The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 1992, 17 January 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1883.

The mail coach from Christchurch arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour.

We have received from Mr MacDermott, the postmaster, the Postal and Telegraph Guide for January 1883 (published quarterly). It contains the alterations made in the telegraphic regulations since the previous issue, besides an amount of other useful information. The time-table of the Orient Steam Company for the year is also given. Specially addressed correspondence, intended to be forwarded by the Orient line from Melbourne will be despatched from New Zealand by steamers timed to reach Melbourne immediately before the departure of the Orient vessels. His Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council has been pleased to appoint Joseph Giles, Esq., to be a Fellow of the University of New Zealand, vice the Hon. H. J. Miller, M.L.C. The same Gazette notifies that he has been pleased to accept the resignation by Dr. Joseph Giles, of his appointment as a Trustee of the Hokitika Savings Bank.

Francis Edmund Byrne has been appointed a Cadet in the Survey Department of New Zealand; the appointment dating from the Ist December, 1882.

The Hon. W. Rolleston is at present making a tour through the Otago goldfielcb. As Minister of Lands (the Reefton Times says) Mr Rolleston has been somewhat successful, but as Minister of Mines up to the present, he has not been a success. He is full of promises, but his promises are seldom if ever fulfilled. In the neighboring colonies of Victoria and New South Wales, no Ministry would be permitted to exist which did not include among its members one having a thorough and practical acquaintance with mining matters. In New Zealand, we have a Minister of Mines whose time is principally occupied in advising his colleague, Mr Bryce, on Native matters, and discussing new and novel ideas on land tenure.

A thunderstorm passed over Reefton last Friday morning. The Inangahua rose to its normal level, being about eighteen inches higher than during the months of November and December.

In referring to the candidature of his Lordship Bishop Moran as a candidate for the Peninsula vacancy, the Dunedin Morning Herald remarks : —" That a high dignitary of the Church should actively enter into politics is not we believe without precedent. In France a bishop holds a representative political office, while in Belgium several members of the Catholic clergy hold seats in the legislative bodies."

A decision of considerable importance was given by Mr Hardcastle in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Wellington, recently, when a boarder, who had not paid his account, sued a restaurant-keeper for damages for the illegal detention of his luggage. The plaintiff was nonsuited. The action was founded on the generally accepted supposition that boardinghouse aud restaurant keepers have not the same power as that possessed by licensed victuallers to detain the property of defaulting lodgers.

The interprovincial cricket match Otago v. Canterbury will be played at Christcliurch next month.

The recent Carnival in aid of the Otago Benevolent Institution realised £1833 5s Gd, and the Government subsidy will bring the net sum to £'3GGG lis. _ A lucky member of the " Foorce," stationed at New Plymouth, has received a cheque for £1350, being the price of his £1 ticket in Ada Mantua's Melbourne Cup Consultation. He was fortunate enough to draw The Assyrian.

After some consideration it has been decided to build a Theatre on the site of the Free thought Hall in Cathedral Square, Christchurch. The site is admirably adapted for the purpose, and free from all objectionable surroundings. It is understood that the promoters are prepared to sink a very large sum in the building and fittings, which will embody the latest developments of theatrical architecture and arrangement. The theatre is not to be an over large one, but about the same size as the Melbourne Bijou. Plans are being prepared by Mr F. W. Petre, of Dunedin, who has lately removed to Christchurch.

A publican and a grocer at Kaiapoi have had a somewhat bitter experience of the severity of the law in respect of the offence

of supplying drink to "boycotted" persons. The publican, for supplying a man against whom a prohibition order had been granted, was fined £lO, or a month's imprisonment, with endorsement of his license, while the grocer had to pay £5, or suffer fourteen days' incarceration. The Magistrate thought the Act might be amended by it being rendered necessary that prohibition orders should be advertised in the newspapers.

The yield of honey this year promises to be extremely large, and of exceptionally fine quality, says the Lyttelton Times, in marked contrast with the poor yields of the two preceding years. In the bays of the Peninsula, where many persons go in for bee farming on a small scale, the prospects are especially good. Considering the fact that in many parts of England the market value of honey is considerably in excess of that realised in New Zealand, it becomes a question with those who undertake bee farming whether a profitable export trade could not be established. The manufacture of brown paper has been discontinued at the Mataura Paper Mills for the past three weeks, in order to prepare the machinery and plant for the manufacture of printing paper. "The necessary alterations," says the lo«al paper, "are now well advanced towards completion. Water is being laid on from the adjoining creek by iron pipes, thoroughly clean water being a chief requisite in the process of manufacture. Our second or third issue after the present we hope to be printed upon the first fruits of the new industry, which is one of the utmost importance to the district and Colony at large, as, if successful, as we have little doubt, it will lead to an immense development of the paper trade, and with it the importance of Mataura as a manufacturing centre." Denominational schools are no longer supported by the State in New South Wales.

"Are you in favour of colonial industry ?" Mr David Buchanan was asked at theMudgee nomination. "I am, indeed," he answered; "I am a protectionist." "Didn't you say colonial wine was soapsuds T "Colonial wine," said David, "is very good when you can get nothing else. Mind you, lam not going to destroy my stomach for the sake of colonial industry. Make your colonial wine good and I'll drink it." The Wonderful Wertheim Sewing Machine may be had upon Time Payment, easiest terms for any part of the country, no matter where you live. With perfect ease and simplicity they will make very fine double seams or fells, will kilt, braid, make their own braid and stitch it on at the same time, bind, cord, ruffle gather, sew on ribbons and trimmings, tuck, hem to any width, bind scallops, and fold dress material with raw edges, bind on the bias, embroider curtains or antimacassars, stitch heaviest tweeds or moleskins, muslin or calico. Every kind of family or factory sewing. The Wertheim machines wind their own bobbins without guidance as level as reels of cotton. They are guaranteed for ten years, but will last a a lifetime. Easy to learn, light in running, strong, handsome, and durable. Catalogues, samples of work, and particulars free by post from James Renton, sole agent, Kumara and Hokitika. —[Advt.]