The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1380, 4 March 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1881.

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council did hot take plkce last evening, in consequence of there not being a quorum ofCouncillors present. The funeral of the late Mr James Ryan was largely attended this morning, the whole of the business places in the town being closed from the time the mournful cortege left the deceased’s late residence for St. Patrick’s Church until the corpse was placed on the special tram to convey it to Greymouth. The Public Trustee notifies that all accounts against the late Mr Mollaumby must be forwarded to him (R. C. Hamerton, Esq.) or to F. A. Learmonth, Esq., Hokitika; to whom also all debts owing to the estate must be paid on or before the 16th hist.

In his Lenten Pastoral, Bishop Moran says :—On many previous occasions we ■called your attention to the all important of education, and urged on you the necessity of providing Catholic schools for Catholic children. It is consoling and encouraging to be able to bear witness to the docility and zeal with which you have responded to this call. Although comparatively few and poor, you have established and maintained many excellent •schools for both sexes at your own expense. But though much lias been done, very much still remains to be done. Renewed exertions, therefore, will be demanded of all, and the faithful of this diocese must continue to make great sacrifices, in order to hand down to their children the faith once delivered to the saints, and without which it is impossible to please God.”—Heb. xi., v. 6. Yon must trust in God and your own exertions

alone ; from the Government you can expect nothing. The Government and Legislature, whilst taxing ns for the support of godless and Protestant schools, refuse even the least aid to our own. All Government schools in this diocese are godless and hostile to the Catholic Church. Catholics cannot frequent them without exposing themselves to grievous dangers to their faith and morals. Of these schools, therefore, Catholics cannot avail themselves, except in cases of very great necessity, and when—such necessity being supposed—every possible precaution is being made to ward off all dangers to faith and morals. Parents and guardians should bear in miiid that they are responsible for the children under their charge, and often reflect on these words of the Apostle: “He that neglects his own, particularly those of his own household, has lost the faith, and has become worse than an infidel they cannot forget their obligation to bring up their children in the “ discipline and correction of the Lord.”

A Victorian paper says there is being fitted up near Melbourne a house which is to be called “The Celibate’s Retreat,” and which is intended for the accommodation of bachelors who wish for a more “free-and-easy style of living than is obtainable in a well-regulated household. Each celibate will have a separate bedroom and study, and there will be a common dining-room and parlor ; but at the same time should any celibate wish to dine solus, it will be allowed. The rules to be observed are punctuality, cleanliness, and temperance (not teetotality). No ladies will be allowed to enter the “Retreat,” but at the same time it is to be understood that these gentlemen do not make a vow to perpetuate their celibacy. Mr Paul C. Roussett, a Russian engineer, has invented a novel and ingenious deep-sea sounder. It consists of an ordinary registering log attached to an inflated balloon, and a head hung by a trigger at the bottom. The log is lowered into the sea. It sinks in a vertical position ; as it sinks the vanes of the indicator revolve, and the depth is correctly registered. When the sinker touches the bottom the trigger sets free from the balloon, which rises with the log to the surface and floats until it is picked up. In a lecture delivered at Paris a few weeks ago Pere Hyacinthe, the ex-priest, reviewed the condition of affairs in his native land. He declared that civil war, if not in the streets, was in men’s minds, noted the lack of dignity shown by the orders expelled under the decrees, and stated as his belief “danger for the Republic proceeds less from the Ultramon-tanes-than from the Materialists.”

The World is responsible for the following thrilling narrative Mr Gladstone seems to have been greatly petted in his visit to Sandringham, and it was by the Prince of Wales’s special desire that he read the morning lessons. On his departure his Royal Highness expressed himself anxious about the health of the Premier, and, with a view to the inclemency of the weather, pressed upon him the loan of a fur coat, which W. E. 6. gratefully but firmly declined. ” There need be no hesitation about accepting the statement as literally true. It is altogether too stupid to be an invention. But the World is only half informed, and its news is rather stale. • I should have added the date, the sth of November, and Mr Gladstone’s reason for refusing the courteous offer. He suspected that the Prince was playing a practical joke on him, to make him look like the hero of the day. Mr Passmore Edwards, M.P., has presented to the Salisbury Museum an Egyptian coffin and mummy. Dr Birch says of it : —“ The mummy’s name on the coffin is a married lady .or person named Unen, daughter of Har, a priest of Amen. The mummy is enveloped in a usual pinkcolored shroud, and is covered with a network of blue bugles, emblematic of the recovery of the body Osiris by nets in the Nile. It is about B.C. 700.”

The latest development of the land strike in the West of Ireland (says the Pall Mall Gazette), is the taking of a pledge on the part of the young unmarried men against marrying the daughters of “landgrabhers.” To “ landgrabbers” with large families of marriageable daughters such a resolution must seem by far the worst species of “ Boycotting” yet in-vented-sufficient in itself to justify the suspension of a dozen Acts of Habeas Corpus. It is true it is somewhat difficult to see how the Lord Lieutenant, even if he had the right to arbitrary arrest, could compel a reluctant bachelor to lead a “ landgrabber’s” disconsolate daughter to the altar; but as the same objection might be taken with regard to almost every other phase of the land strike, the suspension of the Habeas Corpus may as well be demanded to suppress any other form of “Boycotting.” It- would be equally “ vigorous ’’—and equally useless.

A motor yacht without steam now makes her way about Boston harbor. It illustrates the working of a compressed air petroleum engine. No smoke pipe is visible, for there is none, nor any need of any, for there is no smoke, and not so much fire as the flame of an ordinary kerosene lamp. The whole engine and running machinery are contained in a long, low box in the bottom of the boat, occupying scarcely more room than would be required for the ballast of a sailboat of its size. The peculiarity of this engine is that a common match brings it instantly into full working power. To those in search of merriment, visit S. S. Pollock’s, and obtain the great Irish song “The Babies in our Block,” or “Little Sally Waters”; price sixpence. [Advt.] .