The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1107, 17 April 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1880.

The San Francisco mail arrived last evening by tram, and was promptly sorted and delivered by the postal authorities. .The Christchurch-coach with five [bags of mails but no passengers for Kumara, passed the Bealey at an early hour this morning. We are pleased to learn that Mr H. Ralfe, who, while a cadet in the Resident Magistrate’s office here gave general satisfaction to the public by the courteous and and attentive manner in which he' performed his official duties, has been appointed Clerk to the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Charleston. Chessplayers are reminded that to-night is the time positively fixed for closing the entry list for competition in the handicap chess tournament; and on Monday the committee and handicappers will hold their meetings to prepare rules and handicap the players. From the better knowledge the handicappers now possess of the relative merits of the various competitors, ■ the handicap will this time probably defy all attempt to successfully single out any positive winner, and as we hear it will be equally liberal as the last handicap, no one need despair of winning a prize. A telegram from Dunedin gives the following as the ascertained list of the insurances on the ship Calypso, reported in our cablegrams as having collided in the English Channel with the steamship Hawk. The insurances were effected through the Dunedin offices and the firms of Cargills, Gibbs and Co.—“ Per Marine Insurance Company of London, £IO,OOO ; ditto, per open policy in London, £10,000; New Zealand and Australian Land Co, per open policy in Glasgow, about £10,500 ; Vic- ’ toria Insurance Co., £SOOO ; South British, £4OOO ; Standard, £3OOO ; National, £2OOO ; Colonial, £2OOO ; Globe, £2000; Union, £1744 ; United, £112; total, £SG, 356. It lias been stated that in addition the Batavia Company had a risk of £SOOO on the vessel, but the local agents (Messrs Bright Bros. & Co.) know nothing of it. The above insurances are on the cargo alone, the hull being under-written in English offices on her last trip. Messrs

Cargill, Gibbs and Co. were insured on thoiri shipments by her to the amount of £32,000.” - Judgment was given at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Greymouth, yesterday, by the Hon. H. W. Lalnnan and G. C. Bowman, Esq., J.Ps., in the case (which was re-heard) of Charles Jones, of this town charged with indecent exposure at Goal Creek, on the 20th January last. The presiding Jnstices sentenced Jones to seven days’ hard labour. Mr Guinness, who appeared for the prisoner, appealed against the decision. The appeal was granted, and ultimately the Bench fixed the bail at prisoner’s own recognisance in £IOO, and two sureties of £3O.

Lieutenant-Colonel St. Hill, until recently private secretary for Governor Weld and commandant of the Tasmanian volunteers, has got into trouble. According to the newspaper report, he opened an account at the bank at Hobart Town, into which he paid sums for, the maintenance of the Governor’s establishment, as well as private money of his own.. The Bank reported to the Governor that : his account was overdrawn to the extent of £I4OO. The Governor made good:'the deficiency, and suspended, and afterwards dismissed St. Hill from the private secretaryship; Subsequently Governor Weld suspended St. Hill from the commandantship of the volunteers, and reported the matter to the Horse Guards. • St. Hill’s dismissal has since been gazetted! The story comes from Parteall, India, where diamonds are usually found—Golconda being the place where they are merely cut and polished—that the largest diamond .in the world bus lately been found there. It is said to weigh more than 400 carats, 33 carats more than: the famous stone belonging to the Rajah of Mattau.

A contributor ■ to an English paper writes “Of the £SOOO entrusted by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts to Mr W. Ashmead Bartlett, for personal distribution in Ireland,. £2OO has already , been given to help struggling fishermen in Galway, who have had a bad fishing season’ to pay their little debts, to tradesmen without incurring the ruinous system of borrowing, which so much prevails. I hear one of the special objects of charity to which the Baroness wishes this money devoted is the organisa. tion of small loans to tradesmen and little farmers, to be repaid at some future time without interest charged on them. Helping people to help themselves is far better charity, and capable of far wider extension, than the simple doling out of daily bread or money. ”