The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 560, 13 July 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1878.

There is at last a probability of the new Hospital being proceeded with, as the following telegram has been received by the Secretary of that institution, from G. S. Cooper, Esq., Under-Secretary:— “Plans and specifications returned by mail. Please call for tenders ; money ready when wanted for progress payments. See letter of this date.” We have no doubt that the Committee will on this authority call for tenders at once.

Mr Barff is in receipt of a telegram from the Colonial Secretary to the effect that His Excellency the Governor has been placed to allow the widow of T. K. Christian, Bailiff of the Courts, at Hokitika, a gratuity of £163. The Rev. G. Morice will preach at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening only. A meeting of the Kumara German Society, will be held at the Crown Hotel, to-morrow (Sunday), at 3 o’clock. The Crown Lands Ranger will attend at his temporary office, at the Empire Hotel, on Thursday next, for the purpose of issuing timber licenses. Sergent Emraerson is gazetted Gaoler of the Kumara Gaol, vice Constable Loftus, transferred.

The West Coast Times says amongst the items set forth in the schedule of the Arahura Road Board (amounting in all to £I6OO 8s 9d) the following occur:—Bryne (secretary), £62 10s ; do, £25 ; do, £ll 18s ; do, £27 10s ; £l4 5s ; do (salary), £125 ; decompensation), £175; do, £2O 16s 8d ; total, £462 19s§8d. The Arahura Road Board are now endevouring to collect a rate and it was stated in the Council yesterday that every penny collected would be lodged in soma bank to pay the secretary. If the ratepayers were to follow the advice of the County Council tendered to them- they would not pay a sixpence of this rate under the circumstances.

An Auckland telegram, says : Mr Davis, tlie representative y>f the Union Pacino Railroad, who camoto the Colonies a few months ago .with the,object of ascertaining the requirements of the through

passenger trade and of making improvements in the travelling facilities by the overland route, is now in Auckland after an extended visit to the Australian Colonies. Since Mr Davis has been down the through rate from Auckland to London via mail steamer and the Central Pacific and Union railroad has been reduced from £76 10s to £7O. He goes south next week; Excellent progress has again been made in the tournament for the choice of three representatives to play, with Messrs Cross, Palmer, and Janion, in the return match with Greymouth. The following are the scores recorded up to last night:—

A special telegram to the Wellington Post under date July 5, says “ The Australian cricketers have now played eight matches, and their averages which have been made up for the first six, show the five highest batting averages to be Midwinter 29 per innings, Bailey 26, Garret 20, O. Bannerman 19, Spoorth 18. As to the bowling, the three best averages are Garret a wicket for every three runs, Spooforth a wicket for every four runs, Boyle a wicket for every five runs.*’ For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt.J

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 larger than life.” He who suffers 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, 0 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 seen in another column, and Medicines may be procured at all Chemists; — [Advt. ]

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