The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1581, 21 October 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1881.

A proclamation has been issued by the Acting Governor of the Colony in a, Gazette Extraordinary, calling upon Te Whiti and -his adherents at Parihaka to accept the proposals made to them by the Government at the suggestion of the Royal Commissioners which would give to those people large and ample reserves ; and cautioning them that if they do not do this, they alone will be responsible for the passing away from them for ever the lands which are still proffered by the

Government, and for the great evil which must follow on them. Mamies who wish to live at peace with the Europeans are advised, in the event of To Whiti's refusal, to return to their homes, in order that they may not be involved with those who are working confusion, and may not suffer with them if this warning is neglected. "Who can distinguish," the Native Minister adds, "between those who desire peace and those whose work leads to disaster 1 The innocent and the guilty may suffer together, and this is not the desire of the Government.—W. M. Rolleston." We are pleased to see that the Government are at last resolved on a decided course of action, with these treacherous rebels.

The Westland portions of the San Francisco mail will arrive by coach from Christchurch to-morrow afternoon.

His Excellency Sir Arthur H. Gordon returned to Wellington, from Levuka, Fiji, on Wednesday night. His arrival was unexpected; but ib was owing to despatches he received from either Brisbane or Cooktown, of which the New Zealand Government, it is stated, knew nothing.

A sitting of the Warden's Court was held yesterday, at 11 a.m. In the suit Rnss v. Milwain, in which plaintiff sued for a dissolution of partnership, Mr Hannan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Seddon for the defendant. Evidence was taken, and the Warden advised the contending parties to endeavour to come to some arrangement. The parties left the Court, and shortly after returned, when it was announced that matters had been arranged. The case was dismissed. The case of Rowley and party v. W. L. Richards, was adjourned for a week.— An application of Sellars and party for a tunnel was objected to by Seddon and party, and was adjourned till the 10th of November.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before H. A. Stratford, Esq., R.M., Mary Shcedy was charged with having used obscene language to Margaret Mulholland on the 23rd of September last. After the evidence of several witnesses had been taken, the defendant was fined L2, and costs LI 9s, or in default seven days' imprisonment in the Hokitika Gaol, The sums were paid. There was one member deficient at the Town Hall last night at eight o'clock to form a quorum of the Borough Council for the transaction of business, and the intended meeting was postponed till Monday next. The following were the tenders sent in to the County Chairman on the 12th ult. for widening sections 4 and G of the track from Dillman's Town to Ohristchurch road. The names of the successful tenderers were published by us on the 13th inst. : —Section 4 Accepted : Langdon and Co., £3IS 2s Gd. Declined : Mon* tagu and Co., £SIG ; White and O'Leary, £350 10s; Martin, Caldwell and Co., £325 7s 6d ; John Whelan, £329. Sec* tion 6 Accepted : J. Whelan, Goldsborough, £322. Declined : Thomas and Co., „£353 ; Martin, Caldwell and Co., £4OB 2s Gd ; White and O'Leary, £477 ; Cairns and Co., £382 10s ; M'Kenzie and Sutherland, £447 lGs. Owing to an error made in dealing with the tenders for section 5, this section will not be let till Monday next, when a special meeting of the Council will be held to consider the matter.

It is hereby notified for general information that Money Order and Savings Bank Offices will be opened at Stafford (Chief Office, Hokitika), from and after the Ist November next; and at St. Andrew (Chief Office, Timaru), from and after the 17th October instant.

To-morrow evening Madame Lotti Wilmot, the celebrated "inspirational" lecturess, will (by desire) give her great discourse on "Forbidden Fruit." It need not be supposed that because this lady has chosen to prefix the word " inspirational" to her gifts as a "lecturess" that she is therefore endowed with something more than human mind can fathom or effort control, and consequently one whose sayings and doings should bo disbelieved and shunned as one would an imposter. She, indeed, possesses in a high degree, the qualifications necessary to make a good lecturess : she has had the benefits of a superior education ; has acquired a fluency of language to which few attain ; and she has the voice and physique which give force to her utterances. Still, there are few popular preachers or lecturers who have not some peculiarity or eccentricity, either in belief or mode of expression, and Madame Wilmot is not an exception. The lectures already given by her in this town were both instructive and useful, as the few who heard them will no doubt testify. On Sunday

her discourse will be on '' Freedom of Thought, or Atheism," and she will afterwards, if wished, argue the subject on the platform of the Theatre. The admission on these occasions will be 2s and Is.

Lighting the city of Dmiedin costs over four thousand pounds a year, or a little over one-fourth of the whole rates received. .

The nick-name of " Sleepy Hollow" (says the Telegraph) was given to somno l lent little Nelson yeai-s and years ago, and it was the present Governor of the Straits Settlment, Sir F. H. Weld, who christened it so so far back as 1853. He was then hanging about the Lands Office, morning after morning, endeavoring to purchase some land, and he and several other country sheep farmers at last complained to the then Commissioner of Crown Lands that, while the public hours were notified as from 10 to 12 a.m., it was seldom that any official stirred before the time of noon struck. Old Alfred Domett, who stood near, replied to the somewhat angry remark—" Why, Weld, don't you kuow this is a sleepy hollow, where people never stir before the sun is well up in the heavens?" " the 'Sleepy Hollow'" rejoined some of the impatient runholders, "we want to get home." And the term " Sleepy Hollow," stuck ever since to the pretty little town. Cats are being purchased in Wellington at 2s 6d per head. It is proposed to try an experiment with pussy in connection with the extermination of rabbits.

Strawberries grown in the open air have been shown in Auckland shop windows for the past four weeks. New Zealand sympathy with America in the loss of her President has cost something. The price of the Auckland cablegram to Washington was £32j and" that sent by Parliament from Wellington cost £42.

The loss of a large sum of money in Auckland was reported a short time ago. The Herald of Tuesday last says :—We understand that the widow lady, a resident of Otahuhu, who lost £250 the other day (namely, two £IOO notes and one for £SO) has recovered them. They were found by two children in one of the sidewalks at Epsom along which the lady had passed on her way to the residence of a friend. The father of the children brought them to the Bank of New Zealand yesterday morning, and the reward of £lO was paid over. The late census shows the population of India to be about 252,000,000.