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Kumara Times, Issue 1020, 8 January 1880, Page 4

. Negotiations of an important character have been completed between the New Zealand Accident- Insuiance Company. The latter has undertaken represent them, .'giving to the Accident Company the use of their branch management, agency, staff, and officer in New Zealand and all the Australian This advantage to the New Zealand Accident Insurance. Company has caused thcr shares to be in demand A "new chum" ; »rrived by the Lutterworth finds himself in an unpleasant predicament. It appears that, on leaung England he was about to be married to a lady to whom he was engaged, and the banns had been proclaimed twice when the vessel sailed. The couple, so it is said, then made up their minds to dispense w th the ceremony at any rate till their arrival in the : Colony, bnt came out in the vessel as man arid wife. On their arrival the young woman '' went off with another swain, and now the -' lucklesß new chum wants to get back th 9 130 he paid for the lady's passage, and 12s 6d, the cost of putting up the banns. The NewZealander says :—The man who, on the right of the Masonic ball, found and ' restored to< its owner the gold bracelet, valued at over a hundred guineas, whi h Fas lost by Lady Robinson near the entrance to St George's Hall, has received the sum of IPs as » rej*«r4iorhiß honesty.