The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1339, 15 January 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1881.

The regular monthly meeting of the Lazar Masonic Lodge,. 1689, E. C., was held at the lodge-room yesterday afternoon. There was a large number of the visiting brethren present, in consequence of it being the day of the annual installation. The RW.D.G.M. of Westland

Brother John Be van, officiated as installing master, and duly installed Brother W. Nicholson as W.M. of the Lodge for the ensuing year. He then installed and invested the following officers for the Lodge :—S.W., Brother W, Barnett; J.W., Brother H. Gibbons; Treasurer, Brother T. Connell; Secretary, Brother L. J. Spyer ; Organist, Brother E. Peters; S.D., Brother Stinton; J.D., Brother Romas; 1.G., Brother G. Mansfield; Tyler, Brother Kjoler; and Stewards, Brothers G. Anderson and Dove. : After the ceremony and during the evening a banquet was held in honor of the event, at the Public Hall, a full report of which is unavoidably held over. It is notified in another column that the valuation list for the Arahura district is now open for inspection at the Court House, Goldsborough, where also all objections thereto must be left before the 15th proximo. -.,■■. A Special meeting of the Phelan Relief Fund was held at the Town Hall last evening ; present—Messrs M'Kenzie (in the chair), Maher, Whelan, Bohan, Clarke, and Duggan. After the outward correspondence had been read and approved of and the inward read and received, it was resolved that the further consideration of the letter from the Under-Secretary for Education, Wellington, be deferred until next meeting. In consequence of so many of the members of the committee being absent, the secretary was instructed to call another special meeting by advertisement in the Kttmaha. Times, for the 21st inst., at which the attendance of every member is earnestly requested. The committee then adjourned.

; At the Theatre Royal, last evening, the amusing comedy of "Our Boys" was most successfully produced, the respective charactersvbeing admirably represented, and the whole piece going Avith a life, and vivacity that was-delightfuL',to the audience. This evening Muss> Clara Stephenson will make her farewell appearance in " Ireland as it was."

There was a larger attendance at the Adelphi Theatre last evening, than on the previous night, and the wonderful bicycle feats of Madame Franzini were received with hearty applause. There are one or two other features in the programme of this company remarkably good, the step •dancing especially. They will appear for the last time this evening. Mr A. Macdonald of the Milton Implement and Carriage Factory, has (says the Bruce Herald) invented an engine the object of which is to economise steam. His invention is applicable to locomotives or stationary machinery, and is suited for propelling steam on land or water. In the engines at present used the steam does not get to the piston in the proper way, as it travels through a superfluous space before it reaches them. Mr Macdonald's invention utilises all available space, and there is no waste of steam. Instead of the •steam being compelled to wander on each side of the engine, thereby quite unnecessarily increasing its bulk without in any way augmenting its power, in the invem tion referred to the steam is conveyed directly to the piston. The four pulleys, which constitute the eccentric arid link motion in the old-fashioned engines, in Mr Macdonald's are reduced to a circular instead of a reciprocating motion, which drives the two engines when either "foregoing" or "backing"; in other words, this circular motion, which is peculiar to this invention, drives the two engines ahead or astern. The patterns have been designed and executed by Mr Macdonald himself, and the castings are his own Work. He intends to invite the residents of Milton and district to a public trial of the invention.

A curious story relating to the discovery | of a hidden treasure is current in the vil- | lage of Ashford. Early in the month of November, the wife of a labourer, it is said, while breaking up an old chest of drawers purchased for 6s some 20 years ago, discovered a secret oorupartment nearly filled with gold coin of the reigns of William 11 1. and George 11. The compartment in which the gold was found was capable of holding about 100 coins, and the chest of drawers is believed to have been repaired several times. An intelligent gentleman, who has recently spent several weeks at Salt Lake City, supplies the following facts to a San Francisco paper :—" The Mormons have only, for eternity only, for both time and eternity, and by four kinds of marriages, namely, for time proxy. If a Mormon marries a Gentile woman, it is for time only. At death he goes toheaven, and she goes to purgatory or perdition. He can call her out, and if he chooses, but I her union with him does not ensure her j

salvation, as it would if she was a believer. If a Mormon wants to save an unmarried woman, but does not want to add her to his harem, he has her -sealed to him for eternity only. After the ceremony of ■: sealing, they have no special relation to each other," or reciprocal 'rights and duties in this life. - But in the life to come, the Mormon maiden secures a place in heaven through her spiritual union with a masculine believer; for the Mormon theory is that unmarried men and women are imperfect, and as such not immortal. Marriage is necessary to complete a personality that will survive " the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds." According to the English papers, dress--ing at Brighton is characterised by boldness rather than by good taste. At a concert recently a young woman appeared dressed like a gigantic child, wearing a short—very short—loose frock without a waist, with an extremely wide brightyellow sash. , It would have done capitally for a fancy ball as " Baby." Accompanying this child was a person in a waggoner's smock frock, buckled in at the waist, the headgear a soft felt, in keeping with the dress. This would have done for the "Jolly Waggoner." Another, also more fitted for private theatricals than for walking, was a short blue serge with "a twinenet trimmed with corkß artistically enough draped, a red Masaniello cap on the head flesh-coloured hose and sand-shoes. Tarn O'Shanters are of every description and kind.