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Kumara Times, Issue 1579, 19 October 1881, Page 2

The East Coast mails via Christchurch, Springfield and the Bealey, arrived at the Kumara post-office at 3.15 p.m. Tho Westland portion of the San Francisco mail is expected to arrive by coach from Christchurch on Saturday. The Warden’s and Resident Magistrate’s Courts were held to-day. Our report will appear to-morrow.

Tho scale of fees to be charged in respect of the occupation for mining or other purposes of any portion of the Kumara Education Reserve, under section 5 of the “ Kumara Education Reserve Act, 1879,” are published in our advertising columns.

It will be seen by a notice which appears in the preceding column that money orders up to £lO are now issued at New Zealand post-offices on towns in Germany. By request, Madame Wihnot has consented to deliver her lecture on “ Free-! dom of Thought ” or Atheism, (instead of the one mentioned last evening), at the Theatre Royal, Kumara, on Sunday evening next.

At tho meeting of the Hospital Committee last night, it was resolved to dispense with the services of the female nurse, Mrs Cooper.

Mr C. Peters, Dillman’s Town, received this afternoon another book of tickets in Messrs Fleming and Stapleton’s Novelty Consultation on the New Zealand Metropolitan Meeting to be run at Christchurch next month.

All Saints’ Day, Ist November, has been finally appointed for the consecration of the nave of the Christchurch Cathedral. The Bishop of Auckland is unable to be present, but the Bishops of Nelson, Wellington, Dunedin, and Waiapu, have accepted the invitation of the Primate, and have promised to attend and take part in the opening services. The Bishop of Melbourne, who was specially invited, and other Australian Bishops, will be prevented from attending, if not by other engagements, by the meeting of the Cenei'al Synod of the Church of Australia and Tasmania, which is to be opened on 10th October, at Sydney.

A letter of Naturalisation, under “ The Aliens Act, 1880,” has been issued in favor of Jacob Peter Wandt, miner, Reefton.

The Dunedin papers state that “ Thorpe Talbot,” a lady whose poems and novelettes have so frequently been well received, has won the first prize of £IOO, given by the Melbourne “ Leader” for a colonial-written novel. The standing armies of Europe number over 2,100,000 men. A daily paper without a name is reported to have been started in Cincinnati. A fisherman has found a place in Lake Erie where he sounded with a line two miles long and could find no bottom. It is said (says the New York World) that the arrangements of the English Home Office with informers in the “ skirmishing ” and Fenian ranks are so complete that the Horae Secretary often reads a summary of the articles of the “skirmishing” weeklies before the papers are printed in New York. It is believed that the warning received by the Home Office, touching the shipment of the infernal machines, came from a leading Irish “ patriot ” to Paris.