The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1595, 7 November 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1881.

Those electors of the Arahura Riding who are purposing to nominate members for the Westland County Council will require to forward such nominations to the Court House, Stafford, before noon to-morrow.

The post and telegraph offices will be closed on Wednesday (the Prince of Wales' Birthday), in fact, in all respects as on Sunday. The Union Company's s.s. Albion had a remarkably good run from Hokitika to Sydney. She left Hokitika on Monday the 17th nit., at 10 a.m., and arrived at Sydney Heads on the 21st instant at 7.10 p.m. Experienced variable winds from N.N.E. to W.N.W. until the 10th ; from thence KE, winds and squally weather, with vivid lightning, and on the 20th instant wind increased to a heavy gale from the S.W., with high sea, which continued to arrival, after a remarkable

passage of four days ten hours to Sydney wharf. The Alhambra takes the place of the Albion this month, and will leave the West Coast ports on the 19th inst., for Newcastle and Melbourne. Mr P. Dnngau, one of the candidates for the Arahura Riding as a member of the Westland County Council, will address the electors at Dillman's Town, this evening at 8 o'clock ; and Mr Sandle will meet the ratepayers at Goldsborough tomorrow evening at the same hour. Mr R. J. Seddon addressed the electors at Stafford Town on Friday evening last, there being one of the largest gatherings ever seen at Stafford. Votes of confidence in Mr Seddon as a member of the House of Representatives and as a County Councillor were unanimously carried. On Saturday evening last, Mr H. W. Sandle addressed a meeting of the electors at the Oddfellows Hall, Stafford. Mr Robert Stewart occupied the chair. Mr Sandle having spoken for upwards of an hour, and having replied to several questions in which he proved conclusively that he had never by any act, either in or out of the Council, thrown any obstacle in the way of the total abolition of the gold duty, on the motion of Mr John Gibson seconded by Mr James Turner, Mr Sandle received a unanimous vote of confidence. There were over 200 persons present. A sub-agency of the National Bank of New Zealand will be opened at Goldsborough to-morrow, for the purchase of gold and transaction of general banking business. It will be under the charge of Mr A. L. Bristow. The result of Cameron's Consultation on the Melbourne Cup, which closed with £5250, was as follows :—First horse, ticket 2917, went to Christchurch ; second horse, ticket 3959, to Invercargill, and the third horse, ticket 470, to Queenstown. On Wednesday evening next we are to have another treat by the now famed Kumara Amateur Dramatic Club, which will be in aid of one of the many deserving institutions of this town, namely, St. Patrick's School. The object, it is said, is to liquidate the debt on this school. Everyone knows how much easier it is to get on in the world free than to have one's house, a church, or a school, in debt, thereby having to pay interest year by year for amount owing, and so crippling the usefulness of the moneys which come in in the ordinary course which should otherwise be applied to the sole purposes of education. And when this desirable end can be attained by a good turn out of the public to contribute each their mite to so laudable an object, and at the same time enjoy a good evening's amusement, there is a double satisfaction in doing so. For further particulars we need only refer our readers to the second column of this page ; they will there see the names of those ladies and gentlemen who have again kindly undertaken the task of pleasthe public by their acting, singing, painting, and playing. So, come out if you please, and liquidate this debt. Tenders for an addition to the Cobden School building are required to be sent in to Mr E. T. Robinson, secretary, Greymouth, on or before Wednesday next. Consequent on some sad differences of opinion l-egarding their knowledge of angles and respective abilities to make the same with ivory balls on a green cloth, a well-known professor of the common double-pronged instrument and a popular wielder of the mash-rule have resolved to back their opinions by a trial of skill, at Rugg's, this evening, the man of small stature conceding 15 out of 100 to his stalwart opponent, both parties being rerequired to say before each stroke what he is about to do.