The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1462, 4 June 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1881.

The reply of the Chairman of the Local School Cohanittee to remarks and correspondence which have lately appeared in these columns is unavoidably held over until Monday. The mail coach from Christchurch left the Bealey this morning, at the usual hour, carrying a large mail besides the West Coast portion of the San Francisco mails. It arrived this afternoon at 3p. m., and the mails were immediately sorted and delivered in town. Mr Rugg’s coach also arrived at the same hour;

Mr Halse, Government Auditor, was busy all day to-day at the Post and Telegraph Offices, Kumara, making the most minute investigations ; with, we understand, a satisfactory result.

A sermon in the German language will be preached in the Presbyterian Church, Kumara, to-morrow morning, at 11 o’clock, by the Rev. Theodore Heine.

All persons desirous of joining -the Kumara Branch of the Irish National Land Lfeague are requested to attend a general meeting which will be held in St. Patrick’s cchbol-room to-morrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock. All lady sympathisers with the cause are requested to attend a meeting which Will be held, also to-morrow afternoon, at S o'clock, for the purpose of being enrolled as tnelnbers j considering the necessity of enlarging the Executive Committee, ahd for other business, Mr T. S: Weston was a passenger by the coach this afternoon from Christchurch. He proceeds to Greymouth, where he will address the electors of the Grey Valley early next week;

The amount realised at the entertainment given to Mr George King in June last has been gradually accumulating by the active exertions ot those kind friends who had the management of the affair until it has been supplemented by fully £2O : and the total amount recently for-

warded him reached the handsome sum of £sl 10s. Mr King, it will be remembered, proceeded to Melbourne to undergo an operation to restore his sight; but the treatment was not successful, and he is now living in the suburbs of Melbourne, totally blind.

Michael Hanfian, son of Mr D. Hannan, of this town, articled clerk to Mr Perkins, solicitor, of Greymouth, who presented himself for examination for the first time, at the Supreme Court, Hokitika, last March, received a telegram yesterday from Wellington informing him that he had passed the Solicitors General Knowledge Examination. This boy received his education from Mrs Dawson, who at one time taught a private school at Stafford, and afterwards at St. Patrick’s schools, Goldsborough and Kumara. He received the highest number of marks of any pupil examined by Inspector Smith at his first pupil teacher examination, Hokitika, all schools being then subsidized, Prior to his entering Mr Perkins’ office, he went for a short time to St. Patrick’s school, Greymouth. Mr Clements, of Greymouth, was his late teacher in advanced subjects. A telegram from Wellington informs us that the following gentlemen have been appointed Justices of the Peace :—John Arnott, Greymouth ; Thomas Baillie, Westport; A. C. Campbell and T. R. Connell, Kumara. We may congratulate this community on the gentlemen chosen for Kumara. They are appointments not made too soon, and will be the means of obviating much inconvenience which has been experienced in the past. The coat of the Colony of the San Francisco mail service is £BOOO. The subsidy is £40,000, but the postages recoup most of it.

The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says :—The preparation of Bills for the session goes on rapidly, and the Licensing, Charitable Aid, and Regulation of Elections Bills, are in a forward state of progress. The Representation Bill necessarily awaits the completion of the census returns. Other measures are under consideration, including, it is said, one for facilitating the working and amalgation of County Councils, Land Boards, and other local bodies, and the extension of their powers ; also one for enabling grants of land to be made in aid of important railways, the construction of which will be undertaken by private companies. I have, of course, no official information regarding these last two, and am merely reporting current rumor.

Miss Charlotte G. O’Brien, writing in the “Nineteenth Century,” proposes to settle the Irish difficulty on new and original lines. She would abolish Parliamentary Government, place Ireland under Lord Dufferin or Sir C. G. Duffy as a Governor-General, in whose hands would lie the whole power of the executive and army. She would entrust local affairs to a local assembly of each province, composed of 100 members elected by universal suffrage. These provincial assemblies should elect a national Council composed of 25 representatives for each province, which would manage all public affairs. “I would govern the people,” she writes, “ by elected magistrates and Crown resident magistrates, elected grand juries and Crown judges; a police governed by the local assemblies ; an army governed by the Crown.