The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1369, 19 February 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1881.

A public titeeting is convened by his Worship the Mayor, at the request of a large number of the residents of the town, •on Monday evening next, to take into consideration the question of an increased water-supply for this goldfield. The meeting is, we take it, to supplement the action of the miners at Dillman's Town last Monday week ; and if the business portion of the community only show one half the interest in the matter, which it is clearly to their advantage to do, that the bone

and sinew Of thia district have already done, there "should be a large attendance on the occasion. A meeting of the (Jommittee '6l the Kumara Literary Institute was held las't evening at the Reading Room ; Rev. E. A. Scott (in the chair), Messrs Smart, Duckworth, Petrie, Dennett, and Janion. The meeting was called for the purpose of making arrangements for the lecture to be given next Friday evening, by Mr Bevan, of Hokitika. Mr Harre was elected a member of committee in room of Mr Cooper, who at a previous meeting had been appointed to the gecreship. The synopsis of Mr Bevan's humorous lecture appears among the .advertisements. The chaplain to the Bishop of Christchurch, the Rev. C. W. Harris, is now on a visit to this district, inspecting the various Sunday Schools of the diocese. We understand that the reverend gentleman will preach at Holy Trinity Church tomorrow evening. The Rev. W. E. Gillam is announced to preaeh in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow morning and evening. Mr Gillam is a student of Richmond College, and has recently come Out to the Colony. He has been appointed by the Wesleyan Conference to the Durham * street Church, Chrißtchurch. The reverend gentleman is on a visit to WestlancL, and during his stay at Hokitika has attracted large audiences in the Wesleyan Church there. The only representative of the local Rifle Contingent at the meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association, which will commence at Nelson on the Ist of March next, will be Corporal Sampson, as, although two other members of the Contingent intended competing, they are unable, we understand, through business engagements, to leave town. According to the "Golos" an ice railway is projected between Constadt and Oraniehbaum, principally for the transport of goods. The Baltic Railway Company will supply the necessary rolling stock for this branch, which will of course communicate directly with the main line. A certain amount'Of traffic must be guaranteed before a beginning is made; but once this is done, and the ice has attained the requisite thickness, sfee work will begin by the laying of the rails, &nd the whole business will be finished within eight days. The time is not too sh<Srt for the laying of an absolutely level line Without either cuttings or and With a surface of exactly the same consistency throughout. The gentleman who attracted attention in church last Sunday by crying out " Holy Moses," had no intention of disturbing the congregation. He had been tacking down carpets the day before, and just as he sat down in his pew he suddenly remembered he had half a paper of tacks in his coat skirt-pocket. The following story is so good that it 3oxmds apocryphal. Its veracity, however, is vouched by a Registrar of Births and Deaths not ten miles from Axbridge. A woman came to him with two children, twins, and expressed a wish to register theit birth. " What are their Christian names?" inquired the careful Registrar. "Cherubim and Seraphim, please sir," replied the'woman. "What 3" exclaimed the astounded Registrar. "Cherubim and Seraphim" reiterated the woman. " What in the name of all that's wonderful makes you wish to give them those names 1" asked the perplexed Registrar. " Because," answered the woman, " they continually do cry." Just published, and on sale at S. S. Pollock's, the great Irish song "Little Sally Waters," or "The Babies in our Block." Price sixpence.—[Advt.]