The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 445, 28 February 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1878.

We are informed on the best authority that Sir George Grey has telegraphed to Wellington giving instructions that steps should at once be taken for the erection of a Hospital in Kumara. His Worship the Mayor also received the following telegram this afternoon.—" I have heard that plans and specifications for Hospital are now in preparation.—GL Grey.” Sir George Grey and party Tyere t® leave Hokitika for Southern ports, in the Government steamer Hinemoa, this morning.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, 'before Mr Price, R.M., several “drunks” were fined in the usual amounts:; .and the following. civil cases were disposed of, the verdicts being for the amounts named : Cuming and Co. v. White and others, £6 12s, goods sold; Brown v. M‘Gowan (Mr Perkins for plaintiff), £27 6s 3d, goods sold ; Jacobs v. Bonnetti, £3 7s 3d, goods sold ; Cullen v. Flaherty, £l9 11s 7d, goods sold. No business was transacted in the Warden’s Court this morning. The usual monthly meeting of the Ladies Benevolent Society was held on Tuesday. The visiting committee for February reported the relief of five cases, and one case refused on account of applicant being a resident in another district. The public idiouM 'distinctly understand that the Society was formed for the relief of the the infirm and the distressed of this district, and that no person will be attended to, unless a bona fide resident of the district, as the Society consider that -each district should attend to its own needy. Aid was withdrawn from one case after trial, the recipient being found unworthy of the Society’s support. The visiting committee for March are Mesdames Drummond, Barron, and Phillips, who will attend to any cases that come under their notice. Subsriptions handed in to the Treasurer amount to £l3 Is fid, for the month, and payments have been made to the amount of £5 10s fid.

The Rev. Father M'Caughey, who has been on a visit to Wellington, returned to-day.

Mr Cameron, photographer, Seddon street, succeeded in taking a capital view of the scene at the corner of Main and Seddon streets at the time when the Town Clerk was reading the address to Sir George Grey. Most of the figures come out with remarkable clearness, and as the copies of the picture are to be had at a reasonable price, doubtless many of those who witnessed the interesting ceremony will secure mementoes of it. The amount of revenue collected at the port of Greymouth for the week ending Saturday, 23rd February, was £BB3 19s lid, of which £126 16s was gold duty. During the week 740 tons of coal were shipped, 177 tons to foreign ports, and 563 tons coastwise.

Friday’s Christchurch Press says with reference to the sale of the Sun Newspaper.—Yesterday, Mr J. G. Hawkes offered for sale, by auction, the good-will, plant, and assets of the Sun newspaper, the property of the “Christchurch Sun Newspaper Company, Limited.” There

was a good attendance, the Fourth' Estate especially being well represented, and the lot was eventually knocked down to Mr Bryce Bain, who, it was understood, purchased on behalf of the Company, for £3110.”

The following is Mr Barton’s description of his treatment in the Wellington gaol as given to a reporter.—“ The room he said was just 10 feet each way. At night a sack of straw was brought in, and thrown into the comer ; a blanket with the initials W. G. in hard black letters at the top and bottom was thrown on that as the top of bed, and then another and thicker blanket but branded in the same way, and a counterpane formed the covering. When he first became an inmate of the cell he had neither fire nor candle, and his food was very poor. For breakfast he had a pannican of tea without milk, with half a small loaf, which formed his ration of bread for the day. For dinner there ‘ was fly-soup’ ”. Eight hundred and forty eight British and foreign vessels cleared from NeW Zealand ports during 1877. A letter-carrier of Sheffield, named Charles Sharpe, has bequeathed to religious and charitable purposes upwards of £IOSO, the result of Ixis savings. A private member of the New South Wales Parliament, Mr Shepherd, has introduced a short bill of about six lines, for the abolition of the export duty on gold. The Rev. George Gilfillan, of Dundee, who when in the pulpit professes to be a humble follower, of the meek and gentle Nazarene, speaks of the Czar as “the bloody and brutal Bear of the North” and adds “ John Foster wished for a rain of fire and brimstone upon the heads of the Russians on their march to Warsaw in 1831. I only go the length of wishing that the snow, which ovewhelmed Napoleon in 1812, may check the Russian progress in a campaign which seems to be quite as unjust and unprovoked as was his, and send the barbarous hordes back and 1 baffled to their own land.”

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. ]