The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1063, 26 February 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1880.

Mr Seddon, M.H.R., addressed a crowded meeting at Dillman’s Town last evening, and explained his reason for resigning his seat as a member of the County Council of Westland, which action was thoroughly endorsed under the circumstances as stated by him, by those present. In consequence of the lengthly nature of his explanation and remarks on County matters we are compelled to hold over the full report of the proceedings until our next issue.

Mails for the Continent of Europe, via Colombo and Brindisi, dose on Mohday 'evening next. The new rates appear with the usual postal notice. Our contemporary the West Coast Times informs us ‘'that the charge in the New Zealanders political creed followed immediately on the charge of proprietorship.” Probably so, but atlhesame time we might point out to our contemporary that this sequel does not always follow-. For instance we have a vivid recollection of a venerable statesman being designated "an old fossil-,” when out of power and "a man among men” when in office, and yet the proprietary of the vacillating journal that gave birth to these expressions remained unchanged. A meeting of the members of the Kumara Cricket Club is convened for Saturday evening next, at the Kumara Hotel, Main street.

The drawing of Giles and Richmond’s sweep on the Dunedin Cup look place last evening, the winning numbers of which appear in another column.

A rather amusing incident (says the Post) accurred in Wellington a few days ago, and one which is likely to cause

“ trouble” to somebody. There fire in this city two persons of the same name. One of them occupies a high official position, is a leading member of his church, and a strict teetotaller. The other is neither so high, so religious, nor. perhaps so abstemious ivs his namesake. Hie first is rather pi'dud of the fact that he owes no man anything, but the second is not so fortunate. In fact he owes a good many men something, and as a natural result he has had occasion to appear at the Resident. Magistrate’s Court on one or two occasions. Having been ordered by Mr Mansford to pay one of his debts within a given time, and having failed to do so, a distress warrant was taken out and given to a bailiff to execute. The bailiff knew where Mr lived, of of course, and gaily marched off to do bis duty. But it so happened that it was the Wrong Mr —— whose residence he knew. However, when he reached the house he walked in by the open door, and • with a bhihd smile produced his Warrant and proceeded to make himself comfortable, ft Was not for some time that he could be made to understand that he had got into fhC wrong house, put when he discovered that Tact lie took his departure with considerable We leave our readers to imagine the horror of Mr fit Tikving his goods and chattels seized for the ncm-payinent of a beer bill.

A singular case of sagacity on the part of a dog is reported from Auckland by the New Herald. A child was drowned ii\ a dam at a tahAery in the Whau. It was remembered afterwards by the tannery workmen, in the light of the sad event, that at a 'quarter-past 5 o’clock (the time of the accident) the tannery watchdog, posted about 100 ft. tip the cliff on the south side of th‘6 cl'bekj j limped upon his kennel, and straining oh the collar, commenced to bark furiously. At it was his custom to do so wheAever anyone not connected with the works passed by, the circumstance did not attract Any special notice, but there is little reasoA now to doubt that the dog(a Newfoundland) saw the child fall in, and was t endeavouring to get off the chain to rescue her.

Mrs Emma Havdinge Britten was on January 18tli, lecturing at San Francisco, with great success, in fact, hundreds could not gain admission to the lecture hall. The Press take considerable notice of this talented lady’s lecture. A man died recently at Cayenne who was transported for life from France 28 years ago for setting fire to farm houses at Longpierre. He left behind him a wife and five children. The news of her decease led to a confession by the accuser who admitted that he himself had committed the ‘crime for which another man had been punished'. He was arrested and committed to prison, Whore he contrived to take his own life.

A private in the Seventy-ninth Highlanders recently saved a child Rom drowning in the river at Kirkee, India, at imminent peril of his 'own life, and then kept the crowd back while the surgeon resuscitated the little One. This occupied some time, so that he was late in returning to the barracks, and when the officers heard this explanation they ordered him to be confined for fourteen days. One of the most audacious thieves whose history is remembered by the police of Paris was a certain Beaumont, who wearing a black coat and white cravat, with a voluminous portfolio under his arm, and having the general appearance of a very qvsy Magistratej one day went to the police headquarters, made requisition for a soldier, and posted him in front of a door in the building, with instructions to let no one enter. He penetrated into the office of the chief of the detective service, who was Out at the time, opened all the locks in the room with skeleton keys-, and appropriated the contents of the secretary, which contained a round sum. He then reconducted the soldier to the station where he made the requisition, thanked the commanding officer for his kindness, disappeared, and that very evening wrote a letter to the chief, begging the latter to excuse him for the annoyance he had caused him. The police Vi'ere put upon his track, but in vain, and the detective service had to swallow its mortification as best it could.

The population of the globe inay be assumed at 1,421,000,000, divided thus : Europe, 309,000,000 ; Asia, 824,000,000 ; Amevca, 85,000,000. It has been calculated from the mortality tables of known countries that the annual number of deaths throughout the world is 35,693,350, or that, in other words, 97,790. persons die each day. On the other hand the

balance of population is more than kept up by births at the rate of 104,800 per day. Seventy new lives are ushered in every minute of the Hi bouts.