The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2012, 9 February 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1883.

The Wcstland portions of the San Francisco mails, having arrived at Lyttelton yesterday, may be expected in Kumara to-morrow afternoon. It is elsewhere notified that all arrears of rates due to the Borough of Kumara remaining unpaid after the 23rd of February will be sued for without further notice.

At a meeting of the Long Tunnel Company held on the sth instant, a call of (the eighth) of twopence per share was made payable at the office of the company on Wednesday next, the 14th inst.

The fruits which Nature has ordained should successively grow and ripen in their season to perfection that they may be good for man in purifying the blood and renovating the system are well understood by experienced heads of families ; and the life and vigor they impart to body and mind are also pretty well known to those of tender years. Mr Henry Burger, being fully alive to the advantages of having a regular supply of such fruits has opened the shop next to his fancy goods

store, where he will supply families and the trade, at the most reasonable prices, with apples, pears, peaches, &c, in any quantity.

The secretary of the Reefton Jockey Club has received the following communication from the Nelson Commissioner of Crown Lands : "Nelson, 26th January. At a meeting of the Land Board held yesterday, it was resolved to recommend the reservation of 150 acres of ground near Reefton, for the purpose of a public recreation ground. The Wanganui Herald is responsible for the statement that at an early period of next session the Premier will introduce a Bill to reform the Legislative Council; that the measure will be on the lines of his 1878 Bills ; and that the Hare system of representation will be introduced. A greyhound, bred in New Zealand, has gained a triumph on the coursing grounds of England. At a meeting of the Burton-on-Trent Club, the Anglesey Cup for all ages was won by Mr W. Carver's bd. b. Arama, by Ledgerkeeper, out of Magic. The latter was bred by Mr H. H. Prince who owned both Ledgerkeeper and Magic. Mr Prince made a present of Arama and a sister to Mr Carver when that gentleman was on a visit to New Zealand some time ago.

Every widow left by the Creswick mining disaster has been presented with a sewing machine by the Singer Manufacturing Company. This very practical act of charity is worthy of record and remembrance.

Captain William Morgan, the Freemason who is said to have divulged the secrets of the order and afterwards mysteriously disappeared, has had a monument erected to his memory at Batavia. It is a shaft 40ft. high, with anti-Masonic tablets. He was a native of Virginia, and served in the war of 1812, in which he was promoted to a captaincy. The Wonderful Wertheim Sewing Machine may be had upon Time Payment, easiest terms for any part of the country, no matter where you live. With perfect ease and simplicity they will make very fine double seams or fells, will kilt, braid, make their own braid and stitch it on at the same time, bind, cord, ruffle gather, sew on ribbons and trimmings, tuck, hem to any width, bind scallops, and fold dress material with raw edges, bind on the bias, embroider curtains or antimacassars, stitch heaviest tweeds or moleskins, muslin or calico. Every kind of family or factory sewing. The Wertheim machines wind their own bobbins without guidance as level as reels of cotton. They are guaranteed for ten years, but will last a a lifetime. Easy to learn, light in running, strong, handsome, and durable. Catalogues, samples of work, and particulars free by post from James Renton, sole agent, Kumara and Hokitika.— [Advt.]