The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1169, 28 June 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1880.

A public meeting convened by his Worship the Mayor “ to urge on the Government the desirability of granting a sufficient sum to finish the Hokitika Harbor works,” will be held at the Town Hall this evening. We understand that in consequence of the proclamation declaring the new portion of town sections open for sale in Kumara not having yet been gazetted, the sale will not take place as previously announced on the 28th of July, but the date will be advertised immediately the Gazette is received containing the same by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press, under date 23rd, says : — c< Mr Macandrew did not speak this afternoon as expected, but the

Chronicle, the Opposition organ, taking for gi*«ftted that he would* came out this evening with a glaring account of his inlagifte.i'y Speech, it is stated that, although not brilliant, it bristled with hard facts and figures most damaging to the Government, and so forth, and this caused a great deal of nietriuieht to-night; Mr Macandrew was much offended about his great speech.” It is clear that in all cases it is not advisable to be “a day before the fair,’* as the Chronicle must have found in this instance. One of those cases of misplaced generosity \Vhich go far to frustrate in future any act of benevolence on the part of the person becoming the victim occurred yesterday afternoon. Walking into Mr Gilbert’s Stewart’s Hotel, a man named Charles Barclay solicited a “feed” on the grounds of poverty and hunger, which Mr Stewart, with his characteristic liberally at once granted by taking what } he believed, to be the unfortunate applicant into the dining room and providing him with a dinner from the best of the bill of fare. On returning to the room shortly after, he found that the famished individual in question had disappeared, but on going into the kitchen Mr Stewart was thoroughly disgusted to find the recipient of his favors quietly Walkihg off with a large quantity of glycerine soap rolled up in one of the house towels. This was too much for even Mr Stewart’s ideas of charity, and a constable being called in, the man was given in charge. The prisoner was brought up before E. Barff, Esq., J.P., this morning and remanded till Thursday next. The monthly inspection parade of the local Rifles will be held to-morrow evening, by Lieut. Spence, when the attendance of every member is necessary. We would remind storekeepers and others that tenders for the supply of provisions and other articles for the Kumara Hospital for the ensuing half-year must be forwarded to the Secretary before six o’clock to-morrow evening. We are requested by Superintendents of the various Sunday Schools to acknowledge the receipt respectively of £1 2s 6d from Mr Bain, towards prizes for each school; the amount being the surplus, after deducting all expenses, in connection with the late lime-light entertainment so kindly given by Mr C. E. Button, of Hokitika, for the amusement of the children attending the Sunday Schools in this town. Another industry is about to be started in the Colony in the shape of glassmaking. An experienced hand has been engaged by the Milton Pottery Company for the purpose of initiating and carrying out the manufacture of glassware. A commencement in this direction will shortly be made, in order that specimens may be forwarded to the Melbourne Exhibition. , The new nautical instrument, the navisphere, has been brought to the attention of the French Academy. It indicates without calculation the names of the stars above the horizon at a given moment, with altitude and azimuth, the angle of route for going from one point to another by the arc of a great circle, and the distance between those points, &c.