, to elect three qualified persons to act as members of the Arahura Road Board. Nominations of candidates must be made at the office of the Board at Stafford Town at noon, on Monday the 2nd proximo. The various polling places appear in our advertising columns.

We acknowledge receipt, from the Government Printer, of a copy of the StaUtes of New Zealand, passed last session. Mr Charles Kleens’s tender for the delivery of the mails weekly* between Arahura and Teremakau, has been accepted by the Postmaster-General.

For the convenience of witnesses and others engaged at the District Court, Mr John Cameron will run a special coach, leaving the Empire Hotel at half past six o'clock sharp to-morrow morning, thereby enabling those who leave by it to have an hour in town before the opening of the Court.

j As Dr. Giles will visit this town toi morrow re the cancellation of the Education Reserve, it is highly desirable that I the depndation recently appointed should 1 meet him on arrival and accompany him ■ over the Reserve.

' Parties who have not paid their yearly : rents due to the Education Board will , have an opportunity offered them this evening of so doing, as the Secretary to the Board will be in attendance at his office for that purpose. Mr Anthony Trollope, in the Nineteenth Century, gives his impressions of Iceland , in a light and lively fashion ; and it will gratify our New Zealand friends to know that, having seen the geysers in the North Island, ho was by no means impressed by the less beautiful and less imposing hot spring of Iceland, Gallant Lord Ho We, who fell in Abercrombies’ disasterous expedition against 1 Ticonderng.i in 1758, has had a granite , shaft to his memory unVieled on the spot

where he died. The Rev. Joseph Cook, the historian of Ticonderoga, secured the erection of the monument, and delivered the dedicatory address. M. D. Conway, of London, has been airthorised to offer £1,600 toward the college education of women at Oxford, provided a similar sum be subscribed by other parties. It is likely to be raised tery soon.

The centte of gravity was so nicely calculated at the raising of Cleopatra’s Needle that, when they got its iron jacket on and it was raised by the trunnions, it balanced exactly, and one man could swing the great mass of two hundred tons.

A phenomenal man has recently turned up in Dublin, Ireland, who beats the man who had the power to make his heart move to different parts of his body, as he can make his eyes retire into his head to the depth of three inches, where they remain as long as he wishes, glowing like coals of fire, tod presenting a horrible appearance. In spite of this accomplishment, which might be thought ruinous to the eyes, his sight is splendid.

The English and American Governments are petitioned through the instrumentality of the International Congress on Weights, Measures and Coins, to consider the adoption of the metric system. For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page. [AdVt.]