HOSPITAL COMMITTEE.

Kumara Times, Issue 280, 28 August 1877, Page 1

HOSPITAL COMMITTEE.

A meeting of the Hospital Ward Committee was held last night at the Brian Boru. Present: Messrs, Dungan (chairman), M‘Gregor, Keenan, Wylde, Riley, Ancher, Garguilo, Hassall, and Wright. After the minutes of the last two meetings had been read and confirmed, the following business was transacted : The chairman reported that Mr Wylde’s offer for plans and superintendence of building for new Hospital Ward, eight guineas, had been accepted. Mr Dungan handed in £l, Mr Gaiguilo £l9, Mr Ancher £2, for tickets sold. The tenders for building the Hospital Ward were then opened. There were nine, ranging from £95 to £134175. The lowest tender, that of Samuel Nelson, was accepted. A sub-committee was empowered to have a culvert and drain made if necessary. A letter of thanks from a patient named Hopkins was read snd received. The writer gave great praise to the wardsman. Correspondence with the Hokitika committee was read. Mr M'Gregor brought before the committee the case of a ticketrholder, named W. Robertson, who had gone to the Hokitika Hospital with a recommendation from the local committee. The secretary was instructed to ask an explanation of Mr Robertson’s treatment. Accounts were passed for payment to the amount of £l6 15s. It was resolved thatjin future, accounts should be passed only at the first meeting in each month. The secretary was instructed to prepare a statement, showing how the Kumara Committee stand with the Hospital Committee to the e.n I «f July, including ward expenst-s from *he time wheu the arrangements was in ide for becoming a sub-oom-mittee. The committee then adjourned till the 10th September.

THE LOITERER IN KTTMARA, “PESTINA LENTE.” Komars has its mayor and councillors, its volunteers, and its fire brigade. Fortunately, it has no water supply. 1 say fortunately, because I find that at Greymouth the local brigade plays strange tricks with the water. 1£ anyone wishes to know full particulars, I refer him to the writer of the following, which appeared in a recent issue of the Grey mouth Star : “Caution - to Larrikins playing Firemen, I hereby caution persons from repeating the trick served me on Monday last, when the first water from the standpipe was thrown on the roof of my house, filling my tanks with dirty water, my spouting with sand and gravel, and flooding my bedroom and parlor with muddy water. On a repetition of like treatment I will give the brigade some trouble to mend their hose, and will also serve them with a small paper commonly known as a summons.—C. S. M‘Dowall, Hospital-street.”, The Walroa Free Press complains that there is no barber at Walroa. Ross is no better oft. In this matter Kumara has no need to complain. It has even hot and cold baths, and perhaps some enterprising tonsor may establish Turkish baths some of these days. Even DUlmsn’s Town has its “hair-cutting saloon.” By-the.bye, Somkios, when he saw in what an exposed position the aforesaid saloon was perched, said it was well-chosen fur cutting ’air, Simkins is a cockney, and not particular as to the distribution of his aspirates. A particular friend of mine sends me the following report of a meeting which took place at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday last. He says the Editor refused to make use of it. lam surprised at the Editor’s want of taste. My readers shall have it:—The meeting was called for 8 o’clock. At half-past 8 there was very little show. So your “ recording angel” went away disgusted. Wrong, I think, on his part, for Mr Hanna asked all hands to have a drink. We wanted a meeting awful bad, so got Mr fl—-a on the stage, and says he, I’m an independent candidate, and can advance the interests of this borough if anybody can. It don’t pay me, but I like it (loud cheers), but I came to this meeting to act as chairman for Mr Quinn. Things looked uninteresting Just then, so we were having our drinks; when Mr Quinn made his appearance, amid loud cheering. He got on the stage, and said: Your interests are mine, boys; let’s have another whisky (cheers for the shouter). Mr Stewart objected to Mr Hanna being chairman, he being a candidate. Chairman; I merely took the chair to oblige my friend. You vote for Quinn. Mr H proposed, and Mr Danfield seconded, that Mr Quinn was a fit and proper person to head the poll as a borough councillor (carried). Mr D—!- got on the stage, and gave his opinion that everyting was all right—no—dat everyting is wrong. I don’t want to shpeak to ratepayers (groans). The bellman got up and spoke in favor of Mr Quinn, who could’nt come because he had to muffi his own business. The meeting then adjourned. The “mao who posted the letter” has interviewed the bank manager, and the police romance turns out to have been at least “ founded on fact.” My faith in my fellow-man is terribly shaken, whilst ray admiration for “ the force ’’-—don’t imagine, I mean that they are not fellowmen—is immensely increased, I do like to make a note of any'happy phrase I meet with In my reading. I have lately noted two, which I think worth recording. An ecclesiastical dignitary was tue other day made to say “ I tnav now, perhaps, be excused for making some special remarks bearing upon the nature of the building of which we are met here to erect the foundation.” The report does not say when the foundation had been laid which was then to be erected—A theatrical critic in a Dunedin paper says of the play called “ Our Dad,” “no modern play has excited such a favourable impression on our theatrical boards.” This writer la doubtless able to raise a dent. The “Man at the corner” has given our Knmara theatrical amateurs a gentle fillip for sanctioning the insertion of an advertisement “ concluding with a grand tableaux.” I" am requested to inform the “ Man at the corner,” that the amateurs did not sanction that final x. It was a freak of the printer, which by the bye I saw repeated in a late number of the Auckland Star where a “ winding up with a general tableaux” was spoken of. But, my “ corner ” friend, was the printer responsible for your using the word “ genii ” as you did in the very paragraph to which I have referred I I will quote as much as is necessary, to bring it to your memory. Y‘>u say “ Kumara is great on amateurs, at least some amateurs there imagine they are great. One of these genii «&c.,” If you consult your grammar or dictionary you will see that your solecism is as bad as you supposed that of the Kumara amateurs to be. Frank Tecman. “And above all, Nellie, my love,” were the parting words of a Adams street woman to. her daughter, as the hack to convey the newly-weddei pair to Fort Wayne depot drew up at the door; “and above all, Nellie if you should quarrel—for Reginald is but a man, and his life is full of thorns—remember that your first duty is to yourself as a lady and housekeeper. Order, neatness above all things. Never hit your husband with a rolling pin or a potatoe masher. You could never forgive yourself if the result of such a blow were to be the appearance of a hair at table in a dish of mashed potatoes, or a pie-crust when you hadcompany at tea. The poker will do quite 1 as well, as it is infinitely more lady-like, l Good bye, write every day, and dou’t forget your old mother. 800-hoo J”