The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1515, 5 August 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1881.

The District Court will open at Hokitika on Monday next, at 10 a.m. His Honor Judge Broad, we observe, arrived by the Charles Edward yesterday. Mr John Cameron will put on a special coach on Monday morning next for the conveyance of jurors and other persons attending the District Court, Hokitika. The coach will leave the Empire Hotel, Kumara, at 6.30 a. m.

In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr Finn gave notice lie would ask " Whether the Resident Magistrate and Warden at Kumara did, on a recent occasion, open his Court for the transaction of business between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m., and whether he did during such hours take the evidence of certain girls between the age of 10 and 15 years, and also at 3 a.m. issue a warrant for the arrest of a young lady, named Miss Marlow, who failed to appear before him at that hour, to give evidence in a case then being tried ; and, if so, what action Government intend to take under the circumstances."

Mr Davidson, blacksmith, of this town, has just completed k T 'J:>ittle Giant" hydraulic nozzle for the 'owners of the Dunedift. claim, Dunedin Flat, Diliman's. The shareholders ih this claim have spared no expense from time to time in adapting to their wants the latest improvements for ground-sluicing, and this new nozzle will be capable of throwing a jet of water equal, we are informed, to about 10 or 11 heads with the 5-inch nozzle, and 14 or 15 heads of water with the 6-inch nozzle. The length of the pipe from the universal joint is about 10 feet, and, when properly mounted, will command all points of the compass at the angles of elevation required. The work reflects great credit on the makers. At a meeting of Greymouth citizens held there last evening for the purpose of taking steps to establish a high school for the district of Westland, the Argus reports there was a considerable attendance of influential citizens, and his Worship the Mayor occupied the chair. The following resolutions were put and unanimously carried : opinion of this meeting it is desirable that a high school for the West Coast should be established at Greymouth." (2.) "That the members for the district be requested to prepare and introduce at once a bill to carry into effect the foregoing resolutions." (3.) " That his Worship the Mayor be requested to forward the two foregoing resolutions passed at this meeting to Messrs Weston and Reeves, M.H.Rs."

The Wellington correspondent of the West Coast Times, telegraphing last evening, states :—(1.) The Gold Duty Reduction Bill (Seddon), passed the second reading. It was referred to the Goldfields Committee. The bill proposes to reduce the duty to one slulling per ounce. The Goldfields Committee will probably insert a clause for itß total abolition." (2.) "Mr Weston's bill intituled 'The Offences Against the Person Act, 1867, Amendment,' was fully discussed last evening in the Assembly. The Bill only contained two clauses—The first in reference to indecent assaults, and the second providing whipping for wife beating. A number of members condemned the bill; particulai'ly the second clause, among others Messrs Reid, Seddon, and Fisher. A division was taken—Ayes 19, Noes 23. The bill was consequently thrown out." (3.) "Mr Weston asked the Native Minister, whether Government will introduce a bill, dealing with Native reserves at Greymouth, to the end that the holdings of the inhabitants of Greymouth may be secured.—The Native Minister replied that a bill with that object was in the hands of the Attorney-General, and would be brought down this session."

Since the list of subscriptions to the Reefton Hospital, were published, in June last, further contributions have been received amounting to £62 15s Bd, making the total for the year 1881-82 £ll2 8s Bd.

A Wellington paper says .-—Among the curiosities of the census returns there is a case, well authenticated, of a girl nine years of age with a child two months old. The report was at first doubted at the central office when the return came in and an investigation was ordered with the result of establishing the truth. The case is here regarded as one of the most curious ever known.

Rabbit skins are now fetching from 2s 6d to 3s per dozen in Southland.

At South Hummocks, near Adelaide, a farmer named August Zilm, while attempting to shoot a dog, accidentally killed his daughter, two years old, who toddled in front of the gun, the shot completely tearing away her scalp. ' In the war between Chili and Peru, Chili lost 3276 killed, 5610 wounded, without counting 390 prisoners ; Bolivia, 920 killed, 1210 wounded, 300 taken prisoners; Peru, 9672 killed, 4431 wounded, 7020 taken prisoners.

Professor Denton, the noted geologist, believes this globe of ours will exist as a habitation for man eighty millions of years yet. He also expresses belief that the volcanoes and the earthquakes will be utilised yet by man.

The following Irish prophecy is said to have been uttered in GGO, when Coreagh (Cork) was a marsh, by St. Molago, and has been revised, translated, printed, and is being circulated everywhere in Ireland. It has been sent to the Irish members of the House of Commons, and read in the lobbies. The lines are : Eighteen eighty-one, the stranger is undone, • In Conreagh shall be seen the red beneath the green. Eighteen eighty-three, McCarthy's sons are free, The green above the red, the lion's litter dead.

The fact has transpired that many of the natives in the interior of Australia have taken to opium smoking.