The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 443, 26 February 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1878.

"Last night Kumara kept 'holiday. "In addition to the public banquet at the Town Hall there were several balls, all of which were largely patronised ; and the streets were crowded until long after midnight.

The Hon. Mr Fisher, PostmasterGeneral, has given instructions that a letter-carrier is to be appointed in Kumara. He has also, we believe, under consideration the advisableness of making arrangements for two mails daily both ways between Kumara and Greymouth and Hokitika respectively. The committee of the Hokitika Hospital have worked themselves into a state of excitement because the people of Kumara are agitating to have an institution of the same kind established here. Mr Walker, according to the West Coast Times, said that " not a single sixpence of profit was made out of the Kumara committee "—echo answers "Walker!" However as the Government has promised to assist us in establishing an hospital, the Hokitika Committee may rest assured that we shall not trouble them much longer.

The Press Agency is giving us some more brilliant examples of the manner in which its business is conducted. We have received a number of items from Auckland, the most wildly exciting of which is that " Meyers is prostrated with dysentery." For these we decline to find room in this paper : the West Coast Tunes does, under the heading of " The Press Agency's 'Uninteresting Auckland News." Previous to going up to Dillman's Town yesterday, Sir George Grey visited the State School, and expressed himself to Mr Phillips, the head teacher, as very much pleased with its appearance and the arrangements made for the accommodation and tuition of the children.

In explanation of remarks made by us •the other clay relative to the unnecessary detention of the incoming Greyraouth mails at the Tram Station, it is only right to say that the Tram Company is not to blame. The hitch occurs through defective arrangements between the Post Office and the Contractor for bringing the mails from the station to the Post Office. This ? lty u W^ oub,flesa in flltnre be performed by the rotter-carrier to be appointed.

A telegraph station is now open at Inglewood, in the county of Taranaki. Telegrams for the Australian Colonies, per steamer Alhambra (via Hokitika), will be received at Kumara telegraph station up till 5 p.m. to-morrow (Thursday) 27th instant.

Yesterday morning Sir George Grey telegrapHed to Sir John Coode, the eminent engineer, at present in Victoria, asking him if he would come to New Zealand to report upon harbor-works, jand in the course of the evening reoeived a reply in the affirmative, provided arrangements were at once entered into.

As will be seen by a District order in another column, members of the local Contingent of the First Westland Rifles will parade for monthly inspection this evening, at the Public Hall, with arms and accoutrements complete. The selling of the horses drawn in Bulstrode's Calcutta Sweep took place last night, at the Club Hotel, Mr D. Girdwood, of Greymouth, officiating as auctioneer. There was a fail- attendance of the sporting fraternity present. The following are the principal prices realised :—Ariel, £l4 10s; Hippocampus, £l3 10s; Templeton, £6 ss; Orange Lightning, £5 ; Titania, £5 ; Punga, £4 10s ; the remainder being bought at prices from £3 10s to 2s 6d. making the total amount of the sweep—first horse, £4l 3s 8d ; second horse, £l7 13s : third horse, £ll 15s 4d.

The pedestrian feat alluded to in our issue of Saturday last came off on the Main Road yesterday, when the boy Gleeson succeeded in walking the mile in the time named (eight minutes), with three-quarters of a minute to spare. A subscription of £5, collected by Mr King, was presented to him at its termination. A well-known blacksmith took advantage of the Premier's visit yesterday, while the procession was passing up Seddon street, to bring under his notice one of the chief requirements of the district, viz., the Teremakau bridge. This was drawn in an artistic manner on a large sheet of iron, and exhibited in front of his smithy, where no doubt it caught the eye of Sir G. Grey and party. To-day is being observed as a public holiday in Hokitika in honor of Sir George Grey's visit. 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; Jolin Griffen, Esq. J.P., of Dunedin; and Mr Alex. Mackintosh, of Mackintosh Bay, a very old colonist, and now 70 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.]