The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 834, 3 June 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1879.

The usual meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held at the Secretary’s office this evening. In reply to a telegram forwarded to the government by the chairman of the Arahura Road Board relative to the construction of a main tail-race in this goldfield, the Premier states that the matter has been referred to one of the members for the district, Seymour Thorne George> Esq, M.H,R,, inquires to make in regard thereto.

The Grey River Argus is given to understand that immediately on the assembling of Parliament, the Ministry will be met with a direct vote of want of confidence on the address. Should the Ministry be defeated, a new Government will be formed, including Mr Whitaker and the Hon. John Hall.

There is a foundry in Victoria where are made a large number of instruments called “ Taylor’s Rabbit Exterminator.” In one case in four hours it killed 73 rabbits. The price of the preparation is only one shilling per day when in use, and the price of the instrument isfrom £l2 to £l6. The instrument is portable, and can be carried on horseback.

It is intended to build another grand theatre in London, to be called “ The Alcazar.” A company has been formed with a capital of £IOO,OOO in £lO shares and it has secured the freehold ground on the north side of Leicester square, where Saville House stood. The area of ground that the theatre will cover will be nearly 10,000 ft

.The celebration of the centenary of Robert Raikes, who is generally regarded as the founder of Sunday schools, will take place in 1880. It is proposed to raise a sum of £50,000 as a Sunday School Centenary Fund, to be devoted towards the permanent benefit of Sunday schools. An exchange says : You can’t advertise enough in a week to last a whole year, any moi e than you can eat enough in seven days to last 3(J5 ; and yet some socalled business men and hotel and boarding-house keepers seem to think so.

“Supposing that you got private intelligence that to-morrow would be the day of judgment,” asked a minister of the gospel of the proprietor of one of our live papers, whom ho was trying to convert, “ what would you do r And the news-gatherer paused for a moment, looked up thoughtfully at the ceiling, and said ; “You’ve got mo there. I suppose if I used the entire staft, and got all the extras in the city, that we couldn’t interview half the people buried in the cemetery as they rose from their graves ; and allowing that we

could, a sixteen-page paper with double supplement, would not contain half the matter, even if we could set it up, but I’d run extras all next day until I got it all in somehow.” “ No, *’ he continued, “it would be a pretty tough riffle, I acknowledge, but I’d make it, you bet 1” Mr W. Will way 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 announces that she is prepared to clean and dye hats, feathers, gloves, Ac., in the best style. N.B.—Gentlemen’s clothes cleaned, dyed, pressed, and repaired on the premises.—Advt.