The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1091, 30 March 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1880.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held this evening, at the Secretary’s office. The drawing of Gilbert Stewart’s consultation on the Sydney Cup will take place this evening, at the Town Hall, when, as the committee will be chosen from the subscribers, all those having an interest therein should .attend. The drawing of Singer's grand art union, which was to have taken place last evening, was postponed until a future date in consequence of a number of the returns from outlying districts not liaving come to hand. The Carnival held yesterday at Greymouth in aid of the various Benevolent Societies was, to use the words of the Argus—“from the procession in the morning till the last song in the evening

a grand success.” Why do not our local charitable societies unite and do likewise/

The last monthly inspection of the year of the local Rifle Volunteers will be held at the Adelphi Hall this evening. Lovers o£ the green baize will now have an* excellent. Opportunity of exhibiting their skill with the cue to some purpose, as a class tournament has been opened at the KuWara Billiard dub, in Which a number of good pecuniajy - prizes are offered.

The prizes won in the late chess handicap tournament are, we observe, to be presented to the successful competitors oh Thursday evening next, on which occasion a social gathering of those interested ixi the kingly game wifi take place.

Graham Blowers was acquitted yesterday by the Resident Magistrate, at the Ahaura on the charge of stealing cattle belonging to Davis, but was immediately re-arrested on another charge. A man who Was recently sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in Wellington for obtaining money by false representations, had spent £1 of his plunder in the purchase of a ticket in a sweep l on the Wellington Cup. Hid ticket drew Hail-, storm, and the value of the prize" was £2oo—a nice little sura with which to start again when his sentence expires. A correspondent having asked the Hawke’s Bay Herald whether the borough of Napier could sport a coat of arms, that journal replies, “We are not aware of any, but it is about time we had one. We suggest as appropriate the figure Of a judge in wig and gown, seated under a canopy ‘ln bankruptcy’ on a scroll underneath. The judge might be blindfolded, and a pair of scales in his hand, wi{h ‘liabilities’ on the lower scale and ‘assets’ (very shadowy) on the one kicldng the beam.” A serious affray in Syria is reported by the Paris Figaro. At Alexandretta on January 2nd, twenty sailors from the French despatch boat La Touche Treville landed, and were rather boisterous in some taverns they visited, when, they were insulted and pelted with orange peel by some roughs. A scuffle ensued, and one of the sailors had his head cleft by a sabre, the murderer taking refuge from, the unarmed sailors with the Spanish Vice-Consul on whose refusal to give him up the doors were forced, but the culprit could not be found. The French Vice-Consul and the agent of the Messageries Nationales were' trying to calm down the sailors, when the Governor of the town, with 60 gendarmes, marched up, and, without wamitag or' inviting explanations, ordered the sailors to be fired on. Three of them fell wounded. The captain, on learning of the affair, sent the mate and three officers; but these, on landing, were forced by a mob, armed with sticks, to re-embark. The captain then sent word to the Admiral of the Levant squadron, who has left the Piraeus for Alexandretta. M. Fournier, moreover, has called on the Porte to dismiss the Governor of Alexandretta; but the Porte refusing to do this at once, has ordered an inquiry. The Princess Louise .(Marchioness of Lome) previous to her leaving Ottawa for England, gave instructions for a f< clearing to be made in the woods of Rideau Hall and a veritable blackwood shanty to be constructed upon it. 1 The work is now in progress, and will be ready when she returns to Canada. This seems to indicate that Her Royal Highness has been charmed with life as she has seen it in the Canadian backwoods.

The costs of the prosecution of Rosenberg for the libels on Mrs West and Mrs Langtry, as sent into the court in the first instance, were no less than £I2OO. This sum was reduced by taxation to £BOO, of which Messrs Head and Mark, the printers of the libels, are pledged to pay £6OO.

The fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the locomotive is to be celebrated at Turin, when a commemorative tablet on the principal fajade, of the station : in honor of George Stephenson will be uncovered.

Two pre-eminent honours—one civic and the other scientific—have been conferred upon printers. Sir Francis Truscott, head of the great house of James Truscott and Sons, in Suffolk lane, has been elected Lord Mayor of London ; and Mr William Spottiswoode, of the Queen’s Printing House, New Street .square, has been elected President of the Royal Society. Barnum s tattooed Greek sailor is on exhibition in Albany, and the advertisement says :—“ He has upon his body 7,000,000 punctures, and it was all done by a female savage. The poor msn lost a drop of Jjlood andshed a tear for every

puncture, and was the only one of twenty l four who adrVived the operation. J&ef woman who did the tattooing hours a day 1 fcr ninety days before the task was completeu.” A mathematician of the Albany “Express ” figures as follows “The woman must have giten him punctures a Second.- Then, if he lost one drop of blood with every puncture, he lost, estimating the nsual nOmlier of drops to a pint, and taking a pint for a pound; SfiKKJlb. Or, to put it differently; just 888 gaL of blood, or' a trifle over twenty barrels during ninety days. IWs don t weigh ae muoh as blood, so bunch-' nog the two together the gentleman from Albania must have lost about 5i tons of those fluids within three months.” Barnum’s agent retorts that, if the Greek had not been a wonderful man, he would not have been exhibited.-