The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2090, 12 May 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1883.

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon at the usual hour. One of the clauses in the Land Revenue Bill has met with such opposition in the British House of Commons as to be considered tantamount to a defeat of the Government.—The Minister for Agriculture has introduced his bill for more effectually securing to tenant farmers in England and Scotland compensation for agricultural improvements. James Mullett, the accomplice of Laurence Hanlon in the attempted murder of Denis J. Field in November last, and who confessed to his complicity also as a conspirator in the Phoenix Park murders, has been found guilty and sentenced, as was Hanlon, to penal servitude for life. Neighbours' quarrels occupied the attention of two J.Ps. (Messrs Seddon and Campbell) at the R.M. Court this morning. Michael Fitzgerald charged Rose Taylor, both living near each other on the Christchurch road, near the Wainihinihi, with having, in a public thoroughfare and within hearing of persons passing, made use of abusive and insulting language towards Catherine Fitzgerald, his wife, and her children. The information was dismissed for lack of evidence that the language was actually made use of on a public road. —On" a second charge of threatening to burn complainant's house down, the accused was convicted and bound over to keep the peace towards Michael Fitzgerald and his family for the space of six months, and to,find two sureties in the sum of £lO each for her good behaviour ; in default of finding sureties, imprisonment in the Hokitika Gaol. Sureties were found. In administering words of advice and caution to both prosecutor and accused the Bench severely rebuked the complainant on account'; of questions he put to a child of the accused of tender years when giving evidence. At the Court this morning, Louis Ziegler was charged with allowing a chimney in his hotel to catch fire, and was mulcted in a fine of 10s, and 7s costs. The police having reported that cases of this kind were becoming frequent, the Bench notified that in future charges of this nature would be dealt with more severely than heretofore. Captain Edwin telegraphed the following weather forecast yesterday afternoon : "Expect bad weather between north and east and south-east; glass further fall, and after 12 hours sea heavy." A sad calamity has occurred at the Garden Gully mine, Sandhurst, where two men fell down a 170-feet shaft, and were, of course, killed. Mr Malcolm, of Brunnerton, preaches in the Presbyterian Church here to-morrow evening. Mr Malcolm officiated during a change of ministers at Greymouth some time ago, and was highly spoken of at the time as a preacher. There were 25 deaths on board the Otago, Immigrant ship, from Liverpool and Glasgow to Brisbane.

At the meeting of the Central Education Board on Thursday last, at Greymouth, the Argus says, "The new schedule of salaries and staffs was carefully revised, and adopted after some amendment. The revised schedule will improve pecuniarly the position of many of the teachers and remove many of the glaring inequalities that were so apparent before. Mr Petrie's proposition to increase the payments to masters of 88th clause schools so that no master should receive less than £l2O was carefully examined. The proposer urged that the increase would not materially interfere with the finances of the Board. The general opinion, however, was that £IOO would be a material advance upon what had been previously given to the smaller 88th clause schools, and the scale was fixed at that amount. The Board sat until 1 a.m., at which hour it adjourned until ten yesterday morning, when some committee work would be gone on with." The Taranaki Herald has been informed that the lucky winner who drew The Poet in the Auckland Autumn Handicap resides in New Plymouth, and has determined in consequence of his good fortune to erect a suspension bridge across the lake in the Recreation Grounds. Horses are being bought in the Taieri, Otago, for shipment to Queensland. It is reported that on a farm at Arrow, Otago, 140 bushels of oats to the acre were reaped this year. The straw was 5 feet 6 inches, and the ears a foot long. Miss Emelie Melville has accepted £775 in settlement of her claim against Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove, of the Melbourne Theatre Royal. Rees Jones, aged ninety-one years, a veteran holding medals for service at the battles of Vittoria, Salamanca, Badajoz, Ciudad Rodrigo, and Waterloo, recently died at Hindmarsh, S.A., having lived in the colonies for forty years. A disgraceful exhibition of stonewalling took place recently in the New South Wales Assembly over the Licensing bill. It was proposed to make a journey of five miles necessary to constitute a bona fide traveller, but the motion was rejected, and a proposition to make the distance 500 miles was agreed to. An equally absurd motion to prohibt the serving of liquor in clubs on Sundays was also carried, apparently with the object of making the bill unworkable. The last notice on the order-paper, to allow the establishment of refreshment-rooms on the railways at distances of not less than 50 miles, aroused a most intemperate opposition from the Temperance party, who immediately commenced a system of stonewalling, which was kept -up until 10.30 a.m. next day. The opposition gave way, and the clause allowing liquor to be sold in the I'efresh-ment-rooms on the railways was carried, the distance between the station where liquor may be served being fixed at 60 miles. This result was received with much cheering.