The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1021, 9 January 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1880.

A meeting of the Borough Council was held in the Town Hall last evening ; present—His Worship the Mayor (in the chair), Councillors Campbell, Pollock, Blake, O'Hagan, and Hanna. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A letter was read and received from Messrs Toms and Carey, who complained of a nuisance that existed in Main street in the shape of a number of disorderly houses, frequented by Chinamen. It was resolved that the attention of the police be called to the houses in question, and that the letter of Messrs Toms and Carey relative thereto be forwarded to the police for that purpose. As there was no other business the Council adjourned. The mail coach which left Christchurch this morning for Hokitika may be said to be most ecclesiastically loaded, as, besides the Bishop 'of Christchurch and the Ven. Archdeacon Harper, the Rev. Fathers M'Caughey, Martin, and Ecuyer, are also passengers. It is to be hoped on this occasion that Tommy Power and Arthur Davis will not find it necessary to urge 'the speed of their teams by words profane.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this "morning, before E. Barff, Esq., J.P., •Annie Williams was brought up on a warrant charging her with assaulting David WilKams on the Tfcli inst., by striking him with a sewing machine, as also throwing a tomahawk and carving knife at him. The complainant applied that the defendant might be bound over to keep the peace. After hearing the evidence, which disclosed the fact that the complainant, who was under sureties to keep the peace, was constantly harassed by the defendant with a view to make him break it, and also that a part of the sewing-machine she had thrown had entered his hand, inflicting a serious wound, and incapacitating him for werk, the Bench bound the defendant over in two sureties to keep the peace for six months, the Bench remarking that although the complainant was bound over to keep the peace on his own recognizances, in this case the defendant being a married woman, would have to find other sureties for her good behaviour. The annual class-firing of the local Rifles will commence to-morrow, when the third class will be fired through by one sijuad at 6 a.m., and another at 2 p.m.

A handicap sweepstake was fired at the butts last Saturday, Vol. Marshall with a score of 71 taking first prize ; Lieut Munyard, with 70, the second ; and Vol. Ooutts, with 67, the third. The first two men received no points in the handicap, the latter, however, received 8 pointsj Owing to our not receiving a return of the firing we are unable to give the scores in detail as usual.

The result of the second contest for the vVestland County Chairmanship resulted yesterday in favor of Mr Lang, the member for the Kanieri. Had, however, Mr M'Whirter, one of the members for this district, recorded his vote in favor of Mr Seddon in the second ballot, instead of Mr Lang, we should to-day in all probability have had the pleasure of congratulating our local member on his accession to the chairmanship. An advertisement appears in the Timaru Herald on the Ist inst. calling on all Orangemen and sympathisers to assemble at noon and walk in procession. A crowd gathered in front of the Town Hall, where the procession was to start from, only to find the entrance placarded with notices signed by the Mayor, calling on Her Majesty's peaceful subjects not to assemble, and from the Master of the Orange Lodge, intimating that the resolution of the Lodge declared that the Orangemen shall not walk, and requesting its observance. There was no attempt at any procession or demonstration beyond a few men wearing marigolds in their button-holes. It is said that the Orangemen intend to have a grand gathering of the Order from ail parts of the Colony a few months hence, when they will be sufficiently strong to march without the protection of the police or the assistance of independent citizens;

The Sydney Morning Herald, of . the 9th ultimo says ; —" Pastor Clriniquy lectured in the Richmond Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening. The church was densely crowded and many were listening outside. Although the address lasted nearly two hours, the interest was unflagging. As Mr Chiniquy was on his way home, in Cameron and others, they were assailed with a shower of rotten eggs, which, however, missed the mark, and did no harm, except, to the throwers. '"*'*':, The Freemason says : —lt is interesting to note that in February next there will be five Sundays. This fact occurs but three times in-a century. Thus, after 1880, we shall have to wait until 1920 before the shortest month in the year oan again have five Sundays. ,-

As Mr Duncan M'Lean, of Greymouth, is relinquishing the wholesale business, heads of families and others can enjoy the same facility at the Kumara branch of laying in large supplies of groceries, &c, for cash, as he is determined to give the consumer the benefit of the large purchases made prior to the increase in the tariff.—[Advt.]