The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 937, 1 October 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1879.

Notwithstanding the severe weather of the last two days the Christchurch coach passed the Bealey at the usual hour this morning with four bags of mails, but no passengers for Knmara.

With the largely increasing population at Westbrook it has been found necessary to erect a new school for the accomodation and instruction of the children of the residents of that locality, and as the" Westland Board of Education contributed only a poi'tion of the amount required for the building means have to be adopted to furnish the balance. With this end in view a grand ball will be given at the Theatre Royal, on Friday evening next, which, considering the object and the small charge for admission, should be well attended.

To-day about noon a most unusual appearance pervaded the whole town as from the Post Office in Main street to the English Church in Seddon street there was hardly a doorway that was not graced by members of the fairer sex. That an event of more than ordinary interest was about to take place could be easily surmised from the expectant faces ef the gentle awaitists. When, however, a carriage containing two well-known residents who had a few minutes before been joined in “ holy wedlock” appeared on the scene, the object of the door obstructionists was clearly and practically defined in the running fire they kept up on the bridal party of old “ leathers” in which heelless shoes and soleless boots formed the chief ammunition. From subsequent information we are glad to learn that the bridal party escaped without any serious injuries, although some of the “ wish you luck” projectiles hurled at them would have made decent sized portmanteaus.

In another column appears a list giving the rates chargeable for water from the Waimea and Kuraara water-races. Inadvertently this statement was made in our last issue, although the advertisement only appears to-day for the first time. The following is an instance of the liberality of the Prince of Wales, During a recent match at Jersey, in which the Hildegrade, yacht of the Prince of Wales, was competing, one of the crew lost his life. With that kindness of heart which is one of his leading characteristics, His Royal Higness has directed an annuity of £24 a year to be paid to the deceased’s widow, witd an extra sovereign at Easter and at Christmas and as also ensured the education of her children.

An American exchange writes :—lt is all wrong to let our church choir go off in the opera of “Pinafore” between Sundays. A dreadful thing recently happened on this account at a Californian funeral. The pastor, a tall, white-haired man, much resembling an admiral, rose in his

pulpit, and no sooner finished in a singsong tone the rematk, “ we iniss his presence in his usual haunts, ” than the choir sprang to their feet and shouted in return, ‘ ‘ and so do his sisters, his cousins, and his ftunts.” This is one of the popular refrains in “ H.M.S. Pinafore.”