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Kumara Times, Issue 1415, 14 April 1881, Page 2

To-morrow, being Good Friday, there will bo no publication of the Kumara Times. The day is observed as a public holiday throughout the British dominions.

All miners’ rights and privileges are, by notice of the Warden, protected from tomorrow till Tuesdays both days inclusive. The Banks (as we announced yesterday), after to-night, close till next Tuesday morning. Good Friday being one of the few holidays allowed by the regulations to the Postal and Telegraphic Departments, the Kumara Post Office will be closed tomorrow, and all mails usually despatched on Fridays will be made up this evening at 7 o’clock. Sunday hours will-* be observed at the Telegraph Office on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Service will be conducted in Holy Trinity Church to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock. The annual meeting of the Benevolent Society will be held at the Town Hall on Easter Monday evening, at 8 o’clock. The Original Georgia Minstrels announce a grand entertainment at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, when local talent will be introduced. Gilbert Stewart’s consultation on the Sydney Gold Cup, which is to be run on the Rand wick course, N.S.W., on Easter Monday, will be drawn on the evening of that day. But those persons who wish to secure some interest in that event should lose no time in procuring their tickets, for this event, which can be obtained at Mr Stewart’s hotel, or at Mr C. Peters’ hotel, Dillraan’s Town. For the convenience of the more general speculator, sweeps take place to night, Saturday, and Monday (until the drawing), at the old Olai’endon Hotel, Main street. At the conclusion of the performance by the Comedy Company for the Hospital benefit on Tuesday night, Mr R. Love, one of the members of the company, in acknowledging the thanks of the Hospital Committee for the kind services rendered by the company that evening, took occasion to put in a kind word for the Court Minstrels, who, he said, had been very unfortunate during their visit to the West Coast. He referred especially to Mr Willie Smythe, one of their number, who had the additional misfortune of meeting with an accident whereby he became incapacitated from pursuing his profession, and stated that the members of the Comedy Company would feel rewarded for anything they had done for the good of the Hospital if the people would kindly accord Mr Smythe a bumper house on the occasion of a benefit which would be given to him on Wednesday, the 20th instant. Tenders are required to be sent to Messrs Hayes and Lynch, Westbrook, for sinking a paddock for the anchorage for a foot-bridge at Cape Terrace. Tenders to close on Saturday evening. In another column we publish a list of the proposed bonuses offered by the General Government of New Zealand, and which will be paid on articles produced in the colony, in the hope that it may be the means of reaching the eyes of some thriving individuals in our midst who may be possessed of the requisite knowledge or means of carrying into effect the industries mentioned. We leam that the New Zealand Drug Company, (Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser and C 0.,) have announced their intention of entering the lists for the Government bonus of £SOO a year for three years for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. One of the directors has gone to Melbourne on business connected with the projected industry. Messrs Austin, Kirk and Co., of Christchurch, will compete for the bonus on earthenware, and Mr W. Crawford, of Wellington, will try for that offered for the making of starch. The machinery in connection with Mr. Crawford’s enterprise is all but complete. It is extremely likely that several of the Canterbury farmers who are already growing English flax or linseed will combine to inaugurate the linseed oil and cake manufacture. The pockets of Canterbury people must be pretty empty, or otherwise there is a great mania for speculation, as one of the late issues of the Press contains nearly sixteen columns of auction sales. A much larger quantity of cheese than had been promised for shipment by the ship Orari, from Lyttelton for London, has been forthcoming, and the quantity will be 60 or 70 tons. Mr Hannah’s art-union of watches and jewellery, announced to take place on Easter Monday, is for the present withdrawn. — [Advt. ] For list of prizes in a grand art-union at Hokitika see fourth page.— [Advt.] To those in search of merriment, visit S. S. Pollock’s, and obtain the great Irish song “The Babies in our Block,” or “Little Sally Waters”; price sixpence. [Advt.]