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Kumara Times, Issue 914, 4 September 1879, Page 2

Mr Reids Committee will meet at Mr Nicholson office this evening at 8 o’clock, and Mr Scddon at the Buck’s Head Hotel at the same hour, Mr R. J. Seddon, will address the electors at Dillmau’s Town this evening, and Mr Barft at the Adolpliia Hall, Kmnara. Mr Morris will address the electors at Greenstone, at S o’clock this evening, and Mr Reeves will address them to-morrow at noon at the same place. We understand that Dr Acheson, of Greymouth, will in all probability accept the appointment of medical attendent to the Kmnara Hospital. Messrs, Campbell, King, O’Hagan and Pierson were to-day nominated for the tnree vacant seats in the Borough Council. The election will be held on the 11th instant. A meeting of of the Borough Council will beheld at the Town Hill this evening at the usual hour. To prevent any mistake to-morrow, as a large number of electors are laboring under a misapprehension, we may state that the polling hours, for the election of the members to represent this district in the General Assembly, are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at all the booths in this, and the Grey Yalloy electorate. A young woman, of this town who had never learnt the art of cookery, being desirous of impressing her husband with her knowledge and diligence, managed to have tnc kitchen door ajar just as her lord came from the office and exclaimed loudly. “ Hurry nn, Eliza, do ! Haven’t yon washed the cabbage yet ? Here give it to me , where's the soap i”

li EET E ITS TELEG I{A MS. + ; [NEW ZEALAND PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1. With reference to a telegram from Athens, dated August 38. staling that the Porte had agreed to the protocol of the conference as a basis for n ego tuitions for settling the Greek frontier, it is now understood that the consent of the Porte will be the s'Abject of important reservations. St. Petersburgii, Sept. 1. Lnzarili', commanding the Turcoman expedition, is dead. Sept. 2. The Czar has arranged to meet the Emperor of Germany at Konnigsburg. London (in Cape News published 28th). It was hot trooper Harrison that the Duke of Cambridge censured, when releasing Lieutenant Carey from arrest, but Colonel Harrison, Acting-Quarter-mastev-iu General of General Woods’s col ti tii iv.

Sept. 1. Three Per Cent. Consols, 9Tf. The total qnan'ity of wheat ailoat for Great Britiau is .£1,750,000 quarters. At the wool sales to-day, 9500 bales were catalogued. The market is quiet. Rome, Sept. 2. The deficiency in Italian crops is 1 estimated at 50 per cent. [special.] London, Sept, 2. Prominent Home RuletS are stumping the southeren provinces of Ireland, addressing large and enthusiastic meetings, and greatly increasing the spirit of sedition. Large numbers of amnestied Communists have returned to Paris from New Caledonia, mostly in a deplorable condition, and clothed in rags, and in debiliated health.

[special to the globe, j London, August 26. Clarke j ined Sir G. Wolseldy at Ulundi on August 11th, The chiefs were submitting, but Getewayo vacillates. The prospects are cheering. The Quebec Legislative Council have rejected the Supply Bill, and have demanded that the Governor should change his advisers. [special to gloM] Sydney, Sept. i. The British Government are making an important meat preserving experiment. The emigr ant steamship Slrathlevyan is ffted with a large compart-' irient below freezing point. The experiment made is of interest to the colonies, as if successful the steamer will return to load Australian meat. Secundus was tracked for twenty thousand to win the Metropolitan.