The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1882.

Kumara Times, Issue 1678, 14 February 1882, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1882.

To-day is St. Valentine’s Day. It is said that on this day in some parts of Europe the birds choose their mates, whence, probably, came the custom of young people choosing valentines or particular friends. We understand the postal department to-day was unusually active. The electors within the Licensing District of Arahura are reminded that tomorrow is the day appointed for the election of five persons to constitute the Licensing Committee for the district of Arahura. Messrs John M‘Whirter and

William Wilson having withdrawn, there remain ten candidates, whose names and abodes are as follow : —Fergus Barrowman, William Morris, Dugald M‘Kinnon, Frederick Stanhope, and Thomas Tennant, are residents of Dilhnan’s Town ; James Francis Byrne, John Williams, and Charles Weiss, of Stafford ; and Michael Henry Fitz Gibbon, John Tennant, of Goldsborough. The polling places are the Court House, Stafford ; Coui’t House, Goldsborough ; Mr Stanhope’s, Dillman’s Town ; Literary Institute, Callaghan’s ; and Moller’s Store, Fox’s. The poll will open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m.—to-morrow (Wednesday). Ratepayers whose property has recently been valued by the County and Borough Valuators for the purposes of rating such property are reminded that objections to the Valuation Lists must be left for the Arahura Riding at the Resident Magistrate’s Court House, Goldsborough, and for the Borough, at the Town Clerk’s Office, Kumara, in each case not later than to-morrow (Wednesday). Messrs Petrie and Robinson have succeeded in getting a special vote for the Education Board of Westland of £ISOO, so states a telegram to the Greymouth Star last evening. The nominations for the Marsden Licensing Committee were as follow -.—William Bell, Patrick O’Donnell, Joseph Sherratt, Thomas Waugh, Frank White, and John Young. Messrs W. Wade and Co. to-day publish a list of prices at which some of their goods are to be cleared out, in consequence of winding up business. Te Whiti and Tohu (the Taranaki Herald remarks) do not manifest any signs of discontent with prison life. They are well cared for, being supplied with comforts which are not usually allowed to prisoners, and they have consequently no cause for complaint. Their Parihaka friends do not appear to visit them very often, Te Whiti’s relations only having visited him three or four times since his imprisonment. The prisoners do not appear to be very anxious to know what is going on at Parihaka, and indeed their indifference on this subject is quite remarkable.