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Kumara Times, Issue 1502, 21 July 1881, Page 2

In the cross-examination in Court on Tuesday morning by Mr Purkiss of Miss Mary Galland we are requested by the young lady referred to correct a statement which appeared in our last issue. Miss Galland is reported by us to have said: "My father did not ask me, but my mother asked me to say something of what I have said." The sentence should have read :—My father did not ask me, neither did my mother ask me to say something of what I have said. We willingly correct the sentence and are vexed that it should have occurred. Indeed, we were extremely sorry for the sake of the family that we felt it our bounden duty to publish the evidence in full of this most remarkable of cases of indecent assault on the part of the head of a respectable family. We entertain the highest esteem for all the other members of the family and sympathise (and we are sure the general public do too) with them under this severe ordeal. Probably such an array of beautiful young girls never before appeared as witnesses for the prosecution and defence in any case in Court either in New Zealand or Australia ; and the protracted hour of the night (when they would otherwise have been slumbering in calm repose) at which they were one by one summoned to the witness-box to give evidence t was enough to make the hardest heart bow down ; whilst it seemed only to add fuel to the fire of censure that should come upon the head of the author of all these scandalous and infamous actions.

The talented Company of "Happy Hours" celebrity, including Mr and Mrs Hart, Miss Hart, and Mr Walter Kerby, gave a benefit to the Hokitika Hospital at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, last evening, on which occasion there was a crowded house. The performance of Mrs Hart was received with continued applause, the acting, singing, and dancing of that lady being capital. The company will open at Kumara on Saturday evening, and play at Kanieri this evening and Stafford to-morrow evening. Adepts in the clearing of land are invited to send in tenders to Mr R. Millson, of Dillman's Town, for such work over thirteen acres which are situate in Union street, opposite the slaughter yard.

At the meeting of the Grey County Council yesterday, applications were received from all the Licensing Commissioners, except those for Ahaura for one guinea each expenses. The following are the names of the Commissioners .-—Messrs J. Arnott, J. G. Thomas, Francis Hamilton, John O'Hagan, John Gow, H. A. Stratford. The claims were disallowed on the ground that notice had already been given that the Council would not pay such claims any longer. Several accounts in connection with the cost of conveyance of commissioners were passed. The largest telescope in the world—that of Mr Grubb, of Dublin—27 inches aperture, will be outdone by the instrument which has been ordered for the Lick Trustees, San Francisco, with an apertm-e of 36 inches. The cost is to be £IO,OOO.

The sons of the Russian Emperor are called Czardines.