The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2387, 23 April 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1884.

At the Local School Committee meeting on Monday evening last, it will be seen that it was resolved, during the winter months or until Education matters are put on a proper footing, to again adopt the old regulations, and charge the pupils for requisites. At a meeting of the Committee of the Benevolent Society last evening, subscriptions to the amount of £lB, which have been collected by Messrs Ames, Harris, Palmer, and Ward in aid of the society, were handed in to the Treasurer ; and a vote of thanks was accorded to those gentlemen for their kind services in canvassing for the same. To-day being St. George's Day, the local banks wvre notified to be closed. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before T. Connell and J. O'Hagan, Esqs., J.Ps., Rosanna Taylor was charged on the information of Michael Fitzgerald, with having assaulted and beaten his child Mary Fitzgerald, aged about nine years, by striking her on the hack with a stone and catching her by the hiiir nf Ikh' hoad, and throwing her down mill ki.-lar.g h■•;■.-- -Evidence was taken, and accused was convicted and fined 10s,

and Court costs 17s; or in default one week's imprisonment.—Wm. Somerville, for allowing a horse, his property, to be at large within the borough of Kumara, was fined ss, and Court costs 7s. The Christchurch coach arrived early this afternoon. At a meeting of the Stewards of the Westland Racing Club at Hokitika on Monday evening, the protest against Mustard by the owner of Levant was sustained. The totalisator money is being paid to ticket-holders of Levant at the Cafe* de Paris Hotel. Mr Robert B. Jones, engineer, gunsmith, and machinist, from Hokitika, notifies that having had many years' experience with the largest firms in the colony, he will undertake the preparation of estimates and specifications for batteries, hydraulic mining, sawmill, and other machinery. He may be applied to at Rugg's Hotel, Kumara, for a week, after which his address will be at Mr J. Renton's, Tancred street, Hokitika. An important judgment was delivered in the Supreme Court, Wellington, on the 16th inst., by Judge Richmond in the case of Wilberforce v. the Try-again Goldmining Company. This was an appeal upon a case stated by the Resident Magistrate at Wellington, the question being whether forfeiture of shares under section 54 of "The Mining Companies Act, 1872," is absolute on non-payment of a call within 21 days after its due date, and in default of the Company taking effectual proceedings for its recovery within the period limited by the Act. His Honor decided that though the Company loses its right of action for a particular call by not suing within the time limited, yet it is optional with the Company whether the shares are thereby forfeited, and that the Company can therefore recover subsequent calls. The appeal was dismissed. The daily milk supply of Glasgow reaches 150,000 gallons. The first organ in the Free Church of Scotland was recently erected and opened in the church at Strathblane. At Maccabe's first appearance in London after- his successful tour round the world an audience of nearly 1800 people filled the Town Hall, Shoreditch, which was augmented by a strong muster of the Junidr Garrick, who went in a private omnibus from Adelphi terrace to welcome their fellow clubman back again.