The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1882.

Kumara Times, Issue 1747, 6 May 1882, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1882.

In the Warden’s Court yesterday, the suit of Montgomery and patty v Henderson and Ryan, came on for hearing.- Mr Hannan appeared for the plaintiffs,- and Mr Guinness for the defendants. This was an action for trespass on a double area claim at Cape Terrace. Unusual interest was taken in this case, in consequence of a portion of the land in dispute having been originally a part of Rowley’s claim (in litigation), and also that the trespass complained of was committed on the 20th ult., in the excitement of the pegging off match, at the moment signals were given indicating that Rowley’s claim was declared by the Warden to be Crown lands. After several witnesses had been examined, it was shown by overwhelming testimony that Henderson had overshot the mark, and placed pegs, and cut trenches in plaintiffs’ claim instead of that formerly held by Rowley. Judgment for the plaintiffs, 10s damages, 24s costs of Court, Advocates fee £1 Is, and £llO for three witnesses. Another similar case by the plaintiff’s in the last case, against Ryan and Neville, was withdrawn, defendants paying costs. A meeting of the Kumara Branch of the Irish National Land League will be held in St. Patrick’s Schoolroom at 4 o’clock to-morrow afternoon.

The new Licensing Act of New South Wales, like that of New Zealand, must be a delightful law. We read in a Melbourne paper that Senior-sergeant Wood, stationed at Carcoar, committed suicide in a determined manner by blowing his brains out with a gun. Wood, who had been 25 yeare in the force, had lately been appointed inspector under the Publicans’ Act, and it is supposed that the trouble and worry consequent on carrying out his duties drove the unfortunate man to commit the fatal deed. We hope no policeman in Kumara will be tempted to follow his brother officer’s in Carcoar example, or else a heavy responsibility will rest on the New Zealand Parliament who passed the Act.

It is stated that Mr Halse, the New Plymouth solicitor, who committed suicide the other day, left liabilities to the extent of £22,000.

Oyster beds are being constructed at Evans’ Bay Wellington. Why could they not be cultivated with success on the West Coast. It could be done at the mouths of the Tcromakau, Grey, and Hokitika rivers; and would prove far more profitable than attempting to grow salmon or trout.

The Tobacco Growing Company recently formed in the Wairarapa is said to be a success. Some time since a writer in the Grey River Argus, who is an authority on such matters suggested that tobacco could be grown and cm-ed on the West Coast, and pointed out the modus operandi necessary for securing this result.

Two Mormon elders are travelling through the Rangitikei and Manawatu districts.

The Napier Daily Telegraph says Napier has got the reputation of being the dirtiest town in New Zealand.

On the day fixed for the “ local option” poll, not a single ratepayer put in an appearance at North-east Yalley, Dunedin.

George Adams, a road labourer of South Australia, committed suicide by hanging. He was to have been married next day. He preferred the halter to the altar. The Hawke’s Bay Herald says: Mr Bruford, master of the Norsewood School, has obtained a more lucrative appointment at Auckland in one of the city schools, and will proceed thither shortly. Mr Bruford was formerly master of the Oobden school. The Southland Times thus concludes its report of the public meeting about Mr Gladstone :—“ Some discussion followed on a suggestion for delay, Mr Dalrymple waxing warm, and contending that the address should be sent by telegram at once. On Mr Joyce, M.H.R., pointing out that the cost of so doing would probably be £IOO, and also that Mr Gladstone’s jubilee did not actually occur till December, the matter dropped.”

The contributions of New South Wales to the Dublin Mansion House fund amounted to the handsome sura of L 28,000. The Sydney Morning Herald, in an article on Sir Arthur Gordon’s conduct in sending for Sir George Grey, says :—“lt is very safe to predict that trouble and discontent will result from the action of Sir Arthur Gordon, a renewal of that trouble and discontent which have followed very persistently in that gentleman’s gubernatorial footsteps. His almost imperial sway in Fiji resulted in anything but a fusion of the races and a resolve to work together for a common good. His policy has had the effect of breeding an ill-advised presumption on the part of the blacks, and of increasing the old spirit of haughty contempt amongst the whites. He wa? hissed in the streets of Suva, and the planters held jubilee upon the day of his departure. In Zealand he has not beeri more successful. His abilities and attainments are valueless, because he lacks the faculty to accommodate himself to the proclivities rather than the needs of the people with whom he is officially brought in contact, and possibly he is unfortunate in New Zealand in following the ablest of Australasian Governors.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph says four-fifths of the colonial wine offered for sale in Sydney would never find a market in England.