The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1050, 11 February 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880.

The inward San Francisco mail will in all probability arrive here on Saturday next, as the mail arrived at Auckland early yesterday morning, and the Taiaroa with the West Coast mails left at 10.45 a.m. Mails for the United Kingdom and Australia, per Arawata, close at the Bluff at 11 a.m. on Friday next. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court last evening, Annie Haines was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labor for the larceny of three lettuces and a piece of tobacco of the value of 2s 6d., the property of James Ah Young. The presiding justices were Messrs Seddon and Barff. At the weekly parade of the local Rifle Volunteers last evening, a letter was read from the Secretary of the Hospital Committee requesting the patronage of the Contingent at the benefit to be given at the Theatre Royal on Thursday night, in aid of the funds of the Hospital. It was unanimously decided by the members present to attend on the occasion, for which purpose they will meet at the Adelphi Hall at seven o’clock sharp tomorrow evening, notice to that effect appearing in another column. The entertainment to be given by the Gaiety Variety Troupe at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening is one that is deserving of the patronage of every one in the district, as the object of the entertainment is in the cause of suffering humanity the augmentation of the funds of our local Hospital As that institution is one of those which receive the Government subsidy of £1 for £1 on all the money contributed to its maintenance it naturally follows that every person who attends to-morrow evening not only enjoystheopportunity of witnessingthe performance of a thoroughly good programme, but contributes exactly double the amount of his or her admission to the entertainment to the funds of the Hospital. The performance to-morrow evening is under the patronage of his Worship the Mayor, the members of the Borough Council, the Rifle Volunteers, and the Friendly Societies, and we trust that in this instance the word “patronage” will be defined under the term of personal attendance. The programme which to use a vulgarism is “immense,” and which we are glad to observe contains the names of some of our local amateurs, is well selected for the occasion. The action of the Gaiety Variety Troupe in this matter is to say the least a spontaneous and generous one, and’ our estimation of the manner in which it will be received by the community generally must be greatly at fault if in predicting a monster house to-morrow evening we are nppfofcen,

'The Zealand Gazette of the 4th inst, notifies that His Excellency the Gdvernor has been pleased to issue a letter of naturalization under “The Aliena Act, 1866,” to Mr Joseph Davidson, draper, of Kumara. The tournament of the Napier Chess Club has concluded, and the prizes ■were presented by Judge Kenny, president, who was one of the competitors. Pirani (of the Hawke’s Bay Herald) took first prize, winning 25 games, drawing three, and losing three games; Hindmarsh, second, winning 22 games, drawing four, and losing four; Burr, (Telegraph Department) third, winning 20 games, drawing five* and losing seven games, There were 17 players, and the conditions were that each was to play two games with each, draws to count half to each player. A correspondent writes us;—“There being several inferior players, and none between them and those considerably advanced occasioned a very curious kind of handicapping. It was this—lst class to give to 2nd class pawn and move ; to 3rd class pawn and two* moves, and to 4th class a rook. 2nd class to give to 3rd class the move and to 4th class a knight. 3rd class to gfve to 4th class a knight.” It will be seen that the above odds fall far short of those which have been conceded by the first and second class players in the Kumara tournament, in which there are in all 29 competitors, Messrs D. Davidson and Go. request all accounts owing to their firm may be settled before the end of this month, otherwise legal troubles will ensue. Two sisters, on a visit to a large house near Wanganui, were sleeping in a room together up stairs. During the night (says a correspondent of the Marion paper) one one of them had toothache, and descended to the kitchen en dishabille to procure something to illeviate the pain. She returned to the bedroom, and exclaiming l “Oh, it’s so cold,” jumpedinto bed. The exclamation aroused the" occupant, who proved to be, not her sister, but a male sleeper. She had got into the wrong room. He turned over, and thinking a burglar was in the room, caught hold of her, she managed to escape, but not before his rough handling had scratched her face. She related the circumstance, to her sister, and to hide from the gentleman which of the two had been his unwilling guest, both ladies appeared with a strip of stickingplaster on her cheek. The Queen has sent to Major Chard a very handsome ring as a mark of her appreciation of his heroic conduct at Rorke’s Drift. The gift is accompanied with an autograph letter. The ring is a valuable diamond Waterkloff. Among the stories of the ruin wrought by the failure of the Glasgow Bank, is that of a young girl, charged with theft by her employer at Islington, whose family lost their all by the failure, and who committed the theft to get food for her starving mother and two little children. Her father had been a physician in good practice, and died of grief. A practical joke played by one angler on his companion at Clichy, France, terminated in a tragical manner. They were fishing near each other on the bank of the Seine, when one laid down his rod, threw two big stones into the river, and hid himself behind a tree. The other, hearing the splash, turned round and not seeing his friend, thought he had fallen into the water and sunk. He jumped in to save him, but was carried away and was drowned. A rich childless merchant of Tambo, Russia, by name Ivan Stephanovitch Karhas bequeathed his whole fortune, amounting to 600,000 roubles, to Vera Zassulitch, well known for her attack on General Trepoff.