The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1878.
Messrs F. A. Learmonth and Co., will sell to-morrow morning, the stock, furniture and eifocts ofathe Albion H«>lel, at 11 o'clock. ■ ;; " ! ' The steamer Waipara, on returning from the Alhambra, at 11 o'clock on Thursday night, got ashore on the point of the South Spit. Yesterday all available means were taken to launch her at high tide, but without success. A great deal of signalling (the Times reports) took place' between.the Alhambra and the station, re-, suiting in the big boat determining to wait till this morning, as the tender boat was expected to get free on last night's tide, when she would take the outward passengers and freight, and ease the big boat of the remainder of her inward cargo, when the ocean steamer would resume her voyage. We are pleased to see that the steamer Waipara has got safely alongside the wharf. During a faction fight at Mohobb'en,' in the Ballingarry district, County Tipperary, two men -were satbbed ; to death. Their': names < Avere Andrew.... Pox <: and. Thomas O'Brien. The outrage arose out of a quarrel at a dance between the old local factions of "the Caravats, v and "the Sharavats." Several persons have been arrested upon a chagre of being mixed up in the'affair. A writer in Vanity Fair says :—I hear from Bombay under date Ist May :—"The' excitement of the embarkation of the first expedition is very great here, and the. troops are mad to go. Up north the Sikh 3 are clamouring to be allowed to go, 1 in fact if every man in the native armyhad his way we should be left without troops at all. One man of the 31st, had taken furlough and had marched 280 miles within one .day's march of his hqme, when he heard tliat his'" regiment was ordered-' away on active,, service.,. Without going home he turned and caught His regiment 0n ,1y., j. ust in r time, for they were inthe railway station oh the point of starting^ '■-■ For miraculous sures. by. the use of Eucalypti Extract, j-_<jad fourth page.— [Advt.l Scipio' said that " a valiant arid brave . soldier seeks rather'to preserve one citizen, 'than td destroy a thousand Gollah on..a similar, principle,. destroys the thousand pains'of rheumatism, sciaticia, and lumbago, "Great IndianCures,.", ther .wonder of..the nineteenth century. ' Testimonials' may be seen in another. c6lamnj'j ; and ; medicines, may be procured ;at,aU .Chemists, [Advt. ]• ; ..
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Kumara Times, Issue 589, 16 August 1878, Page 2
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