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Kumara Times, Issue 1408, 6 April 1881, Page 2

The Wanaka, with the southern portions of the English mail via San Francisco, left the Manukau yesterday. A proclamation in the Gazette prorogues Parliament to the 17th May. We are pleased to see by our Wellington telegrams that a cablegram has been received there announcing the arrival at San Francisco of the missing steamer City of New York. No reason is given of the cause of her delay. The Comedy and Burlesque Company reappear at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening. Mr O’Connor, engineer, and party, who left Christchurch last week to report on the railway route, via Cannibal Gorge, are reported to have reached Reefton last evening. A correspondent at Dillraan’s Town favors us with the following;—“The Wesleyan Sunday School of Dillman’s Town held theie usual Teacher’s Meeting on Monday evening, the 4th instant, the Rev. G. Hall minister of the circuit presiding. After the usual questions had been passed over, Mr Haymes, the secretary, read the financial statement, which showed a deficiency of £2 10s, which the teachers made up there and then. During the past year their school has been enlarged and lined at a cost of about £3O. The chairman expressed great pleasure and thankfulness for the state the school was in, both spiritually and financially. Then came the most pleasing part of the evening’s proceedings : Mr Eckett, in a few and well-chosen remarks, presented to their esteemed pastor, the Rev. G. Hall (who is about to leave Kumara) ‘Wesley’s Journal and Notes on the New Testament,’ 15 volumes in all. Mr Hall feelingly acknowledged the presenta-

tion, after which Mrs Haymes kindly provided cocoa and cake for the company. After spending an hour in social talk and a game of proverbs, the meeting terror nated with the benediction.” Tenders for road protective works at Goldsborough will be received up to Wednesday next, 13th inst. Specifications can be seen at Mr R. J. Seddon’s, or at Mr M'Whirter’s store, Goldsborough. A Mrs Pell, long resident in Charleston, fractured her ancle a few days ago by accidentally falling down on the Darkies’ Terrace road. A prize of £lO is offered by the Civil Service Examination Board for the best essay on “The Constitutional Influence of the House of Commons in England on Questions of Peace and War.” The competition was on the Bth March open to all persons under the age of 25 years who have passed either the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and who are in the Service at the time of competition. Essays to be legibly written, and on one aide of the paper only, and to be delivered to the Secretary of the Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by the 31st December, 1881. For list of prizes in a grand art-union at Hokitika see fourth page.—[Ad VT.] 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.]