The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1051, 12 February 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1880.

At the Theatre Royal this evening, the Gaiety Variety Troupe will make their last appearance in Kumara, and for an object that will not only redound to their credit but also, we trust, secure them a crowded audience, viz., the augmentation of the funds of the local Hospital. As* the amount contributed in this district is totally inadequate to maintain this institution in a thorough state of efficiency and utility, it necessarily devolves on the committee to occasionally solicit some extra support at the hands of the community generally, although in so doing they proffer the request in the form of an entertainment, and by this meaus not wdy amuse the public, but thereby increase the funds of the institution. Such is the case this evening, and on this ground and also the fact that the Gaiety Variety Troupe have so generously come forward to assist the Committee in their Jaudable intentions, the house should be a crowded one. We were under the impression that the last of the Arahura Road Board would have been heard of yesterday, but it appears that, after all the expense that has been incurred in conforming to the wishes of the Westland CoiSnty Council prior to the merging of the Board, that body, by a majority of one vote, negatived the resolution of Mr M‘Whirter to merge the Board into the Council. The following is the division list—Ayes : Messrs Jack, Seddon, Sandle and M'Whirter ; Noes : The Chairman, Messrs Hirter, Grimmond, Dale and M‘Goldrick. We understand that Mr Seddon did the only thing he could under the circumstances, resigned as a member of such an eccentric body. There was a good attendance at the Oddfellows Hall, Stafford Town, last evening to witness the performance of the Gaiety Variety Troupe, the celestial race being strongly represented. The entertainment gave general satisfaction, the various items being heartily applauded. The local Volunteer Rifle Contingent will parade at the Adelphi Hall at seven o’clock sharp this evening, for the purpose of attending the entertainment in aid of the Hospital, at the Theatre Royal. A munificent gift by a Sydney lady is reported in the local papers, a Mrs. Maurice Alexander having presented the sum of £I,OOO to found a scholarship at ( Sydney University. The fair donor in-

tends it to yield an endowment for students who shall have graduated with honor, and have the desire but not the means to enter on a liberal profession. A singular funeral recently occurred at Delhi, New York. In accordance with the request of the deceased, who abhorred black as expensive, and significant of anything but a happy future, all the mourners where dressed in white. Abraham Levy, alias Albert Leverque, aged 30 years, formerly a broker in Paris, France, surrendered himself recently to the New York police. He appeared completely broken down. He said that in 1876 he absconded from Paris with $30,000 worth of diamonds. He escaped to England, and took a steamer to this city, where he has since lived on the proceeds of the robbery, by selling from time to time the stolen stones. The Paris correspondent of the Boston Courier, referring to his recovery from a dangerous illness cause by neuralgia says ; “ I mention this illness that I may tell you how easily I was cured. I was bent double. I could not breathe. My physician ordered me to take a flat iron and heat it as hot as I could bear, put a double fold of flannel on the painful part and move the iron to and fro on the flannel. I was cured as by enchantment. My doctor told me that some time since a professor in one of our colleges after suffering some days with neuralgia in the head, which he himself had tried to cure, sent for the former who prescribed a hot flat iron. The next time the doctor saw the professor, the latter exclaimed, ‘I had no sooner applied the heated iron to my head than all pain vanished.’” The ex-Khedive of Egypt has just lost one of his wives from his harem. A handsome young Italian painter named O’Elia went sketching through the harem grounds. He noticed a beautiful odalisk at one of the windows, and in some way managed to establish a telegraphic commuiiicatian with her, which was soon followed by a romantic elopement and marriage. How he managed to gel her from the harem is a mystery, The young couple are now living happily at Foggia, and since they are man and wife the Khedive can’t claim his former favorite. He is determined in future to keep his wives from the windows, for fear of more elopements.