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Kumara Times, Issue 411, 19 January 1878, Page 2

The coach from Christchurch, due. last Wednesday at Hokitika, arrived at 11.30 p. m. yesterday. His Honor Judge Weston has been delayed by floods on his journey between Greymouth and Reefton. The. District Court there will probably not open until Monday. Mr Price, R.M., pending the appointment of a successor to Mr Fitzgerald, will hear the outstanding cases under extended jurisdiction at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Hokitika. Divine-service will be held to-morrow evening, at the Theatre Royal, by the Rev. H. J. G, Gilbert, and in the new Presbyterian Church, Third street, by Mr J, Fitall. Attention is called to two advertisements of important sales of property by auction, by Messrs F. A. Learmonth and Co, appearing in another column. The Totara Road Board has merged in the Westland County Council. On Friday evening, Ist prpx., an amateur dramatic entertainment is to be given in the Theatre Royal, in aid of the funds of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, which promises to be as enjoyable as any we have yet had in Kumara. The programme consists of a domestic drama, entitled “The Toodles ; or, the Parmer’s Story,” and the screaming farce “A Ticket of Leave,” the programme concluding with a grand tableau, in which the whole of the Brigade will appear. Ho institution in Kumara is more deserving of support than the Fire Brigade ; and, quite apart from the attractiveness of the programme,

we are certain that the desire to support and encourage the brigade will ensure a bumphr house. Messrs Patten and Mueller, members of the Central Board of Education, arrived in Kuinara from Hokitika this morning, and took over the new State School from the contractors, Messrs Young Bros., of Greymouth. A monk of the Benedictine monastery at Raigern, between the Briinn and Vienna, has recently completed a mechamcal| curiosity in the shape of a selfmoving terrestrial globe, i"4 metres in diameter. A combination of wheels, gives it a motion similar to that of the earth, and when once set going it will revolve for three weeks. At the north pole of the axis are dial-plates on which the days, months, <fcc., are indicated, and over ; these is a smaller globe, by means of which the motion of our planet round the sun is exhibited. The larger globe sets the smaller one in motion by the agency of 12 wheels. The construction of the mechanism took more than ten years’ patient application, and was only completed after numerous experiments. As regards geographical details, the map oh the globe is carefully drawn, and shows all the latest discoveries. The steamer routes, railway and telegraph lines, the heights of mountains, and the depths; of the ocean are all distinctly shown. . The latest new rush on record is by ail accounts likely to be of great magnitude ; the exact locality is neither New Guinea, nor the western bank of the Teremakau, but at Morgan and Love’s London Butchery, Seddon street, where nothing but the top quality of the season is kept; and connoisseurs can obtain everything in the small goods line to suit the most faatidous palate, London faggots, Meltton Mowbray pork pies, and Epping sausages every Saturday, at Morgan and Love’s London Butchery, Seddon street.— [Advt.] The severe weather that has lately occurred will be the forerunner of indisposition—such as rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, and muscular shifting pains. “Ghollah’s Great Indian Cures” have, been pronounced by numbers of well-known Colonists to be the wonder of the Nineteenth Century, through the extraordinary cures that have been effected in their own cases by these Indian medicines ; amongst these may be mentioned M. B. Hart, Esq. ex-Mayor of Christchurch; Melville Walker, Esq., J.P., of Lyttelton ; John Griffen, Esq. J.P., of Dunedin ; and Mr Alex. Mackintosh, of Mackintosh Bay, a very old colonist, and now 76 years of age, who had been suffering from rheumatism for fourteen years, but is now quite cured. Testimonials may be seen and Medicines procured at all Medicine Vendors.— [Advt.]