The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 814, 10 May 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1879.

The Commissioners appointed by the Government—the Hon. J. A. Bonar, and Messrs Price and Giles, Wardens—to inquire and report on the case of Armstrong and party v. the Government, sat at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, and, after taking some evidence, the Commissioners adjourned to view the ground on which the action in question is taken. At the time of our going to press the inquiry was not concluded, but a resume* of the whole case will appear in our next issue.

The entire stock-in-trade of Messrs Brown and Holder, of Greymouth, will be submitted by public auction by Messrs Girdwood, Lahman, and Co., on Wednesday next, at Nancarrow and Co.'s stores, where it has been removed for convenience of sale. The stock, comprising groceries, oilmen's stores, earthenware, and a large assortment of useful articles, will be offered wholesale in parcels to suit the trade, and the retail portion will be sold in lots to suit the public.

We have received from the Resident Secretary of the Australian Mutual Society a copy of a most comprehensive and detailed Review of the "Progressive Policy" of the Society together with a " Comparative Abstract of the Expenses of English, American, and Australian Life Assurance Institutions'" complied by M. A. Black, Esq., F.1.A., the Society's Actuary. Copies of the work can be obtained of the local agents and of Mr George Robertson, bookseller, Melbourne, and: Sydney. From the statement of receipts arid expenditure of the Stevenson Relief Fund, which appears in another column, it will be seen that owing to the generosity of the inhabitants of the district generally, the committee have been enabled to hand over to Mrs Stevenson the handsome sum of £166. We are requested to state in connection therewith that any subscrip r tions promised, and not paid, will be gladly accepted by either the Treasurer or Secretary, Messrs Kirkpatrick or Palmer, of Stafford Town.

A man was picked up by the police on the night of April 21 in Lonsdale street, Melbourne, in an apparently lifeless condition. Some by-standers stated he had fallen down in a fit. He was placed in a cab, and taken to the Melbourne Hospital where it was ascertained he was dead. It is believed that the name of the deceased is Benjamin Southworth, and arecent arrival from New Zealand. On his clothing being searched, a bank draft for £2lO, issued by a New Zealand Bank, was found upon him; also, £9 in inotes a quantity of gold dust and nuggets, and passage ticket for England, by the Chimborazo, taken out in the name of Benjamin Southworth.

Mr W. Willway having sold his plans and interest in the Dyeing Business to Mr R. Upjohn (who has become practically acquainted with the trade), begs to solicit the kind patronage hitherto afforded him to his successor.—Mrs Upjohn an- ; nounces that she is prepared to clean and dye hats, feathers, gloves, &c, in the best style. N.B.— Gentlemen's clothes cleaned, dyed, pressed, and repaired on the premises.—Advt.