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Kumara Times, Issue 993, 5 December 1879, Page 4

On September 30tb, the five directors of , the City of lasgow Bank, who have completed their term of eight months’ imprisonment, were liberated from Ayr gaol. They were let out one by one at an early hour in the morning in order to prevent anything like a demonstration. The first liberated waslnnes Wright, about half-past six. Then followed, at intervals of ha'f an hour, Tay. lor, Stewart, Salmon, and Inglis. The two latter drove off in a cab, with blinds down. The former all walked away, each in company of a friend, and left Ayr by rail. By the time the two last were liberated a considerable crowd hid col ected at the prison gate, and as they drove off the crowd hissed, but there was no further demonstration, Potter and Stronach are still in prison. According to the Timaru Telegraph the cost of the late general election, so far as the Colony is concerned, was stated in the House to be about L4OOO. The expenses cf last session—lasting about a month—reached nearly L 25.000. The Keep-it-Dark Company, during the week ended Saturday last crushed 174 tons of stone, with a re c ult of 4060zs lOJwts of amalgam. It being the monthlj cleaning up, the quantity of stone reduced for the week was under the average. The gold for the four weeks was melted on Monday* giving a total of 3030zi 17dwts. Two Mormon missionaries, Elders Bitt and Bailey, are endeavoring to obtain converts in the city of experimentaliam—Dunedin, Their initiatory discourse was attended by Spiritualists, Free Thinkers, Presbyterians, Homan Catholics, and representatives of the thousand and one different denominations existing in the Old Identity City. The Elders denied that the Mormons had anything to do with the Mountain Meadows massacre, that there was no such thing as a dram shop in 15 of their largest cities, which statement was received with applause ; they defended plurality of wives on the ground that it prevented vice and immorality. This latter statement was received with ironical cheers and laughter. At the conclusion, the Elders thanked the audience for the civil manner with which they had been treated, Friday night’s flood (sajs the Tnangahua Times) is reported to be the heaviest ever experienced at Boatman’s, The rain for six hours descended in torrents, raising tho creek to an unprecedented height, but fortunately no damage was done. During the night a tremendous land-slip occurred just above the machine, the noise of which quite terrified the neighborhood. It was found that an immense patch of tho mountain top had slipped away from the bed-rock, carrying with it scores of standing and fallen trees. The entire mass lodged in the creek beneath, locking up the flood for some time, but tho vast body of water pouring down soon overtopped it, and then followed f. r some hours a roaring cataract which swept everything before it. Fortunately, there wore no houses within reach of the flood, and beyond some damage to fencing, tracks, &c., no great harm was done.