The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1120, 1 May 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1880.

Owing to the lengthly nature of the report of last nights meeting we are compelled to hold over the report of the Borough Council and several other matters of local interest.

The Christchurch coach, with nine bags of mails for Kumara, passed the Bealey early thiß morning.

.We are glad to learn that the miner, Scott Irvine, who was injured by the accident yesterday, is progressing as favorably as can be expected. This evening the Georgia Minstrels will make their first appearance, at the Adelphi Theatre; and, although we refrain from expressing any opinion as to their abilities until witnessing the entertainment, we havd little doubt from the unanimous verdict of the Press Jri. their, favor wherever they have appeared, that it is a bona-fide performance of *a thoroughly humorous and amusing character; From a personal inspection of the Theatre we can safely say that, Mr Alexander, the courteous manager of the troupe, has left nothing undone that will tend to the comfort of the public, and those who may have secured seats in the dress circle will find an usher in attendance to point out their respective place. A rather good story (says the Post) is told of how the congregation of a Scotch Church, within a hundred miles of Wellington, was, on a certain occasion, involved in real and not figurative darkness. The learned divine who occupied the pulpit was warmly engaged in the delivery of a forcible sermon to his flock, and had reached one of the most thrilling points wherein he painted the woeful fate of the benighted ones of earth, when suddenly the gas went out; the minister and congregation were wrapped.in utter gloom, and "in an instant all was dark, and chaos reigned." All was confusion, and divers voices in anything but congregational unison were heard, demanding and receiving no explanation of the cause of the mischance. A general but cautious movement was made to the door, and the preacher abdicated the pulpit, whilst others procured candles, several elderly ladies* ofVsuperstituous frame of mind, in the meantime imputing the visitation to the machinations of the "evil one.'' On a search for the delinquent, it was found in the corporeal shape of an old torn cat, that had, in its endeavors to reach a higher position, jumped on the turncock of the meter, and cut off the gas in an effectual manner. This discovery was a source of considerable amusement, and some of the junior members of the congregation, with rather a.profame. fond, ness of "Pinafore," was;heard humming, as they went: me! What, what was that£,,~lt.was the cat?'' So ended what a wag' suggested to have been "a congregational catastrophe." ' '.

It-is .rumored that the. Lord Chancellor of Ireland will call on Mr Parnell, as an Irish magistrate, to give explanations of certain language which he is reported to have publicly used in America.

The inhabitants of the Bordelais country are prone to exaggeration, but one of them recently met his match. He was

dining with a Japanese friend mi the" boulevard, and mushrooms discussion; "In my country,'' said the BordclAis, "the mushrooms under the trees are larger than these plates." What of that?" exclaimed the Jap. "In my Country it is the trees that grow under the mushrooms-."