The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 548, 29 June 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1878.

The performance given by the Dramatic Club iu aid of Mrs Gaffney will be repeated on Monday evening, as owing to the inclemency of the weather last night, several who had purchased tickets were unable to attend. A meeting of the Borough Council was held yesterday afternoon. A large amount of business was gone through, a full report of which will appear in Monday's issue. A sweep on the Melbourne Cup is announced by Mr Jones, of Greymouth, in another column. The New Zealand Gazette of the 15th inst., contains the appointment of Thomas Keiran, Esq., L.R.C.S. Eden., to be Public Vaccinator for the Kumara district. The Committee of the Church of England intend giving a concert, on the Bth proximo, in aid of the building funds. The programme willl appear in a few days. A correspondent at Dillman's Town writes as follows : —lt is currently reported that an enterprising speculator is about opening a dancing academy, with extraordinary attractions; and, to garnish the room, blooming roses and rosebuds are coming from the Melbourne conservatories, which, with the Dillman's Town Al instrumental band, will, it is expected, prove such an unprecedented attraction and pleasing pastime that even old age will be unable to resist its influences. The purveyors of beef and mutton are menacingly shaping at each other, and in a few days it is expected that hostilities will commence. The Hon. E. Lyttelton, who scored 113 (the largest number of runs yet made by any player in any of the Anglo-Australian matches) in the contest Australians v. Middlesex, averaged last year at cricket for Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he belonged, (58 runs. His total number of runs was 1100 ; most in a match, 228. Burns says, with gloomy grandeur, "There is a foggy atmosphere native to my soul in the hour of care, which makes the dreary objects seem larger than life." He who' suffiirs thus cannot be 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 rheumatism, 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 cui-es by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth [Advt.] °