The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 968, 6 November 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1879.

A meeting of the Local School Committee was held at the Town Hall last evening ; present—Messrs Campbell, (in the chair), Wylde, Munyard, Drummond, Bain, and Mulloy. An application from Miss Cornfoot to leave the School, after hex examination took place, as she was desirous of proceeding to Wanganui, was acceded to by the Committee, who strongly recommended the Central Board to grant the application. After a long discussion it was resolved that the evidence taken by the sub-committee appointed to investigate the charges made against one of the staff of the School, together with the various documents relative thereto, should be forwarded to the Central Board for their consideration and decision, the Com-

uiittee making no recommendation in the case. A deputation of the inhabitants of Westbrook attended and stated their grievances in regard to the non-completion of the School there as promised by the Central Board. As there has been evidently a misunderstanding between the Chairman of the Central Board and residents of that township, the claim of the letter was forwarded to the Board; with the request that the matter should be at once arranged, so that the Westbrook School could be immediately opened. The Committee then adjourned; The report of the proceedings of the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning is held over till to-morrow. The Secretary of the Kumara Hospital requests ns to acknowledge, on behalf of that institution, the sum of £5 5s Gd received as contributions from Mrs Tait and Mrs Levack. This amount was collected in small subscriptions by these two persons for the benefit of Alary Anne Smith, but as she recently died in the Hospital, the amount was handed over forth e benefit of that institution. Although admitting it is a delicate operation to interfere between man and wife in domestic broils, one of the most novel methods of effecting this object emanated from a witness in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning. In testifying to the manner in which a defendant beat his “better half,” he said “She appealed to the audience present for mercy, ” and as he (tire witness) was frightened something serious would ensue, he interfered by leaving for the Police Camp, a distance of oyer a mile, to bring up an officer for that purpose. The second horse in Mr Gilbert Stewart’s Sweep was not drawn, as stated last evening, by Messrs Cameron and Morse, although we made the statement on what should be considered the most reliable authority. Mr Stewart has now opened a Consultation on the great Champion Race, which will be run on the Flemington Course, near Alelbourne, on New Year’s Day. Interests in this event can be obtained of the same agents as in Air Stewart’s late Consultation. A special telegram from Sydney to the Dunedin Star, on the Ist inst., states that “ Chester has been scratched for the Alelbourne Cup and all other engagements.” A writer in the AVhitehall Review,refers to the Agent-General and his candidature for the representation of Falmouth in the following terms “ Sir Julius Vogel, after giving a series of political dinners at the St. Stephen’s Club which were greatly enjoyed by those privileged with invitations, has now taken up his residence at Falmouth with Lady Yogel, no doubt with the object of getting better acquainted with what he hopes may become his future constituency. For my part, politics aside, I trust Sir Julius will succeed in his candidature. As Premier of New Zealand, as well as since in England—if only by his contributions to the Nineteenth Century— Sir Julius has shown himself a man of mark and ability, and it is most desirable that representative men of his varied experience Should have seats iu the House. Sir Julius has exhibited his usual acumen in taking Lady Yogel with him ; for after all ‘men are women’s men,’ and it certainly cannot do a candidate harm to have a handsome, charming, and clover woman at his elbow.” An outrage, recalling the sensation scene in “After Dark” is recorded in a Peruvian paper : —The Commissary of Bellavista reports that on the night of August 27, a man of the name of Robert Hunter was discovered on the railway track, close to Bellavista, tied to the rails, in which position he had been left by three men, who, after robbing him of all the valuables he had about his person, left him to be run over by the next train, on the principle apparently that “dead men tell no tales.”