The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 799, 23 April 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1879.

In another column/,we publish the yearly audited balance-sheet of the Borough Council of Kumara, .and it is highly gratifying to learn from that source that after the large amount the Council has expended in the improvement of the town their finances are still in a satisfactory and solvent condition.

There is a large amount of business to be transacted at the Resident Magistrates Court to-morrow morning, including several cases of the Education Board against occupiers of sections in the Reserve, for arrears of rent.

The monthly inspection parade of the local Rifles was held by Lieut. Spence, at the Adelphia Hotel, last evening. There was a large number of absentees owing to many members being engaged on the night shift in their claims this week. The prizes won in the late District firing were presented to the successful competitors, Lieut. Munyard, and Privates Brennan and Sampson being the recipients.

It will interest the numerous friends of Mr VV. Barron, late agent of the Union -Bank here, to learn that he has been appointed Manager of the Colonial Bank at Lawrence, at a much higher salary than he received previously.

A Native (says a Taranaki paper) having got an impression that the local storekeeper whom he was dealing with was not charging him correctly, purchased a ready reckoner, and on the occasion of his next squaring up with the storekeeper, he was triumphantly enabled, as he thought, to point out several errors in the account. " Oh," said the astute tradesman, who knew there was not the slightest use in arguing with his dusky customer, " You've made a mistake, Jimmy, that's last year's ready reckoner." The Maori, admitting the justice of the argument, left sadly. Mr Frankßuckland, the English naturalist, gives an account of a splendid live beetle which Mrs Randolph Clay wears as a personal ornament :—The beetle has been in captivity seven months, but does not eat. He is attached to his mistress by a chain of gold, and will move about the drawing room table when the room is quite warm. The beetle was brought from Yucatan. The wing sheathes are of dead-gold, with ebony-black markings. In an Indiana church the best looking young ladies are selected to pass the contribution boxes, and there isn't a young man in the congregation that dare drop in a button.

Julius Blum, the Austrain Jew, whom toe Khedive has raised to the rank of Pasha and made Assistent Secretary of State, is said to be the first Jew who- has held so high a position in Egypt since the time of Joseph, of Biblical history. Mr W. Willway having sold his plans and interest in the Dyeing Business to Mr R. Upjohn (who has become practically acquainted with the trade), begs to solicit the kind patronage hitherto afforded him to his successor.—Mrs Upjohn announces that she is prepared to clean and dye hats, feathers, gloves, &c, in the best style. N.B.—Gentlemen's clothes cleaned, dyed, pressed, and repaired on the premises.—Advt.