The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1830.

Kumara Times, Issue 1034, 24 January 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1830.

A public meeting has been convened by his Worship the Mayor, at the Town Hall, on Monday next, to deal with the Kumara Education Reserve question, in accordance with the new Act of the General Assembly. From the very lucid and undoubtedly proper course recommended in this matter by Mr Seddon through our columns on the 14th inst., the conveners of the meeting should have but little trouble in framing resolutions suitable to the desired object in view. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board ill Hokitika on Wednesday last, Mr Clapcott’s application to purchase 200 acres of laud at Kumara was adjourned until next ■Board day. The annual meeting of the Committee of the Hokitika District, M.U.1.0.0.F., will be held at Kumara on Monday, the2Gth inst., when the election of officers for the ensuing year will take plhce and several important matters affecting the welfare of the district will be brought before the delegates. The Hokitika Lodge will be represented by P. P. G. M. Holmes; P. 0. S. Somerville and P.G. Webster, i'he Kumara Lodge by P.G. M'Kenzie and P.G. Palmer. A banquet will be held after the meeting at the Clarendon Hotel, tickets for which may be procured from any of the Committee. We learn that a large garden at the Greenstone, owned by Mr S. S. Pollock, of this town, and which contained a number of fruit trees bearing a most prolific crop has been utterly destroyed by some persons cattle obtaining access thereto, the fences having been first broken down. The damage is estimated at £4O, and the subject will probably shortly come before the Resident Magistrate’s Court. The West Coast Times’ Wellington correspondent says “he believes item 50 in the present Public Works Appropriation is intended for completing the track from Kumara through Dillman’s to the Christchurch road. Mr Seddon should look after this work and get its expenditure authorised early.” We have not the least doubt the hint will be taken and carried out with effect, We would draw the special attention of those requiring either a first-class drapery stodk, a good business, or an investment in mining or insurance shares, to the fact' that tenders for Messrs Davidson and Co. ’s business and all appertaining thereto close on Monday next, at four o’clock, in Hokitilih. ■ There is a resident of Southland named Patience who owns a comfortable farm, but still persists in remaining a bachelor. Recently a young widow in the neighbourhood was lamenting her misfortunes, and alluding to her bereavement and lonliness burst out crying. “Never mind, Mary,” said a sympathising neighbour “have patience woman, have patience,” “Deed, I wad soon have patience, if Patiehce wad have me,” replied the sobbing one. It has long been the boast of the Viennese that four of the greatest musical composers—Mozart, Gluck, Joseph Haydn and Beethoven—lie buried in the quaint old Friedhof at Vienna. At a meeting of the magistrates of that city it was unanimously agreed that the common council should be requested to ordain that the graves and monuments of these famous men should be florally decorated all the year round at the public expense. Lovers of music will be able to show their veneration for each one or all of these great composers by the richness and taste of their floral offerings. Here is a story of retributive justice. A very short-tempered old gentleman, who was going by train to Brighton, and very prudently was taking his fish with him, happened to get into a smoking carriage by mistake. The day was foggy and he did not notice the letters on the glass, but he noticed that a ycfnng'man’opposite had a cigar ih" Ills mouth, and at once began to upbraid him. “I object to tobacco,” ho said, “ and you shall not smoke here!” The young man said nothing, but smoked on. Upon this, after a few violent expressions, to which he received no reply, the short-tempered man took the cigar out of the other’s mouth, and threw it out of the window. Like the cavalier in the ballad, the young man “ scorned the idea of putting himself in a rage but rising quietly from his seat, and seizing the basket his antagonist had put in the cradle above him, and which contained half a salmon and a lobster, he exclaimed, “I object to fish,” and threw it out of tile window. The guard was appealed to at the terminus, and decided, very justly, that it had served the short-tempered gentleman right.