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Kumara Times, Issue 1605, 18 November 1881, Page 2

The annual election of Mayor of the Borough of Knrnara will take place on Wednesday, the 30th inst. Nominations for the appointment are to bo made at

the Town Clerk’s Office, Seddon street, to-morrow. We bear of two requisitions being in course of signature, but as yet no formal announcement has been made. Three gentlemen were nominated last year—Messrs O'Hagan, Blake, and Campbell. Mr Campbell was well supported when the election day came, and Mr Blake had several supporters, but, being absent from the colony at the time, his ■willingness to be returned was a matter of doubt, helhereby lost votes, and the choice fell to Mr O’Hagan. If, therefore, there be any intention on the part of the burgesses to make a change, or to re-instate Mr O’Hagan, such intention must be given notice of to the Town Clerk before noon to-morrow. [Since the foregoing was in type, we have received Mr O’Hagan’s requisition, which appears in another column.] The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council was last evening adjourned till this evening, at half-past seven o’clock. The departure of the Union Company’s s.s. Alhambra from West Coast ports for Sydney, via Melbourne and Newcastle, is deferred till Friday next, the 25th inst. Mr Barff desires us to contradict in the most emphatic manner a rumor which was most industriously circulated last evening to the effect that he intends to retire from the contest for the General Assembly. He will go to the poll against all coiners. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before J. O’Hagan Esq., J.P., Annie Hall, charged with drunkenness, was fined 10s, or in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. The household furniture and effects of Mr W. B. Robinson, advertised yestenhiy for auction, are for the present withdrawn from sale. Mr Brennan, late County Chairman, and Mr Robert Pattison, were returned for the Rsefton Riding of the Inangahua County Council by a a small majority. The husband of Mr Gladstone’s married daughter is head master of Wellington College. News has reached New York that the famous Sioux Indian chief “Spotted Tail” has been murdered by the chief (if the Indian Reservation Police, himself an Indian.