The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 677, 28 November 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1878.

Our telegrams this afternoon announce another horrible massacre by the Natives of New Caledonia.

In consequence of Mr Price having to visit Okarito on magisterial duty, there Was no sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning. The two gentlemen who hold the office of Justice of the Peace in this borough were also both absent.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council will be held at the Town Hall at half-past seven o’clock this evening.

A meeting of hotelkeepers is convened for to-morrow evening, at the Clarendon Hotel, to take into consideration the advisability or otherwise of holding Christmas sports. It is to be earnestly hoped that the committee when formed will receive the hearty support of the public, thereby ensuing a good programme being provided for the Christmas holidays.

i The annual elections in connection with i the Good Templars took place recently. ! Several officers from Kumara visited Stafj ford to assist in the examination of ballot : papers. Captain Turnbull of Hokitika, and Mr Fergus Barrowraan, of Dillman’s, ; were elected Grand Lodge representatives ■ with Mr H. W. Sandle, of Stafford, and I Mr W. H. J. Potts, of Woodstock, as . alternate representatives.—Captain Turni bull was also elected District Deputy for ! the ensuing year. Members of the Grand I Lodge will meet in session at Nelson on | the 10th December next. ! A correspondent telegraphs the West i Coast Times the following further pari ticulars regarding the accident to the : Christchurch coach When crossing | the first ford in the Bealey this morning one of the fore wheels of the coach broke, and the fore carriage came away. The coach toppled over and was washed down the stream and smashed. The driver and i police constable have recovered all the ; mails except one bag for Greymouth. Search will be made for the missing bag , to-morrow. The mails will not reach ! Hokitika before Friday night at earliest.” ' An interesting little domestic scene in 1 which the “ better half” played the prin- | cipal part occurred within a hundred miles iof this office yesterday. Owing to one of ; those small irregularities that will happen in the best-regulated families, it was found ■ necessary on the part of the owner of certain property to distrain on his tennant’s : worldly effects, and with this end in view, ' a limb of the law was engaged in the person of a representative of a Representative, jto execute this sad mission. Armed with i the necessary legal authority he proceeded i to the house of the defaulter, and was met : by the offending tenant at the door, who, ■ not in the least discomposed, entered into ; a general conversation on the topics of the day with the man of law, and explained to him the comforts of being blessed with a good “ better half.” While thus engaged, • however, the very party alluded to had been busily employed in removing her’ goods and chattels by the back door and the appreciation of her services by the legal deputy on entering a few moments after can be better understood than described.

The Bay of Plenty Times reports a speech made by Alderman 31‘Arthur at a Presbyterian soiree. We quote a few sautinces ; I am sure t’ra Taurmiguwill soon become one of the uust prosper*

ous districts in New Zealand. You have, he said men of all denominations amoligst you. And why should it not.be so ? Are we not all striving to one end ? Look at Charles Wesley and Toplady ; they were of different denominations ; yet, did not the one write, ‘ Jesu, Lover of My Soul,’ and the other ‘ Rock of Ages f Ask yourselves, what is the chief end of man ? It is not to get money to die and leave to somebody else. I myself do not value money, except so far as it tends to promote Christaiu knowledge to those around me. One of the chief ends of man is to glorify and enjoy good. The true cause of England’s greatness and happiness has been her godly men and women, and her Bible ; and as long as she reverences the Bible, and is faithful to the trust reposed in her, the time for the New Zealander to sit on London Bridge and gaze on the ruins of that city will never Come. ” ,In January last, the firm of Stevenson and Coats, grain millers, of Glasgow, failed for over £IOO,OOO, the estate being sufficient to pay a dividend only of 10s 4d in the pound to the creditors. Sir Peter Coats, the father of one of the partners, has, however, come forward and paid all the creditors in full, with 5 per cent interest added to their debts. ”

The village of Kollmar, near Giuckstadt, in Holstein, which is situated in a district reputed for its healthiness, has just witnessed the diamond wedding or the 75th marriage anniversary of two of its 1400 parishioners. Two more diamond weddings are impending, and the last fourteen years have seen ten such celebrations there.

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