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Kumara Times, Issue 944, 9 October 1879, Page 2

Ail adjourned meeting of the Hospital Committee was held at the Secretary's oiii-je last evening.; present—Messrs M'Kenzie (in the chair), Jilake, Campbell, Mausiield, Pearn, Brown, Marshall, Garquillio, O'Flaherty, Spyers, and Riley.

The resignation of the Laundress (Mrs Levick) was received and accepted, and the House Committee were authorised to appoint one in her place. The tender of Mr Galland for the erection of the morgue at the Hospital, for £l4, was accepted ; Mr Blake to inspect the work when finished. A list of drugs required for the institution was forwarded by Dr Achcson, and the Secretary was instructed to procure from Messrs Kcmpthorne Prosser and Co., drugs to the amount of £3O. Accounts to the amount of £SO 18s Gd were passed for payment. The sum of £lO for annual tickets sold by various members of the Committee was handed in. It was resolved in future to issue half-yearly tickets to those requiring them, at 10s each. The meeting then adjourned for a fortnight. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before C. Broad Esq., R.M., there were only a few unimportant civil cases of defaulting ratepayers, in which judgement was given for the amount claimed with costs.

All persons in receipt of moneys, the property of Westland County fund are requested in future to pay such amount into the Bank of New Zealand to the credit of such fund.

An opportunity is now coffered, to those engaged in oponing-up new reefs, at the Taipo und elsewhere, to purchase the ironwork of a perfectly new first-class tea-head battery, with 8-cwt. stampers; Other particulars appear in our advertising columns.

The following paragraph appeared in the' New Zealailder of the 3rd inst : " We hear from good authority that MiMasters, the junior member, for the Grey Valley, was hissed in the lobbies yesterday, and will be sent to Coventry for the rest of the session." The Wellington Post of the same evening's date states, in reference thereto, "Mr R. C. Reid. M. H. R., has to-day sent an ample apology for it to Mr Masters, and assured him that it would not have been published but for his omitting to call last night at the New Zealander'onice, of which he is the proprietor, Mr Masters is not the junior member for Grey Valley, but the senior member, having polled 104 votes over his opponent Mr Reeves. So far from being hissed, or sent to Coventry, every respectable member on both sides of the House sympathises with him under the attacks which have been made upon him, and respects him for the courageous way in which he has maintained his- independence. The ' good authority' referred to by the New Zealander is understood to be the veracious Mr J. C. Brown."

In his charge to the Grand Jury, at Auckland, Mr Justice Gillies made special reference to the Thames shooting affair. Neither he nor the' jury could shut their eyes to the fact that since the last sitting of the Court there had occurred serious outrages within that judicial district, the offenders in which had not been brought to justice, nor hardly any steps taken for that purpose. This they felt to be a very unsatisfactory state of affairs. So long as criminals were unpunished, and so lone as the strong arm of the law was paralysed by political considerations they could not hope for any feeling of security for the lives and properties of settlers. On the 3rd of August last the emigrant ship Euterpe, for Canterbury, 'New Zealand, was run into off Gravesend, by the Telford, s.s., from Colombo, doing damage to the starboard bow, injuring one man, carrying away the miszen boom, steering gear, poop, rail, etc.

Late Cape news states that in Natal great dissatisfaction prevails among all classes of the community with regard to the conditions of Sir Garnet Wolseley's settlement of Zululand. Everyone regards it as a perfect farce,and calculated to make Zululand the centre of continual disturbance and danger. Even those who disapprove of Cetewayo's deposition, are loud in asserting that if he was deposed a strong central Government under the British flag should be established in his place. The general conviction is that the Colonies must distinctly decline to have anything to do with this settlement, and repudiate it. When the Chimborazo left Adelaide on on her hist honiewardbound trip it was rumored that Ned Kelly was amongst the passengers. The detectives, making sure they had their man, tapped him on the shoulder, telling him that he was "'wanted." His language as he turned ro'-.nd was couched in vigorous and undeniable French, so the Kelly delusion was dispelled. It is said that the man is an escapee from Noumea, and had run away with another man's wife. He gave her the slip before reaching Port Said, and she says he took her money with him.

It cost the Pennsylvania Railroad £4OOO to remove snow and ice from the trades of the Pittsburg division, most of it on the " mountain sections," during the month of January last—a larger sum than for the whole of the years 1875, lS7u, 1877, and 1878.