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Kumara Times, Issue 1489, 6 July 1881, Page 2

The mail coach left the Beale'y this morning at the usual time, and arrived in Kumara at 3.15 this afternoon. There were a large number of persons followed the mortal remains of Mr R. J. Seddon's little girl " Katey" to her " long home" this afternoon; and several vehicles were in requisition, as the distance to Stafford Town (where the interment took place) is about tenmiles from Kumara. We clip the following Parliamentary items from the Argus :—The Financial Statement will be delivered to-morrow. It was deferred through the absence of so many members.—Government understand that the road from Nelson to Reefton, via Hampden and Lyell, will be open in about a month. When it is opened, Government will see what arrangements can be made for an ovei'land mail service by that route. —In reply to Mr Weston, Government, in the House, said that an overland mail service between Nelson and Reef ton will be established.—Messrs Weston and Reeves asked for a sum of money to be put on the Estimates for the completion of communication between Christchurch and Reef ton. —Mr Weston is in correspondence with the Government for the use of the dredge at Greymonth.— The Gaming and Lotteries Bill was partly considered in Committee. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, Reefton, on Thursday, an information was heard against Reuben Waite, accommo-dation-house keeper, Westport Road, with having been guilty of disorderly conduct in his licensed house, on Monday, June 20th. The evidence was conflicting, although one witness admitted that himself and Waite were a little elevated. His Worship inflicted a fine of £1 and costs.

The Licensing Court sat the same day, and the matter of the adjourned consideration of Waite's application for license was dealt with* The Commissioners decided that an accommodation license should be granted subject tD applicant transferring the management of his house to some eligible person prior to August 11th, lo which date the Court was adjournedi MrF> Tofield, jeweller, Duhedin, the Other day, weighed a magnificent diamond) the property of &n old Victorian gold digger, but now the owner of a diamond field in South Africa, and found in it no less than 115 carats and a half. The dia* mond (the Herald says) Was a perfect brilliant of the first water, and is valued at £60,000. Our friend, as a master jeweller, spoke in high terms of its purity, as being the moßt brilliaut ever seen. The gentleman who owned it also had some smaller diamonds worth from £l5O to £2OO apiece, all of which were obtained from the same mine which covers an area, of 12 miles on the surface and gradually decreasing to 7 miles at the bottom. The diamond is on its way to England, where the happy possessor intends to exhibit it. The San Francisco telegrams, as published by our Christchurch and Dunedin morning contemporaries (says the Morning Herald) contain a striking proof of the truth of spiritualism. Cardinal Wiseman, who died many years ago, is, we are told, now having his portrait painted by a cele* brated London artist. There should be no more doubters after this.

John Most, editor of the Frieheit, for expressing a desire to have all the monarchs of Europe assassinated, was asked by the English judge to retire for 16 years. He is to be allowed to make the Most of it, with hard labor.