The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 563, 17 July 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1878.

It will be seen by reference to our advertisement columns that a general meeting of subscribers to the Kumara LiteraryInstitute will be held to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock, at the rooms of the society. We trust to see a good muster present as the business to be transacted is no less than the election of a new Committee for the ensuing twelve months. Inasmuch as the entire success of the reading-room and its adjuncts depends on electing a good working Committee, we hope all persons interested in furthering so laudable an ob* ject will use their best endeavors to secure the welfare of the society. It should be borne in mind that the retiring Committee have labored assiduously to'render the undertaking a success, and have spared no pains to do so. We therefore throw out the hint to all interested in the welfare of the Institute, that their attendance and influence to-morrow evening may be a turning point of importance in the existance of the only means of intellectual recreation at present extant in Kumara. At a meeting held hist, eveningof the vestry Trinity Church (Church of England, Kumara), the balance sheet of the late concert, given during the recent visit of the Ven. Archdeacon Harper, was presented showing the gross receipts to have been £59 Iss 6d, and t!ie expenses £8 Bs. The accounts in connection therewith were passed for payment. An advertisement appears in another column thanking those who so kindly assisted in making the conoert so complete a success. At the public meeting last evening one of the speakers, as a guarantee of his trustworthiness as collector of the subscriptions, offered to deposit a ten pound note with the chairman, aiid receiving no reply to his repeated interrogations as to " Will you take it 1 " a long pause ensued, j broken only at last by a far-distant voice exclaiming, in a decidedly collecting accent, •Pass it down ; I'll take it, on account." | We need only add that note did not travel in the direction indicated. i There was a good muster of the VobmI teers at the Public Hall last evening, who, (under Sergeant Falvey, had an hour's smart company drill. We learn that a grand concert in aid of St. Patrick's Schodl is likely to take place during the ensuing month, at the Theatre Royal. As we understand the Hokitika ~ vocalists have kindly volunteered their

services in connection with our local talent, there is but little doubt of the concert proving a grand success. The Countess Delphine Potocka. distinguished for her wit and for her musical talent, has just died in Paris. It was she who watched Chopin when he was dying, and who sang hymns to him when he was breathing his last. For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt.J 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 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 be seen in another column, and Medicines may be procured at all Chemists.—[Advx.]