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Kumara Times, Issue 1523, 15 August 1881, Page 2

August the 15th being the day on which is commemorated the festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, mass was celebrated this morning in the Roman Catholic Church at 9 and 11 o'clock ; and this evening there will be the usual Vespers and Benediction. Mails for San Francisco close at the Auckland office at 1 p.m. to-morrow. At the Ressdent Magistrate's Court this morning, before E. Barff, Esq., J. O'Hagan, Esq., and A. C. Campbell, Esq. J.Ps., Ann Russell was charged with the larceny of a window blind, valued .at Is 6d, the property of Mrs Dowling. Evidence was taken, and the offence proved. The prisoner was convicted and discharged.—The same prisoner was then charged with malicious injury to property, by breaking a window, the damage done being estimated at 10s. Mrs E. Dowling gave evidence to the effect that on Saturday evening last, the prisoner beat violently at the front door of witness's house in Main street, and then smashed the window, using the most horrible language all the time. The evidence of the arresting constable was also taken, and it was shown that the prisoner was an old offender. The Bench passed a sentence of two months'imprisonment, with hard labor, and adjudged the prisoner to pay the sum of 10s, the value of the property destroyed.—The same prisoner was then charged with smashing the windows of Mrs Taylor. The case was precisely similar to the last, and the prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment; with hard labor, and to pay the sum of 10s.—The same prisoner was then charged with having used obscene language in a public place. The evidence of Constable Nash proved the offence, and also the fact that it took two constables to take the woman to the lock-up. The prisoner was fined £3 ; or in default one month's imprisonment, with hard labor. As the prisoner left the box, she commenced to utter the most horrible execrations against the gentlemen on the Bench, and used language of a character which cannot be reported or described in print.

The Union Bank .agencies in this town and at Waimea are to be closed on the 31st inst.

The Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts will be open as usual this evening at eight o'clock.

A late cablegram from London states that Wallace Boss has challenged Hanlau to a sculling match for the championship.

The Grey County Council to-day meet "for the purpose of considering the- at present much-vexed question of the abolition of the gold duty, lately introduced into the House by Mr Seddon." Br. Bake well, cf Hokitika, will deliver a lecture in the Public Hall, Kumara, on Wednesday next, "On the .Physical Effects of Alcoholic Drinks oh the Etiuriaii System." The lecture will be under the auspices of the t.O.G.T. of Kumara; Musical selections are to be given by lady and gentlemen amateurs on the occasion; There will be no charge for admission.

Mr W. B. Moss, of Greymouth, was entertained by a number of influential citizens of that town on Saturday afternoon last, and preseuted with a purse of twenty guineas as a small token of esteeni and respect entertained for him by his fellow-townsmen with whom he had been brought in contact during his residence iii Greymouth. Mr Moss proceeds in the Grafton to Wellington, and from theiide to Australia, his intended destination.

A terrible gale has been blowing, aril has caused great damage in the east of London, on the 28th July. Several vessels have been wrecked, and forty people have been drowned.

Up to the present time (says a Dunedia paper) about 4300 copies of the revitfe* 1 edition of the New Testament have been disposed of by eight firms in Dunedin.

A London cablegram dated August 2 announces that Mr Pond, the well-known entrepreneur and caterer,'of the firm of Spiers and Pond, is dead. In reference to the West Coast mail service Mr Gisborne moved in the House on Weduesday last—" That this House* on the following day, will go into Conn mittee to address the Govertloi 1 } praying his Excellency to cause to be placed on the supplementary estimates the sum of £IOOO for a mail steam service between Hokitika and Puseygur Point Lighthouse* so as to secure the periodical visits every six weeks of a small steamer at the ports on the West Coast of the Middle Island-. '* The motion was carried. Prince Bismarck has completely re covered from his recent severe illness, and is now enjoying excellent health. When Ayoub Khan, continuing his advance on Gabul, reached the River Helmund, he again despatched an offer of peace to the Ameer on the basis of a divi= sion of territory,