Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 521, 29 May 1878, Page 2

Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1878.

The nomination of candidates for the election of a member to represent tile Arahura Ridiug in the Westland County Council was to take place at Stifford Town to-day at noon, and Mr Edward Blake has been elected. The Hokitika Evening Star, writing on the subject, says of the Council:—" There is a chairman who does literally nothing, is repeatedly absent on his own business when he should be present in the Council, and yet is not ashamed to take £3OO a year from County funds for such very indifferent discharge of duties. There is a clerk chiefly remarkable for over-weening vanity and matchless effrontery, who has time to dovote himself to other pursuits of a most varied nature, and draws a like sum ; there is an engineer costing nearly £6OO a year ; overseers without end at heavy cost; there is a constant drain for travelling ex-

penses of members, and in short, the expense of administering the County of Westland's affairs is at least double that of any other County in the colony in proportion to income." A meeting of the Kumara Hospital Committee was held last night in the Council Chambers : Present Messrs Croumbio-Brown (chair), Pollock, Rogers, Griffiths, Birch, Everett, Garguillo, Todd, Anchor, King, and Scott. The only business of importance was the election of wardsman, which was conducted by ballot, and out of eleven applicants the choice fell upon Mr T. Murtagh, whose testimonials are of the highest class. Mr Murtagh will take charge of the ward on Monday morning. Subscriptions to the amount of £4 18s 6d were handed in, and the meeting was adjourned to 11th June. There will be a regular field-day at the R.M. Court to-morrow. Besides a large number of civil cases, several police prosecutions, and suits for the payment of Business licences will be heard. It is announced by advertisement appearing in another column that the regular meetings of the members of the Court Pride of Kumara, No. 6272, A.0.F., will commence at the Public Hall to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock. Yesterday evening Detective Browne received a telegram ordering his removal to Hokitika, and left by the coach this morning. Mr Browne, who is well known as one of the most active officers in the Force, was sent to Kumara at a time when tilings were in a very unsettled state, and the presence of a skilled detective a matter of some importance. He has at all times proved himself equal to the occasion, whatever it might be, and while discharging his duties in an unobtrusive manner he has done so none the less efficiently. Mr R. M. Hogg, late agent of the Bank of New South Wales, at Kumara, was released from custody yesterday, on the warrant of the Government. The petitiou I recently forwarded on his behalf was, the ' West Coast Times says, the means of shortening his sentence by about six : weeks. ! Mr Walter Bishop, formerly connected ' with the commercial department of the ', KumakaTimes, was one of the s.ifferers ■ by tlie Moeraki coach accident." He tele- ! graphed to the Morning Herald that he | had "an indistinct recollection of one of the traces becoming unhitched, and of the | horses bolting. Being seated on the top j of the coach, ho saw danger and threw himself off. He remembered nothing till : he recovered consciousness in the railway ; carriage. He sustained a sprained ankle j and a few trifling cuts and bruises about I the body." ! The manufacture of baskets has been added to the local industries of Greymouth. A well-informed contemporary believes that the Government contemplate the introduction of a system of "deferred" telegrams at cheap rates. The tariff will probably be at the rate of 10 words for 6d, or just half the ordinary charge. These messages will be sent by telegram to the postal town of the district to which they are directed, and they will then be stamped'and handed over to the post-'; I office, for distribution by the letter carrier, at the next delivery. On each message there will be- an extra charge of Id for postage. The Wellington Post understands that after the close of the present financial year the Government propose to charge the whole cost of administration upon the ordinary revenue of the colony. The Post denies the statement made I by the New Zealand Times to the effect that it is the intention of the Government to discharge over 100 clerks now employed in Wellington. The West Coast Times says that communications approving of the County Conference continue to be received by the County Chairman, and co-operation has j been general except on the part of the Grey County. | Mr John B. Harmon, Deputy Grand | Sire of the Grand Lodge of United States j Independent Order of Oddfellows, at present on a mission to New Zealand, at a banquet given him at Wellington, afforded some interesting statistics concerning Oddfellowship in the United States. j He said that fifty years ago, five EnglishI men, in a little room at Baltimore, transj planted Oddfellowship to the United i States, and now there were over half a million. The Grand Lodge he represented, for five or six years after its institution in 1824, only numbered six or seven men, and its income was from 75 to 100 dollars a year. Now, the income was 6,000,000 dollars, and about 3,000,000 i dollars were distributed for sickness and j distress annually. '■ An Austrian military paper, the ; Vedette, states that some bread of the I same kind as that issued to the Russian troops in Bulgaria was recently obtained ; and examined by the Military Intend- ! ance in Vienna. A careful analysis showed that the bread contained 19 per cent of sawdust and 14 per cent, of sand. Bums _ says, with gloomy grandeur, "There is a foggy atmosphere native to ; my soul in the hour of care, which makes the dreary objects seem largor than life." He who suffers thus cannot bo relieved by any appliances save those that touch the heart—the homelier the more sanative—and none so sure as a wife's affection. True, O poet, but he who suffers the racking pains of rhe.unatism, sciatica, or lumbago, should use, combined with your prescription, " Ghollah's Great Indian Cures," the wonder of the nineteenth century. Testimonials may be seen in another column, and Medicines may be procured at all Chemists.—[Advt.] For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt. J