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Kumara Times, Issue 570, 25 July 1878, Page 2

There were no Police cases before the Court this morning ; but a civil case excited more than usual interest from the position of the parties engaged therin, and also that it elucidated the pecuniary tactics adopted at the late election. A full report is unavoidably held over until our next issue.

The friends of Mr Dixon, formerly of the Greenstone, will be glad to leam that, from letters received from him by an old friend of his in this town, the doctors are holding out great hopes of his sight being restored, at least in one eye. When he left here for Melbourne lately, he was entirely blind ; but after having undergone three operations at the Melbourne Infirmary, we are gratified to leam that his sight is again restored.

The election of Seymour Thorne George Esq", as one of the representatives for the Hokitika district appears in the Hew Zealand Gazette of the 18th inst. The licensed victuallers of this town will see by an article that appears in another column under the heading of “The Hew Licensing Bill and the Press Agency” that they have to thank that department for the scare produced by the telegrams that have lately appeared relative to the Hew Licensing Bill.

We notice by an advertisement that appears in another column that Mr Holmes has resigned the Collectorsliip of the Prospecting Association ; and that Mr G. Grams has been appointed in his stead. We trust Mr Grams will be as successful as his predecessor in collecting the weekly subscriptions. Two able seamen and a cook are required for the schooner Maggie Paterson, now lying at Hokitika, bound for Oamaru. Cyprus is now a centre of attraction. Limasol in Oprua (according to “Knight’s Encyclopaedia”) is near Araathus, is 40 miles S. W. from Larnica, and has a good harbour; the town, however, is a heap of ruins. “Keith Johnston’s Gazetteer” says that Larnica is the principal seat of commerce of Cyprus. It is the residence of European merchants and consuls, and has regular steam communication with Constantinople, Alexandra, Marseilles, and Liverpool. It does not possess 1 a harbour, but the bay affords excellent ancliorage. It has cisterns, and numerous vestiges of antiquity. Angles in the “ Australasian” writes : Called the other day, says the incorrigible Stockfish, on a lady who, amongst domestic treasures, displayed to me two canaries and a new sewing-machine. “Do -you know,” said she, “What I call my canaries 1” Pleading inability even to conjecture she continued, “Oh, I named them Wheeler and Wilson, because neither of them is a Singer.” (This is- not a disguised advertisement.) For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt.]