The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 155, 3 April 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1877.

A man named Patrick Skahan met with j an accident, yesterday morning, while i working in a face, at the Old Junction, I on. the north side of the Teremakau. A large mass of earth fell upon him, and broke bis thigh. He was removed, on a stretcher, to the Hokitika Hospital. Messrs M'Carthy and Son have now completed their new premises in Firststreet, and will be henceforth able to supply their customers with colonial beer of which Kumara will not be ashamed. The firm, besides having secured the approbation of the general public for their brew, can boast of a certificate from the local medical practitioners, recommending their beer as equal to anything imported. By an advertisement, in another column, it will be seen that the drawing for the Hokitika Hospital Art Union has been postponed for a few days, as the returns have not, as yet, been sent in from the country. Dr Fetherstonhaugh 'has been appointed Public Vaccinator at Kumara At eight o'clock this evening the public meeting of those interested in the formation of a literary institute will take place at the Club Hotel Members of the Kumara contingent of the First Westland Rifles are to hold a meeting this evening at 8 o'clock, at the Buck's Head Hotel. Musicians, whojare willing to join the band, are invited to attend the meeting -• v .M* Travers the newly elected member '. fcr Wellington made his profession of faith, at a meeting of the constituents in the following comprehensive terms. '"■ At hia last meeting an elector had asked him a question as to the faith he professed. He had never in all his political experience hea-d such a question put to a candidate before. But he believed that it had been asked on this occasion with the view of relieving him from what somebody had called an " imputation" of some kind. He had made inquiries about that question, and his friends had told him that it would be better for him to give a clear and distinct answer to it. He would do so now, and would observe at the same time that "any man who was ashamed to look - his fellow men in the face when he was stating to what religion he belonged was not worthy the name of man. The days of persecution were over, and he had no objection to state the religion he belonged' to. He waß a member of the Church of England,' and he always had been. His father was before him ; hiswife and children belonged to the same church ; his mother too ; her father was a clergyman of the Church of England, who occupied two livings, from which he received a considerable amount of tithes. He himself was not a Catholic, and if he were he would admit it at once." The Warden has declared the new rush atEcbanga, South Australia, to be a payable one, and the ground has been proclaimed, but it is said to be of limited extent.

A speculator took a quantity of butter from Melbourne to Sydney, lately. On arriving at Sydney he found that it would not pay him-to sell there, so at once took the butter back to Melbourne. He had to pay 2d per lb duty on landing it at Melbourne, where it had originally been made. The proprietor of an oyster saloon in Sydney avenged himself for the nonrapent of a\-bjll, ;b y ..tarring and face of^fe^Pfc*.