The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. DECEMBER 14, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 691, 14 December 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. DECEMBER 14, 1878.

We are compelled to-day, through pressure of advertisements, to withold a large quantity of reading matter.

The drawing of Hughes's New Years Gift on the Champion Stakes, will take place positively on the 27th instant. Those requiring tickets will have to make early application to Mr Gilbert Stewart, as there are but few now remaining. Tenders are invited for providing two meals for 500 children on New Years Day. Tenders will close at 7 p.m. on Monday evening, before which hour they nmst be forwarded to the Secretary. Full particulars and specifications can be obtained from either Messrs Dungari or Dale.

Some Maori diggers frem the Thames, who were on board the Taranaki at the time of the disaster, say that if a native had been at the wheel or on the look-out the accident would not have happened. One of them declares he whispered to the man on the look-out that there-was land ahead ten minutes before the ship struck. The banquet held in Invercargill lately appears to have been a failure. The local times says :—Gossip was rife in the town on Saturday anent the temperance banquet on the preceding evening, and there was a general disposition to attribute the non-success of the dinner to the absence of that usual comcomitant of such proceedings—rosy wirie. Of several stories told respecting the affair one is worth repeating. A trio of worthy citizens, two of whom occupy prominent public positions, felt so keenly the depressing effects of. the teetotal dinner-and the insipid political platitudes of the speakers that, immediately on the conclusion of the proceedings, they went and got unco fou'," in order to restore their feelings to their norminal condition, of happiness. A. young Tasmaniau cricketer has been making his nuu;k in that coldny by severely niarking his comp.- nions. A contemporary say :—' Young Baily, like his brother, shines as a; truhdler.. His pitch his good, his delivery easy,. his tdfrlfjc ; and recently hi'ttie lmttcli Orielton v. -Clarence, he cut a bit out .of Braithwaitd's finger, bowled the sole clean out of Quitin's boot, cut Grant's temple, severed the 1 heel of Young's understanding; and. blackened both Rowland's eyes by his fearful shooters. Young Bailey is also stated to have a good break to the on _ and off. t We should think he could bi-eak anything ; arid would suggest that his team' ought to provide a surgeon as an emergency man.

By our Sydney file 3 just', to hand, we learn that a mail nanied Crawshaw arid his wife were tried at the Central Criminal Co irfc, Sydney, a few days .since, foi&rionl and after three days' trial found guilty a'ri'd sentenced to death. The trial created great excitement, as the prisoners had occupied a very respectable position at' Bombala. When the dreadful sentence was, pronounced, Mrs Crawshaw fainted and her husband burst into tears. The : judge stated that in reporting the case he would recommend a diminution of the punishment, as no lives were lost at the fire, and the female prisoner had given the first alarm. It is not generally known that any person setting fire to any building in which any human beings are contained, render themselves liable to be sentenced to death.

The New York Herald says :—Truth, and sometimes very sad truth comes from the lips of childhood. The best criticism of the times in which we are living was involved from the inner consiousness of a small boy. " Well, my child, what profession do you propose to follow when you grow up V He looked thoughtfully for a moment but all at once his eye brightened as he replied, "1 shall be a trustee, Sir." It seemed a somewhat indetinte selection for the boy to make, biifc the boy's mind was running on a straight track, and he knew precisely what he wiis after. " A trustee ? and why, my son?" "Because Sir, ever since father has been a trustee, we've hatt pudding for dinner and before that we hatt none."

j If every newspaper' ifclopte'd the plan of ! some American publications there would i ba fewer complaints about' unpaid subscriptions. The process is' probably rather painful to the subject, but it is certainly adapted to effect a cure.. This is the Way one of ; thehi serves an. individual named C.B. Thomson : : —" We haVe" taken out Thomson's ' ad' and insert this instead. We believe' hiui to be the biggest Dead i beat out of jail, and if his articles are no I more reliable than he is'thoy nfre'not worth I the cord if would take' to' halig them, i Thomson gets his living-by buying- goods

without paying for them, and getting his advertising in the same manner. Paying is no part of his religion, and. from his treatment of us we are justified in believing him to be one of the inost unscrupulous swindlers that has succeeded in keeping out of the Penitentiary. Pass him along." . Man says Victor Hugo, was the conundrum of the eighteenth woman is the conundrum of, the nineteenth century. An American editor adds. We can't gUess her, but will tiever give her up. No never. Thipse are bur sentiments, precisely. The Conundrum is one of those things which no male riiortal can hope to understand, but it is also ohe of those things to which a true man will stick till all is blue and ruinous. v Mr W. Willway having sold his plant and interest in the Dyeing Business to Mr R. Upjohn (who has become prac T tically acquainted with the trade)', begs to solicit the kind patronage hitherto afforded him to his successor.—Mrs Up John announces that she is prepared to clean and' dye hats, feathers, gloves, &c, in the best style. KB.—Gentlemen's clothes cleaned, dyed, pressed, and repaired on the premises.—Advt.