The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1159, 16 June 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1880.

The Chriatchurch coach, with one passenger and four bags of mails, passed the Bealey early this morning. The New Licensing Bench, consisting of J. Mackay, Esq., R.M. (Chairman), and Messrs Arnott and Smith, will sit at the Court House to-morrow, at noon, to hear all applications for renewals, new licenses, and transfers. Subsequently the Licensing Court will be held at the Greenstone, for the same purpose. A special meeting of the Borough Council was convened for yesterday afternoon to consider the question of the proposed withdrawal of Government subsidies to boroughs; but as there was no quorum present, the meeting lapsed. From an announcement that appears elsewhere it will be seen that it is in contemplation to give an entertainment at an early date for the purpose of procuring the necessary instruments for a drum and fife band in connection with/ the State School. Although, however, the band is to be organised from the boys attending the school, it will be in every respect a town band, as it if intended to supply the members with uniform, and, besides playing the local Rifle Contingent out on parade nights, it will always be available for any other purpose. That a band is urgently required in this town was most unpleasantly demonstrated on Friday evening last, when the whole of the Friendly Societies turned out in procession, in regalia, the effect of the display, however, being completely marred by the absence of any music. An amusing little escapade in which a stalwart constable and a haggard looking though agile female played a prominent part, occurred this morning in close proximity to the office of this journal. The woman in question was arrested last night for petty larceny, and this morning, requiring a change of clothing sho was permitted to visit her house for that purpose, at the same time an escort being afforded her the form of a constable. Reaching her dwelling, however, the unsuspicious man of blue, following a few paces in rear of his captive, the woman shot round an angle of the building and her escort on turning the same corner a second after, found sho had mysteriously disappeared from view. Rapidly, anxiously, and keenly did the victim of misplaced confidence look for his lost charge. The highest, the lowest, the loneliest spot, . He sought her in vain, biit he found her not ; At length from under a floor, where she lay quite unseen, . She was brought forth by the constable, V who observed—" All serene ! ,f Shortly after, an excited specimen of the feminine gender and a happy guardian of the peace wore observed travelling towards the Camp in the most approved arm and arm fashion. Tenders are invited by the Westland County Council for the construction and erection of a bridge over the Waimea Creek at Goldsborough ; the forming of a track at German Gully, Stafford Town ; and twelve months maintenance of the track to the Taipo reefs. We would again remind all those interested in the development of this district that a meeting of the Kumara Prospecting Association will be held at the Town Hall this evening, at which it is expected every member of the association will attend. The New York Herald remarks that " the spring opening in the murder line is decidedly lively," and nobody would be disposed to cavil at the statement after reading a single day's tragedies. In a Southern town several rowdies entered a bar and assaulted a policemen, who shot one dead and wounded-another. At St. Nicholas a waiter shot dead a commercial traveller who found fault with the qualify of the eggs supplied for lus breakfast. At S^.' , r. r 'll('ol'vi l !o l'T.»-i- ( -Mr- 1 .-\r +l-.,-. '\V,-,„'l-.-l rj) iiti-.i .lilt. i\A i ji ( j.itA.y, liju -.VLarijuaJ having been threatened with death by a citizen, who considered himself wronged by that official, went to the house of'his enemy and shot him dead ; and the same fate befel a man engaged in a strike ; while a coloured boy of '].-]. cut the throat of a coloured girl because sho refused to up to find hi.m a pen. Pretty well tills for one day.