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Kumara Times, Issue 811, 7 May 1879, Page 4

Tke . contract wiih the Pompei Opera Company has : been broken in Auckland, and the company left : without any means ot returning to their homes in Sydney. Ah old;settler named. Walker, resilin'* at Hampden, ii\ Otago, commuted suicide the other day by tying a bag of stones—■weighing about half a bund red weigh t—roa - d his neck and jumping into the Eakaia Cieek. The London Times states that a new army jTank, intermediate between the officer and ■the* non-commissioned officer, has been created by the long-expected warrant on promotion ip the Army Service Corps which was recently issued. The warrant-officers or conductors, as.they are called, will be selected: from the higher branches of noncommissioned officers, and will wear a uniform similar to thait of the officers ; but the patrol jachpt will be without lace, excepting the on the wrist. The rank will not entitliTthe owner to tbe military salute, and the be but;ss 6d per day, which is the'same as the allowance to sergeant-majors in the . r ame c'’rps; hut the position will be by many non-commissioned officers preferre i to an officer’s commission in the same corps with tbe dignity to sustain on 7s 6d per a ay. The Hobart Town Chronicle says "On Wendesday morning Mr R. F. Irvine, of Brisbane street, received by train f-om Deloraine, a splendid salmon trout, weighing 121b5,: and 2ft 4in in length. It .was the finest fish of the species we have ever seen in the Colony, and it would be difficult to find its equal in any country.”