The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1115, 27 April 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1880.

Judging from the tenor of the leading paragraph that appears in our contemporary the West Coast Times this morning, that journal has evidently taken umbrage at a reply we made in answer to a correspondent relative to some “ waste paper ” that was circulated through tills district. After endeavouring to father its own blunder on the leading papers of this Colony our incensed contemporary fles off at a tangent and becomes entangled in a matter that it neither understands or ever will appreciate, viz., the publication of this journal. To quote the words of one of the misleading papers of the Colony “ such arrant nonsense is scarcely Worth contradiction.”

The nomination of candidates to fill the three Vacant seats in the Arahura Road Board will take place at Stafford Town at noon to-morrow.

Sittings of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden’s Courts, which have been advertised to be held to-morrow, are adjourned until the 6th of next month, when Dr. Giles, the Resident Magistrate of Hokitika, will attend.

We are informed by one of the parents of two children who attended the State School that what he considers most undue severity in the way of chastisement has been inflicted on his eldest girl, and that on her return from school her hands and face were greatly swollen from, as lie states, the punishment she had received. Although far from saying that the discipline of the school can be maintained without probably in many instances personal correction being required, at the same time it is none the less the duty of the Local School Committee to make a strict investigation into this case, not only on the part of the parents of the child, but also in justice to the teachers, as a report of this nature, when once circulated, tends materially to damage the reputation and efficiency of the staff of the institution. Should the father of the child referred to not report the matter to the Local Committee, instead of “thumping ” the head master, as he intimated his intention of doing, we shall consider it our duty to give the matter fuller publicity.

We understand that at the monthly inspection of the local Rifles this evening, the company will probably be practiced in skirmishing drill, and as this will necessitate the use of blank cartridges, the unusual sound of firearms need cause no alarm to the residents of this town.

We observe from an announcement in another column that a concert in aid of the funds of St, Patrick’s School will be held oft the evening of the Queen’s Birthday, the programme of which will appear in a few days. A Bombay telegram says :—The wreck of the British India S.N. Company’s steamer Yingorla, which occurred near Bombay on Sunday morning, Feb. 29, has occasioned much painful excitement here. The cause of the disaster appears to be very mysterious. The ship was suddenly discovered to be full of water, and a short time afterwards settled down by the head. Capt. Stuart held to his post, and went down with his ship, but his wife and child were saved, and brought on to Bombay. The chief officer was picked up by a passing vessel. An inquiry is now being held, but no cause has yet being assigned for such an extraordinary leakage. Fifty persons in all were drowned.