The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 903, 22 August 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879.

In consequence of their not being a quorum of members present last evening, the meeting of the Borough Council was adjourned for a fortnight. The English mail, via Suez, will arrive by the Christchurch coach to-morrow afternoon, and we understand that the postal authorities have arranged with the Tramway company to detain the ordinary afternoon tram on hour, so as to enable the inhabitants of Greymouth to receive their letters the same evening. As the Immigration Officer for this district has lately received several applications to nominate immigrants from home, we are requested to state, to prevent any unnecessary trouble, that free immigration is now only open to single females, and that any person nominating a male adult will be required to deposit the sum 01 L 5 with xkti Immigration Officer when forwarding the nomination. The following genuine piece of wit and humour, which we can vouch for, actually occurred between a well-known engineer of this town and a transformed boniface. The engineer having occasion to visit the tunnel where late bomraee (but now miner) was working, and noticing thai the work had been taken in in the most sjiontitie manner, observed, ;t \Yhy, 'Pat, you arc a thnr. ,ugh ijio.-immc '." -; ik' )>!■' :;o\vi/' r..mo, ior its a U'aro man i am. my li .;*>/.'•

take place at Greynrouth, oh Thursday next. Those desirous of obtaining tickets may secure the few remaining ones on application to Mr Gilbert Stewart, or Messrs Peters or Elilers, Dillman's Town. A small bag of gold was found by the Police yesterday, near the Tramway station, the owner of which can obtain the same oii application at the Police station. We learn that the steamer Charles Edward, which has been detained at Westport during the past week, arrived off Hokitika at noon to-day; Mr Peter' Dungan notifies in another column his intention of standing as a candidate for the representation of this district in the General Assembly. The following description of a Zulu kraal, from an English paper, will be read with interest just now :—The military kraals of the Zulus deserve some slight description. They are, in point of fact, fortified depots where the various regiments assemble for their annual training, or mobilise in time of war. The kraal is usually about 500 yards in diameter, and fenced round with dry stake and wattled fence, about five feet in height, difficult to breach, and still harder to storm, as it is well surrounded by an abatis of prickly pear, bush thorns, and other obstacles. Inside this fence are thrown up the men's huts, and a smaller ring is generally erected in the centre, in which the cattle are kept. The king's kraal is Ulundi, almost in the centre of the country. Six regiments, numbering about 7000 men are quartered here permanently. Another important kraal is situated a few miles north of Rorke'a Drift. This was the head-quarters of Sirajo, a brother of Cctewayo's. It was burnt shortly after hostilities opened, and the chief's son killed in the engagement. Most of the other kraals are in the neighbourhood of Ulundi, so that the king is constantly enabled to inspect his troops.

One of the latests thing in photography is called tu-type, and a company—American, cf course—which have started in Sydney, are doing a very large business. By this new process you have twenty-five cartes de visite for the small sum of 2s 6d, and most of them are capital likenesses. It is quite a usunl thing now on meeting a friend to ask him to -exchange photographs, and instead of sending a visiting card with the compliments of Mr So-and so, you send a card with your photograph on it. The Hobart Town Mercury's correspondent says;—"Some idea of the number of people who have taken np this mania may be gathered from the fact chat at present they arc getting on the average 300 customers daily. The whole process is very quickly gone through."