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Kumara Times, Issue 1111, 22 April 1880, Page 2

Through a blunder in an office calendar, the Banks in -Ku'mara were yesterday advertised to be closed to-day, as for St, George’s Day. The mistake was discovered, as we to-day observed that they were all open. To-morrow, being St. George’s, is the day on which they will be closed for the legal holiday. A temporary telegraph office is opened on the Auckland racecourse to-day and to-morrow.

At. the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Stafford Town, this morning, Dr Giles gave his decision in the case of John Rodgers, who was charged with illegally acting as a member of the Arahural Road Board and dismissed tho information against the defendant, with costs of Court against the informant. The decision given by the Magistrate, which is a very lengthy and important one, will appear in full to-morrow.

An election for three members to fill the vacant seats in the Arahura Road Board will be held at an early date, due notification of which will appear in our advertising columns.

The King of Burmah, a Thebaw Prince, for whose recovery from small-pox orders were given, according to our cablegrams, for the massacre of 700 people, “in the hope that the sacrifice would propitiate the offended deities,” was about 21 years of age only, but was said to be eccentric in his habits, and “ unfortunately also of a bloodthirsty nature,” as, indeed, the sequel proved. Mademoiselle Alice de Giberton de Breuilles, a young lady of distinguished family, lias just fallen a victim to her love of mountain climbing. She resolved, without a guide, to ascend the Pic du Larmont in the Pyrenees. She had mounted some distance, when her foot slipped, and she fell into the abyss below.