The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1525, 17 August 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1881.

The mail coach from the east left the Bealey at the usual early hour this morning, and arrived at the Kumara post-office at 3.25 p.m. In our report yesterday of applications and other business at the Warden's Court, we neglected to mention for the

information of the parties not present that Mr D. Hannan appeared for the following persons -.-—Ah Sue and party, Robert Anderson and party, David Harrild and party, Scott Irvin and party ; and also, by special leave in the R.M. Court, for the defendant in the case of G. B. Way v. Accetta. Mr Barff appeared for an objector against Sellars and party (5 acres), for Turnbull and party objecting to the application of Scott Irvin and party (o acres), iot O'Neill and patty Objecting t 6 Scott irvih's application foi? 5 acres ; and for P. Dilggaii, objecting to the application of D. Hannan.

In the Public Hall this evening Dr. Bakewell will deliver a lecture "On the Physical Effects of Alcoholic Drinks on the Human System." The subject is one that should draw together a very large audience ; and for those to whom the subject may not be sufficiently interesting, a few musical selections by lady and gentlemen amateurs are announced.

The Hon. Mr Gisborne intends to move as an amendment on the Re-distribution Bill, that the basis of population alone in the distribution of representation is not suitable to the requirements of the Colony ; and secondly, that the principle of dividing the whole Colony into single electorates is unsatisfactory.

The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Morning Herald, telegraphing on Wednesday last, states:—" It is rumored that Mr Maxwell, Manager of Railways, has had a serious quarrel with the Hon. Mr Hall, in the latter's capacity as Minister of Public Works ; that he has set Mr Hall at defiance, and that he has sent in his resignation, which will only too gladly be accepted by the Government. The report comes from sources which appear to guarantee the correctness of the statement. The subject of quarrel has not been made known precisely, but there are several versions about it. A denial is understood to be given to the report both by Mr Hall and Mr Maxwell, but it is asserted that the denial is of an official kind."

On Saturday next Messrs Wade and Spence will hold two auction sales, one of chiefly household furniture at the resir dence of the late head teacher Kumara State School, the other of the stock-in-trade of Mr Mogdridge, draper, &c, totogether with the house and section, which is nearly opposite the Town Hall.

The death of Mr Joseph Webb, tailor, of Nelson, is announced in the Colonist of Thursday last. To the deceased is that town largely indebted for the beautifying and adorning that it received through his instrumentality.

A hand-ball match, for £lO a-side, was played in the ball-alley at Gleeson's Hotel, Auckland, lately, between Messrs Gleeson and Courtney. The match was won by the former. Another match was to be played on the following day between the same parties.

A surgeon in Christchurch has extracted the jaw of a woman who suffered from cancer.

We recently stated that the first diamond found in South Africa was obtained in the interior by a travelling pedlar from a child, (the child of a Boer) who was playing with it. The trader having' confided to the girl's father his belief that the pebble was a diamond, the trader agreed to halve the profit with him should his surmise prove correct. The Queen's jewellers pronounced it to be worth £SOO, and at this price it was purchased by Sir Phillip Woodhouse, at that time Governor of Cape Colony. The receipt of half this by the parent Boer called to his recollection tlie fact that he had seen a similar stone in the possession of a native, and seeking him out, he gave him, says Mr Murray, nearly all he possessed sheep, horses, &c—in exchange for his pebble. It proved to be a diamond of 83 carats, and he obtained for it £11,200. This is the stone now in the possession of the Countess of Dudley, and known as the " Star of South Africa." Among the gentlemen proposed as candidates for election as members of the Dunedin Jockey Club lately, was the Chinese merchant, Sew Hoy. We understand that a now weekly paper, in the interests of the licensed victuallers and the trade generally, will be published in Christchurch at the beginning of next month. A cable message has been received at Wanganui announcing the death in London in the last week of July, of Dr. Taylor, who was recently in practice at Marton, near Wellington, and had gone home on a visit to his parents. The Bishop of Sydney has recently married a third wife, whom he had baptised in her infancy.

The South Australian Legislature lately rejected a motion for payment of members by 22 to 6. The Cotopaxi, on her last voyage to the colonies, brought £2G,000 worth of new silver coinage. In the course of a very eloquent sermon at Sydney, the Rev. Dr Ellis remarked that the most devout worshipper di God he had ever known was a poor balletdancer in London, She was a widow, and was the sole support of lier mother, two sisters, and three children. Apples sent from Adelaide, fetched foufpence per pound in the London market.

One thousand sii Hundred cases of small pox are now in the London hospitals, and the epidemic ia increasing rapidly.

The Russian Government sent into Siberia during the month of May twelve thousand convicts.

A young lady named Ida Foster, of San Francisco, daughter of Peter B. Foster (deceased), of the Morning Call, after quarrelling with her lover, took strychnine and died in his presence.