The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2111, 5 June 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1883.

Jurors summoned to attend the District Court at Hokitika on Thursday next, the 7th instant, are officially informed that their attendance will not be required. The Licensing Committee for the Borough of Kumara met at the Court House to-day, at noon, for the purpose of holding the annual licensing meeting. All the members were present, viz., Messrs H. Burger (Chairman), J. O'Hagan, Wm. Nicholson, J. Hannah, and W. Close. Sergeant Russell was present. Mr D. Hannan said he appeared for himself and various other publicans of the town, and applied for an adjournment of the meeting, so as to give them the benefit of more time. After some consultation with his colleagues, the Chairman replied that the Committee, in compliance with the wishes of various publicans, have decided to adjourn the licensing meeting until Saturday, the 16th inst., at noon. And the meeting was accordingly adjourned. The Licensing Committee of Hohonu met yesterday ; particulars appear in another column. Overtures of peace are reported to have been made to the French Commander at Madagascar by the Hovas, who occupy the north-west portion of that island. The two lads Ogden and Sutherland, who were found guilty of the atrocious murders in Epping Forest, in Tasmania, in April last, were executed yesterday. The Union Company's steamer Mahinapua left Wellington yesterday evening, and will arrive at Greymouth on to-morrow morning's tide, and will be despatched on her return trip to-morrow evening. The Hospital Committee will hold their usual fortnightly meeting at the Town Hall this evening, at 8 o'clock.

The Wesleyan tea meeting, which was postponed from the 24th May till some future date, is to take place on Wednesday, the 20th inst., in the Masonic Hall. There are 148 entries for the Meldourne Cup, 142 for the Caulfield Cup, and 59 for the Champion Stakes. Mr Strutt's historical picture of " Black Thursday " has been sold for £2OOO, and is to be presented to the South Australian National Gallery. The special correspondent of the Age telegraphs that the wheat crops throughout Engiand are in a backward condition, but a good harvest is nevertheless antici. pated. In America the yield for the present year will not be equal to that of 1882. For a long while past (writes a correspondent of the Press) a strong smell of kerosene has been noticed in some of the water-races between Charleston and Fox's> on the West Coast. Suspecting the presence of a petroleum spring in the vicinity, an American gentleman of large experience has gone there, with a view to test the nature of this exudation. 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 gent, Kumara and Hokitika. —[Advt]. The Stranger in London. —That the Great City will ere long be hardly recognisable by its former denizens, all the world has heard. The visitor passing up the Thames now finds his eye gratified by the many edifices recently erected. As he reaches the famous Victoria Embankment, there rises over him on the right hand the new Times office, and on the left hand the new tower-crowned works of Messrs James Epps and Co., both phases of Italian architecture. It may be said that these two buildings are types of the farreaching business energy of the nineteenth century, for it has resulted from such means that these two establishments have brought themselves to the fore, and that tbe annual issue of each has come to be estimated by millions. During the last year, the number of copies of the Times is estimated at 16,276,000, while the numher of packets of Epps's Cocoa sent off in the same period is computed at 14,749,695. The latter is a large total, when it is borne in mind that in 1830 the consumption of Cocoa throughout the whole kingdom was but 425,3821b5., there then existing no preparation such as this, which by the simple addition of a little boiling water would yield a palatable drink. Truly time may be said to work many changes.— [Advt.]