The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1071, 6 March 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1880.

Owing to the lengthy nature of the proceedings of the Borough Council, we are compelled to hold over several local items, correspondence, and telegrams. We regret that through inadvertence we stated last evening that the polling for the election of a member to fill the va-

cancy ift the County Council was to take place to-day instead of on Saturday next, as we have cause to believe several electors were misled by our local and attended for the purpose of recording their votes where they supposed the polling booth existed at DillVnart’s TowA tb-day. An accident occurred at Kiley’s claim this morning, near “ The Break/’ Dillmah’s TowA, by which a mines named M ‘Uroy was seriortsly inj used. It appears that the party were engaged in putting in a from the main tunnel, when a false set gave way, the cap piece of which caught M'llroy, in falling across the back In' this situation he laid come time although every exertion was nM.de by many veiling hands to extricate him from his perilous position, and eventually he was released and brought to the Hospital. Dr Acheson was promptly in attendance on the spot when the accident was reported in toWn, and attended to the injured man directly he was released. Though Suffering from several contusions we are glad to learn that M‘Hroy is not dangerously injured-. The Christchurch coach with seven bags of mails (including the Suez) and no passengers passed the Bealey early this morning ; but it is doubtful if it will reach town at the usual hour this afternoon in Consequence of th!b flooded state of the creeks and rivers. The reported gold disCOvery at the Tereraakau appears at present to be of a most nbn-aurifetous nature, as the prospectors shaft which was bailed out and tried yesterday morning by several practical miners gave no evidence of the existence of any ground of a payable Character. The mail from Greymouth was delayed in its arrival'here until 1.30 p.m. to-day in consequence of one of the culverts on the line being washed away by the heavy flood in the creeks. A bye-law proposed to be passed by the Borough Council on the 18th instant is published in bur advertising column. O wing to the inclemency of the weather Messrs Tait Brothars, photographers, have postponed their Visit to this town 1 until Thursday next. In almost every part of Ireland miscreants are at work posting up notices on churches and chapels calling on the people to pay no rent. In sortie cases it is well known ad the wort ,of. mischievous schoolboys. On properties where tenants have hitherto been and are still living bn good terms with their landlords this at* ieirtpt at social incendiarism is made. From all parts of Ireland reports reach us (says an Irish paper) that the tenants are paying their landlords, accepting with thanks the reductions made because of the hard times that are in it. Why Communistic feelings should be forced on the people in this country we don’t know; but those who are sowing the wind may rCap the Whirlwind. The following la\V Case id taken from the records of the New Haven colony in 1669. The statute says ;—“ Whosoever shall inveigle or draw the affections of any maide or maide-Servartt, either to himself or others Without first gaining the Consent of her parents, shall pity to the plantation for the first offence 40s, the second £4, for the third shall be imprisoned or. Corporeously punished.” tinder this law, at a court held in May, 1669, Jacobeth Murtine and Sarah Tuttle, .were prosecuted “ for setting dowaon a chestle together, his artns round her waistO, and her arms upon his shoulder or about his neck, and continuing in that sinful pos i ture about half-an-hour, in which time he kyssed her and she kyssed him, or they kyssed one another, as ye witnesses testified.”