The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1166, 24 June 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1880.

The christening of Mr Maher’s new engine at Larrikins was to have taken place this afternoon, but at the time of our going to press the particulars of this interesting ceremony had not come to hand. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council will be held at the Town Hall this evening. A meeting of the Arahura Road Board was held at Mr Blake’s store, Main street, yesterday afternoon ; present Messrs Foldi (in the chair), Blake, Linnell, Locke, and the Secretary (Mr Byrne). After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and confirmed, it was resolved that the Secretary prepare the roll, from which a rate is to be struck. The Secretary was also instructed to write to all the creditors of the Board, asking them if they would receive a certain amount in the £ in liquidation of their respective accounts. Several small accounts were passed for payment, and the Board adjourned until the 13th July, at which date a meeting of the creditors of the Board will be convened, to take place at Stafford Town. Telegraph Stations are now open at Kirwee and Springfield, in the county of Selwyn. The Evidence Amendment Act, introduced by W. D. Stewart, provides : That all confessions made by a member of a congregation to his minister or priest shall be privileged ; that all communications made to a physician or surgeon in his professional character by a patient, shall be

privileged ; and that all admissions made to a conversation held with a police-officer by a prisoner after arrest shall be inadmissable unless the same take place in the presence of a Justice of the Peace. A wife or husband may, in criminal cases, give evidence for or against each other, but all confidential commilhications between them are privileged. A prisoner at his own request may give evidence, but his non-clection to do so is not to be subject to Comment. The Bill contains provisions regarding payment of expeilsea of witnesses called for the defence. Attention is directed to the sale of two valuable blocks of rural land situated near Sandy’s Hill, and which tomorrow Will be offered by Mr P. A. Learmonth, of Hokitika, prior to the sale of Messrs Davidson and Co. ’s stock. The final clearing sale of the remaining stock of Messrs D. Davidson and Co., who have disposed of their premises, will take place to-morrow, when tevery article will be disposed of by public auction, without the slightest reserve. Irrespective, however, of drapery, there are several items to be submitted of a most useful nature for business purposes. The Moorhouse Service Recognition Bill, Which was moved in the House of Representatives by Sir George Grey, and which, if carried, would have given Mr Moorhouse, of Christchurch, a gold medal and a free pass on all the Government railways to his descendants for ever, has been thrown out in the Upper House by 19 to 9, Mr Bvickley observing of the measure that the franter of the Bill must have meant it as a practical joke. The Pharmacy Bill provides for the appointment of a Pharmacy Board for the colony consisting of six members and president, being duly qualified pharmaceutical chemists.. The Board is to be appointed in the first instance by the Governor in Council, and at the expiration of three years to be elected by the pharmaceutical chemists of the colony. The Board will have power to make regulations, appoint officers, keep an annual register of qualified chemists, for whom examinations are to be held. The qualifications entitling persons to registration as pharmaceutical chemists are that they niust have kept an open chemist’s shop for two months, acted as a dispensing chemist six months, served as an apprentice for four years, and attended ja course of lectures, hold a diploma, dr have passed an examination before the Board appointed under the Act-. Trading as chemists without a certificate, or practising medicine or surgery otherwise than as hitherto privileged, subjects the person so offending to a penalty, recoverable in a summary way before aily Magistrate or two Justices of the Peace, and all fees, fines, and penalties, which are fixed by the Board’s regulation will go to the funds. Referring to the Kelly gang the Australasian says “ Whether these outlaws are still in the colony or not is a question that is regarded by many people as problematical. The police and the residents in what is known as the Kelly district, however, positively assert that the outlaws are still in the country, and there is little doubt that this is the case. With regard to the police murders, it has become known that Sergeant Kennedy’s life was taken in a very cold-blooded manner. He was but wounded on the day of the encounter, and was allowed to live all night, so that the gang might learn from him how to use the. Silencer rifle. On the following morning Ned Kelly shot him dead through the breast. This fact having become known to the sympathisers of the outlaws, has produced a coolness between them and the gang.” The Sydney Evening News is reponsible for the following anent Chinese cursing ; “ At cursing the Chinese surpass all the people of the earth. The gambling-house keepers have employed two Buddhist priests to anathematise Willy Reilly, the half-caste who assisted the police. Instructions have been given to spare no expense, but to do the thing properly. The priests have been at it day and night, spell and spell about, for three days. They commenced at the top of Willy Reilly’s head, and cursed everything else down his right side, and they are now nearly up to his left shoulder. They are doing the work thoroughly. After finishing up with Willy, they have, in accordance with Mongolian practice to curse all his relations, however remote, and his ancestors back to the 16th generation. They expect to finish the job in about three months, if the weather holds up.” The Ballarat Star states that the incumbency of Hamilton, rendered vacant by the death of the late Archdeacon Innes, has been oflered by the Bishop of Ballarat

to the Rev. J. H. L. Zillman, the locuui tenens in the parish of St. John’s, Melbourne, durnig the absence in England of the Rev. Canon Chase, the incumbent of | the parish. The office of archdeacon is not necessarily joined to the incumbency of Christ Church, Hamilton, and the appointment of a clergyman for that archdeaconry will remain in abeyance for the present. Mr Hillman has asked for a few days to consider whether he Can accept the above offer. There must be a fine field for Good Templars in a certain newspaper office, if there is any truth in the following story told by “iEghjs” in the Australasian An Australian journalist tells me that there is an Australian journal in an Australian city “rim” oil alcohol. This is his allegation. The editor has.been drunk •. for years ; the sub-editor is. invariably tight; the leading of the reporting staff, like his superiors, has never been Sober within the memory of any pressman j the musical critic observes talent through the bottom of a tumbler; the shipping reporter never tries to write without a preliminary observation just over his little finger; the rank and file of the stafFj including police and Parliamentary reporters, are never in their sober senses' unless they can’t , help it; the machinist needs as much lubrication as kis printing press, and the compositors drink whisky for breakfast. The singular arjd quite discouraging moral; is that there is plenty of money in the paper, and its circulation is increasing daily. The Great Eastern, which has Mil idle for some four years, is undergoing extensive alterations. . Her paddle engines' are being taken out of her, and she will in future be driven by twin screws. She is being fitted for the conveyance of cai*gde3 of live cattle from America, and her passenger saloons are being redecorated. The famous Roman tenor, Father Giovanni, a Capuchin friar, is dead. He was in many respects the most remarkable tenor of the century, and operatic managers have vainly offered large sums to induce him to renounce his life of asceticism and to go upon the stage. When he sang the mass in Rome, the Cathedral was always crowded. Truefitt, the great London hairdresser and perfumer, following the fashion of the time, has turned his business into a limited compaiiy, presided over by aktyd, and with £75,000 capital. There are more than 3000 subscribers on the, lists of his “ Toilet Club,” and the returns for haircutting are £7OQO > year. .