The Rumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 991, 3 December 1879, Page 2

The Rumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1879.

llierc arc seven bags of mails including ihe Australian ones, on the Christchurch coach, but no passengers for here. The coaen was telegraphed as having - passed the Healey early this morning. hi ails for the Australian Colonies, per Claud Hamilton, close at Hokitika, on Thursday, at 2 p.nr. J.IIO Hospital Committee meeting which was to have been held last evening lapsed through a quorum of the members not being present. She was a good woman—a religious, conscientious being—who prided herself on possessing tire rarest-bred of poultry in the district; and she undoubtedly did, as the sequel will show. The fame of her celebrated cacklers having gone forth, a \\ ed-Riiown resident of Dilhuau’s Town, who is also a bird fancier of high degree, interviewed tiro good lady on this subject. After great difficulty, Ire succeeded in obtaining a sitting of the rarest and purest black Spanish fowl eggs, from which, in taking a fancy price tor, she assured him that the result would prove that fur genuine Spanish fowls hers could not be equalled in Madrid. The day that this wonderful offspring was to see the light was anxiously awaited by our Dillmau’s Town friend, and when the eventful morn arrived and he heard the chirpings of the youthful Spanish, rarities, his anxiety could no longer bo restrained. Passing bis hand under the fruitful hen, he seized the first young chicle’ lie could. lay hold of, but to liis horror and mortification found it pure mux-wade.' 1 The good lady .received a call from an excited individual on tlio same day. A e are requested by the Secretary of the Hospital Committee to acknowledge, on benalf of the funds of that, institution, the receipt of a cheque fur I*s, from Mr U. Lie welly u Richards", as a “ Barnwell” contribution. From the Kilmarnock Standard of the ■Ah (Sctobcr we learn licit ‘hr James Fergu.sson, t;ie late Governor of this colony, mis intimated to the chairman of the ruiith .•iyr.-nure Conservative Committee ms acceptance of the requisition presented 1o 1 1 i 111 to come I orw;ird as the Conservat;vu candidate for North Ayrshire in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. ' I he Prince of '.Vales has been presented with an American beehive. Mr Huge, who explained to his Royal Highness the method of operating the hive, nioveii ms hand aoout lor a little while among the swarm of live bees which he iir.d A’. 1 tl> nim, when tucy began to cluster about his right hand, assuming the shape auu appearance ox a huge bunch of grapes. '■ * e l-iU ' n worked amongst the bees with ins h it hand, and ;-v the word of command they began to sin!t ami settle upon i r , then placing a little tube made of gauze between ms teem, the boos began O' accumulate about bus fa c, and hang hue a long beard from Ids chin. He next coaxed the boos back into the hive. It is sa.id that the secret of Mr Hogo’s I'onirA over the boos lies in securing the ■ );i:-e, > v. men m Jiv lingo .s case was couun-A in a wnv tube, which all the bees i.’ilinveu from one •.•lace to another. •■-• mad a wiser, lately ga\’o an important decision at the Registration Court held in Millport, Scotland. John Kerr, King’s Cross, who paid pp lo ;; to the Duke of Hamilton fur rent, was rated by the assessor at xiO tits because of improvements maue upon tiro premises lay the tenant, i no Suomi said the question was a doubt* tul one, bin., as no was inclined to read the Act in a liberal spirit, be repelled the oojecuoii and kept Kerr's name on the

Toll. Had tl 10 decision been otherwise, a l:u-go number of people would have boon disfranchised in Arrau. A novel mode of escape was recently practiced by a Nihilist. A young woman named Olga Gobieslawska had been wanted for a long time by the police, wlien on July 25 the house at Moscow in which she had sought a refuge was discovered. The authorities determined to arrest on the following night ; but, unfortunately for them, some time in the afternoon they saw a balloon rising rapidly from the garden, which soon disappeared beyond the horizon. The balloon contained Mdllo Olga and two young men, and all efforts to capture the fugitives have since proved fruitless.