The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1882.

Kumara Times, Issue 1734, 21 April 1882, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1882.

We remind our readers and the public of the entertainment which is to take place this evening in aid of the fund being raised to rebuild a Church of England parsonage in this town. The programme is an attractive one, and the circumstances which have given cause for this appeal to the public are such as should meet with general sympathy. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before E. Barff and J. O’Hagan, Esq., J.Ps., the adjourned case of Way v. Brewer came on for hearing. This was a claim for £9 Os 4id, for goods supplied. Evidence was taken and judgment was given for the amount claimed.

Messrs Wade and Spence held an auction sale to-day at Slattery’s Hotel, in Main street. The hotel was bought in for £IOO, by Mr Slattery himself. It is stated that the Cabinet vacancy created by Mr Hall’s resignation will probably not be filled before the session, but that the Ministry which will meet Parliament will be mainly the Hall Ministry, minus Mr Hall himself.

“ I thought it was a fire on the Christchurch road I” So spake several young people last evening who for the first time witnessed the reddish tints which covered a large portion of the south-western to southern sky from the horizon many degrees upwards. The tints were, as usual, accompanied by occasional streaks of white light or electricity shooting up from the horizon, and then vanishing into the deeper hue. They are consequent on the atmosphere being charged with a large amount of electricity, and generally disturb and interrupt telegraph operations. The Kumara office being closed at the time the effect was not of course noticeable { but at Greymouth, and probably through the Middle Island the ordinary tractable electric current became quite eccentric and (the Argus states) scarcely any telegraphing could be done until near midnight, and even then all the southern work had to be received by way of Blenheim instead of direct, as usual, showing that the disturbance must have been most active in the centre of the island.

The Rev. Mr Bunn, who succeeds the Rev, Mr Standage as pastor of the Wesleyan Church at Greymouth, has arrived in that town.

The wedding of Mr R. W. Wilson (stock and station agent) of Brisbane, to Miss Emma Marie, daughter of Madame Caran. dini, the great cantatrice, in Scots’ Church, Melbourne, caused great interest in the fashionable world, especially among the superior sex. The Rev. Charles Strong, minister of the,church, officiated, and the building was crammed. The best man was Mr Gilbert Wilson, the happy man’s brother, and the bridesmaids were Misses Turner, Parker, and Ida and Emily Palmer. The graceful figure of the bride was arrayed in pale cream grosgrain silk ; she wore a veil trimmed with old point, orange-blossom wreath, and a diamond necklace and cross given by her husband. The bride’s mother, Madame Carandini, looked very stately in a handsome dress of dark green grosgrain silk, trimmed with satin, old gold bonnet with pink feather, and dead gold jewellery. Mrs Palmer displayed a pale lavender satin with purple velvet train, set off with lace, and pansies in her bonnet. The dresses of the bridesmaids were pale green, with pink underskirts, and they each wore a brooch given by the bridegroom. Gainsborough hats of duck-egg green, lined with pale pink, surmounted with feathers and pearls, and pale pink gloves, completed a harmony of delicate colours seldom equalled for tastefulness and beauty.