The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2779, 18 August 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1885.

Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs : "The no-confidence business has turned out a regular fiasco. The Opposition at the last moment quarrelled amongst themselves as to who should lead. Grey would not follow, and Atkinson and Montgomery declined to lead the attack. Capt. Russell was then asked, but refused, seeing his motion would have estranged the !\.l aovi votes. The galleries were packed, and the greatest excitement prevailed, and much dissatisfaction .was experienced when the Opposition refused to take up the challenge of Government. Whatever may be the other failings of the Ministry, it cannot be said they lack courage when a fight is threatened." The parliamentary correspondent of the Argus reports that " The Opposition were to tabic their no-confidence vote

': ,= i. jiiglit m consequence of unforeseen ...rcumstances, it having been definitely

decided to take vote on the question and who shall bell the cat. Major Atkinson was out of the question ; the House did not like the idea of his gaining the ascendency once more. Mr Montgomery, who was appealed to, was not altogether averse to a no-confidence motion being made, but was strongly disinclined to take the initiative. Mr Ormond refused, and the Opposition found itself in a quandary. Accordingly, the motion was not tabled. The matter, however, has not dropped, and it will probably be resurrected this week. One lobby rumour is that as soon as the no-confidence motion is dealt with, if the Government are successful, Vogel will resign, and as a salve to his wounded feelings he will receive, say six thousand on account of his petition. I give you this for what it is worth, which is not much. The House met at 7.30 to-night for the transaction of Government business. In answer to a question, the Public Works Minister said he could not say when his statement would be delivered. The House then went into Committee of Supply on the Estimates."

A late cablegram from Sydney informs us that the steamers Massilia and Lusitania, which have been doing duty as armed cruisers, left yesterday for England, in accordance with Admiral Tryon's instructions, to report themselves to the Admiralty. The annual meeting of subscribers and ticket-holders to the Hospital will be held at the Town Hall this evening, at 8 o'clock. The Committee are requested to meet at 7 p.m. Commander Edwin wired at 1.46 p.m. to-day—-" Bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west; glass fall again and wind backing within 12 hours."

George Grant who twice last week was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court here, convicted of drunkenness, and eventually imprisoned in Hokitika Gaol for a week, will, on emerging from that institution, be again arrested, this time on a charge of stealing jewellery from the residence of Elizabeth Campbell, of Seddon street. On being apprised of the theft, Sergeant Russell immediately set to work to discover what had become of the stolen articles—which consisted of two pairs of gold earrings, a plated gold brooch, and a gold cameo brooch, and in two hours succeeded in recovering the stolen property, which had been disposed of in various parts of the town. Tenders are required by the Long Tunnel Company for extensive additions to their dam at Cemetery Hill. Specifications can be seen as notified in the advertisement. Tenders must be addressed to the legal manager, Mr D. Hannan, before 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 26th inst. The Dillman's Town quadrille assembly will be held at the Empire Rooms tomorrow evening, at eight o'clock.

iEgles writes in the Australasian : One of the new colonial bishops is taller than the late Bishop Barker (for whose legs they cut a hole into the next cabin when he first came out in the good ship Oliver Lang from Liverpool). The new bishop might, with appropriateness, be called a High Priest, and his chaplain is a decidedly Low Churchman, for he measures sft. 3in. against his lordships 6ft. 9in. They came in from the back blocks to a small township, and the bishop's lower integuments being quite worn out through his active exertions in the.saddle, it was necessary to procure a new pair. There was the store, of course, with medium-sized trousers, and of these two pairs were purchased and then came the difficulty—there was no tailor to make alterations. So, after some difficulty, under his lordship's instruction and supervision, an adjustment was made—nine inches were cut from the legs of one pair of the trousers, and stitched on to the other, and though scarcely presentable in Mayfair, two honest men were fitted.

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Auckland Herald says :—" Where this insect prevails, not only are fruit trees to be found completely covered with myriads of these creatures, and such trees soou die, but even the hawthorn hedges are greatly injured and deformed by it. The worst of it is that the scale gets ou the fruit, in the case of the apple, giving it a most uninviting oppearance. This scale multiplies with wondeiful rapidity, and is very difficult to remove. I look upon it aB a far more alarming enemy to our orchards than the codlin moth, over which we made such a posthumous outcry lately."