The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1156, 12 June 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1880.

By the Christchurch coach which passed the Bealey at the usual hour this morning there wore four bags of mails and one passenger for this town. Despite the inclemency of the Weather, the various Friendly Societies mustered very strongly at the Town Hall last evening and paraded in procession through Main and Scddon streets, with torches, prior to their attendance at the Adclphi Theatre, where they congregated on the occasion of the benefit organised on behalf of Mr George King, who, as a member of one of the societies, was held in the highest esteem while a resident in this town. The Auckland Star, speaking of large defalcations by the teller of the Bank or New South Wales, amounting to between £3OO and £4OO, says that fresh attention has been drawn to the refusal of one or two banks in the city, to allow the teller to initial deposits slips. But in that practice is the greac ciithculfy in sheeting home the offence. Assuming that a merchant sends his dork to pay £IOO into the bank iill, no receipt is issued, and the merchant.

finding the money has not gone to his credit, seeks an explanation. The teller thereupon denies all knowledge of the deposit, and declares, if it was sent at all, the clerk must have stuck to it. Who then is to determine between them 1 We have the word of the clerk against that of the teller. The objection raised to the system of duplicate deposit slips by those banks which refuse to recognise this mode of acknowledgment has never been very clearly defined. On the Goldberg, at Mardorf, near Marburg, in Hesse, a large number of rare ancient gold coins have just been discovered. They : are so-called Bracteates. On the hollowed side there is a picture in relief, having three, five, seven, or nine elevated points, of a snake-like animal; while the raised side shows a pear-shaped elevation in the centre, surrounded by two or three points and a wreath of leaves. The size of the coins is about that of a half-sovereign, but thicker, the weight being 74 grammes, the value, therefore, amounting nearly to a sovereign. A cross, bracelet, brooch, and some other objects have likewise been discovered at the same snot. Punch lias a picture of a Scotchman disputing with a London cabman about his fare. The controversy has become warm, ‘‘l’d hae you ken,” says the countryman of Campbells, “that I am a Mackintosh to which the irreverent cabby replies, “ You may be a humbcrellar for all that I know’s ; but my faro is heighteen pence.