The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1020, 8 January 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1880.

! The Borough Council will hold their ordinary fortnightly meeting at the Town Hall this evening* During the visit of the Right Rev. the Bishop of Christchurch and his son the Ven Archdeacon Harper to this diocese, a sacred and secular concert will be given at the Theatre Royal, in aid of the Church o! England building fund. From the assiduous manner in which the rehearsals for this concert are being undertaken by the Vocalists and instrumentalists engaged therein, we have little doubt of it being a grand success. Irrespective, however, of the visit of the Bishop and Archdeacon as Minioters of religion we feel assured from the high esteem in which they are held in this district by all classes of every denomination-, and the fact that the latter as an old resident of this Coast was the recognised friend of the distressed as well as the affluent, their reappearance amongst us will be hailed with gratification by'the residents of the district generally. A license was granted yesterday by the special licensing officer, J» Mackay, Esq., to Mary Ann Ritson, for the Greymouth Hotel, Mr Guinne3S appeared for the

applicant, and hia Worship the Mayor and the Town Clerk strongly supported the application. We observe that the Rev. Father M'Caughey, ifttonjunctioA with the va- ; rious Roman Catholic minister* from the Coast, assisted the Right Rev. -Dr. Redwood, Lord Bishop of Wellington, -to lay the foundation stone of the Monastery of! Notre Dame des Missions of the Sacred Heart, at Christchurch, on Sunday morning last. The collection at the close of the service, including the donations made during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone, amounted to £530.

The Mount Alexander Mail of the 28th ult. states that a most lingular discovery was made by a ploughman of Mr. George Godfree, of Yapeen, last week, while ploughing some ground near the Old Eagle Farm, that was not cultivated • thi3 year. The plough turned up a whole colony of bees with their nests and hofiey. Furrow after furrow opened them out by the million, and the bushel, and the cart-load. They were not the usual honey or hive bee, but smaller, and their combs in some instances were a foot underground.