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Kumara Times, Issue 1563, 30 September 1881, Page 2

We understand a goodly number of tickets for the banquet to-night have been disposed of. It will no doubt be exceedingly gratifying to Mr R. J. Seddon to see that his admirers have taken so early an opportunity of recognising his acts in the Assembly ; and no doubt some personal explanation will be eagerly listened to when Host Stewart shall have been called in to remove the "eatables. The affair-will take place at the Town Hall at 10 o'clock. - :: - ;:; Mails for the Uuited Kingdom and Australian Colonies, per Rotomahana,, close at the Bluff, on Monday, 3rd October, at noon. ! In the Supreme Court, Hokitika, yesterday, his Honor Mr Justice Richmond presiding, a suit Stennard v. Mandl, for a dissolution of partnership was heard before a jury. The Court decreed a dissolution of partnership from January Bth last, the Registrar to take accounts ; the question of costs to be reserved.—ln the action Smith v. Stratford, to recover £SOO damages for false imprisonment, Mr South, with him Mr Purkiss appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Perkins for the defendant. The jury found a verdict for one shilling. His Honor declined to certify for costs. The Court adjourned at 8 p.m. until 10 a.m. this day.

A large number of the witnesses who gave evidence on the trial of M'Gahey, for murder, returned from Hokitika to Greymouth, by the Waipara yesterday, en route to Reefton. This was the only arrival or departure at the ports yesterday. There is to be a ball at Marsden, this evening, in aid of the Grey River Hospital. There will also.be one at Slattery's Hotel, Kumara. The feeling of abhorrence at the murderous assault on Presideut Garfield, exhibited by the British Press and people, is warmly commended in America, and some of the American journals express regret that the Government of the United States do not suppress the Fenian plots against England which are hatched in the States.

At a recent meeting of the Victoria Racing Club the following motion was carried :—" That the lowest weight for one mile and under on the flat be 6st. 81bs., for three-year-olds and upwards 6st., for all distances over a mile ; for steeple and hurdle races that the lowest weight be 9st. Tom Cannon, the English Jockey,- refused an offer of £1250 per annum from James R. Keene to act as the latter's private trainer. It is said Galley, the man who was wrongfully convicted of murder.in Exeter, England, in 1836, and whose case was heard in the House of Commons of 1879, is eking out a miserable existence in Australia. The heaviest winner over Iroquois was Mr Howland Bobbins,'a New York merchant, who secured £IB,OOO by backing the colt. The wrestling match for the championship of America and 400 dollars aside, between M'Donald of Canada, and Lynch, of the United States, took place at Halifax, and resulted in favor of the Canadian.

A new rule of racing has been adopted in England as follows : —lf a horse carry more than 2tbs. over-weight, which has not been duly declared, he is disqualified, unless the stewards be satisfied that such excess of weight has been caused by wet weather.

A "day census" of London is talked of. One was taken in 1866, when it was found that nearly three-quarters of a million people entered the city during the twenty-four hours.