The Kumara Times. Published Every Evenings. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1503, 22 July 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evenings. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1881.

At the Resident Magistrate's Coux-t this morning, before J. O'Hagan, Esq.* J.P., and A. C. Campbell, Esq., J.P., Lotty Willshire was charged with maliciously wounding Eiiaabeth Reece with a glass candlestick, and was sentenced to three months' hard labor in the Hokitika Gaol. A report of the case will be given to-morrow.

To-morrow evening Mr, Mrs> and Miss Hart, will make their appearance at the Theatre Royal. The fame and renown which these distinguished artistes gained on the Coast some few years ago made them general favorites; and now ihey will be assisted by Mr Walter Kerby, who adds greatly to the success of tho entertainments given by the company. The Press speak highly of their repertoire, which is "varied and extensive, and their singing and acting equally artistic and agreeable."

The Bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister is now law in New Zealand, and it may be of interest to some of ouv readers to know in what a peculiar fashion relationships may now be confused.

Thus B and 0 are sisters ; B is married to A, they have a son, D ; B dies, and A espouses C ; A and C have a daughter, E. It will be obvious that A was C's brother-in-law, and. that her daughter E is his niece. Dis A's son, and C's nephew, and is also nephew to his aunt's husband. The most awkward positions are those held by D and E, who are brother and sister, and also cousina, and are, therefore, legally able to marry.

The Auckland Herald devotes several columns in various issues to criticism and to the changed in the new version of the New Testament, and says :—" There will be a great demand for the volume when the booksellers receive stocks by the next mail, and Biblical criticism will undoubtedly be a fashionable study for some time. What the event may be, it is somewhat difficult to predict—whether the new version will gradually supersede the old, or the old maintain its place, and the new die away. We give elsewhere an entire chapter from the Sermon on the Mount, in order that it may be compared with the Authorised Version. If any of our readers are anxious to know how any particular passage is made to read in the Revised Testament, we shall print such passages, providing compliance with the request do not encroach too much on our space." Two million copies have already been sold.

On the last day of the Adelaide Birthday Meeting £GIOB passed through the totalisators. The best dividend of the day was that on the City Handicap, won by Miss Hai-riet, the investors of £1 receiving no less than £2O 6s. During the four days £21,410 passed through the machines, and the Club netted thereby £I2OO.

A number of maiden ladies, residents in the Tyrol, had such faith and interest in New Zealand as to invest largely in several of our joint stock companies, notably the New Zealand and South British Insurance Companies and Auckland Gas Company. Why don't they add to their enterprise (a contemporary remarks) by emigrating to these shores. Maidens who are able to invest largely should find a ready welcome from young colonists.

The Central Australasian gets off a story to the effect that when the telegraph office was opened at Cobor, the editor of the local paper and some of the leading military men sent a telegram to Queen Victoria, congratulating all parties on the event. In reply, the following telegram was received :—" Am delighted to find telegraph wire extended so fi.r into interior of Africa, and that the native chief and his officers understand the English language."

At the antipodes we reverse things. At London, Mr Ashmead Bartlett, the thirty-year-old bridegroom of the maiden sixty-year-old Baroness Burdett Coutts is threatened with an action for breach of promise, whilst at Melbourne, the very much married and ancient Mrs Coutts has just gained substantial damages from a thirty-year-old deceiver for non-fulfilment. Three out of four Cape ostriches on the Chimborazo for Adelaide, died from the effects of the rough weather. There was a scene in a fashionable church the other day. The respectable church-warden— a bank manager of the most aggresssive orthodoxy— was carrying round the bag for a collection, when a little girl who had been overdosed with scripture history and had learned to detest "The purse-bearer," broke into a terrified scream of "Oh, mamma, mamma, here's Judas coming !' : Mrs Clara S. Folts has been called to the Californian Bar. The Echo says : "Mrs Folts is a widow, who has pursued her studies under difficulties that would have discouraged most men, having no property to speak of and five small children to provide for. Most of the time she has done her own house work, and has occassionally delivered lectures to eke out a subsistence. She has now passed successfully through a service examination. A woman who can do all that for herself i 3 likely, we should say, to take good care of her clients."

A gentleman, anxious to ascertain the effect of transplanting by night instead of by day, made an experiment, with the following results :—He transplanted ten cherry trees while in bloom, commencing at four o'clock in the afternoon. Those transplanted during daylight shed their blossoms, producing little or no fruit, while those transplanted in the dark maintained their condition fully. He did the same with ten dwarf trees after the fruit was was one-third grown. Those transplanted during the day shed thin fruit; those transplanted durin.c the night perfected their er..-p and showed no

injury from having been removed. With each of these trees he moved some earth with the roots. The incident is fully vouched for, and if a few similar experiments produce a like result, it will be a strong argument to horticulturists, &c, to do such work at night.