The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1141, 26 May 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1880.

The Christcoach coach, with five bags of mails but no passengers for Kumara, passed the Bealey at the usual hour this morning. The first sitting of the new Licensing Court under the ordinary regulations for the district of Kumara, will be held at noon on Tuesday next. All applications will be required to be lodged in duplicate with the Clerk of the Court on or before Monday next. To prevent misconception, we may point out that Kumara being no longer a special licensing district, those requiring licenses must apply before the 31st inst. An assistant female teacher is required by the Central Board of Education, for the Paroa School, at a salary of £9O per annum. The following singular challenge appears in the Saturday Advertiserl Samuel James Munchausen Jones, of the North Shore, Auckland, having persued Captain J. Barry’s book, and having heard it asserted that the said Captain Barry has a larger developed organ of ideality than any other man in New Zealand, hereby challenge the said Cap* tain Barry to meet me on any public platform in the Colony, in order to test which of us has the best title to be considered Champion Spinner of Yams in New Zealand. I am prepared to stake the sum of £IOO sterling, on my own behalf, against a like sulh of the Captain’s behalf, that I shall beat him in flights of fancy and pyrotechnics of imagination. An early response is requested. My card can be inspected at the office of the Saturday Advertiser, Princes street, Dunedin. The Woolgar correspondent of the Townsville Herald writes Here is something remarkable. When passing through Chedley Park Station, one of the Messrs Annings related the following : Between Cambridge Creek and the table land an aboriginal has been repeatedly seen among the ridges abounding in this country who measures in stature about Bft 6in. He is a well made and powerful looking giant, stout in proportion. His foot-track measures about 16in or 17in from toe to heel, and his single stride is over sft. This monster - blaokfellow is always well armed, and carries an enormous shield and spears, nullahs,

&c. He is invariably accompAhied by three white gins, who 6airy most of his tremendous weapons and procure his food. This story was partially confirmed by a digger, who being in search of his missing horse, happened by accident to stumble across the ‘giant's great tracks. These are the facts as I got them. Whether they require to be taken cum grano salis I leave others to judge.” Intelligence has been received from Noumea of the total wreck of the Sarah Dreyfrus on Cook’s Reef. The captain and crew were saved. She was insured for £560 in the New Zealand Company and £SOO in the National of New Zealand.