The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1095, 3 April 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1880.

The Christchurch coach, with four bags of mails but no passengers, for Kumara, passed the Bealey early this morning. The Warden, J. Mackay, Esq., yesterday visited and inspected a large block of auriferous ground at Larrikin's, for which several applications had been lodged in the Warden's Court by parties requiring double areas. The Warden (we think very wisely) refused all the applications, as, if they had been granted the second portion of the sludge-channel would, when completed, have been monopolized by a few parties who had previously secured all the workable ground in the neighborhood of this important tail-race.

Mrs Henham writes to us as follows : "It having been reported in the town that I 'drank hard,' which expression means nothing more nor less than ruin (which it should do to a poor woman like myself), will you kindly help me to a little justice by flatly contradicting the statement in your paper, especially as the slander originated from the fact of a very good publican here having given me something to x eat,' instead of to 'drink' as reported."

Mr Duncan M'Lean, of this town, has disposed of his business to Mr George Rudkin, who will carry on this wellknown establishment as heretofore by keeping on hand a large and carefullyselected stock of groceries, &c, for the convenience and choice of his patrons.

The N Z. Times of Monday in noticing a recent parade of the local Naval Brigade, says : —"just previous to dismissal, the lieutenant in command was asked by a petty officer, who attended in plain clothes, why he was requested to leave the Hall, he being a member of the corps. The officer in command stated that when a parade is called in uniform, and a member without reasonable excuse attends in plain clothes and constitutes himself a spectator while his mates are at drill, he is guilty of conduct unbecoming a member of the Brigade, and such a man should not be recognised under the circumstances. The man was then outrageous enough to to say he would not leave the Hall, and would like to see the man that would put him out. The individual in question found the officer in command equal to the emergency—he being immediately run out by a petty officer's guard.