The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2310, 23 January 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1884.

Jurors summoned to attend the District Court at Hokitika, to-morrow, are elsewhere officially notified that their attendance will not be required. The nomination of candidates to fill an extraordinary vacancy in the Borough Council are appointed to made to-morrow (Thursday), at noon. Thomas Hodge, a storekeeper, who has been ailing for the last four years, was received into the Kumara Hospital some days ago, suffering from inflamation of the lungs. He had previously been an inmate for eighteen months of the Hokitika Hospital. His case was hopeless, and he died on Monday evening. His remains are to be interred in the Kumara Cemetery to-morrow. William Wilmott, whilst endeavouring on Monday morning last to free a block in Turnbull and party’s claim, Dunedin Flat, in which he was working, was washed down the tail-race for a distance of 600 feet, but escaped, fortunately, without much injury. .The weather continuing favourable as it now is, the comet will be seen in the west to-night, 20 to 25 degrees above the horizon so soon as twilight has disappeared, the tail extending northwards from the nucleus. It should be visible till near 11 o’clock. The numerous friends of Mr George Darrell will be pleased to learn that he intends to revisit New Zealand shortly for the purpose of producing his new play, “ The Sunny South,” a piece which has been very highly spoken of by the Australian Press. The Empress of Russia is said to be dying with consumption, and the Empress of Austria to have given up hunting for sonnet writing. Colimbiar, once the confident of Sarah Bernhardt, has published Sarah’s life, under the title of “ Sarah Barnum.” Its keen satire is amusing. A special cablegram states that—- “ The Pope has approved of the nomination of the Right Rev. Patrick Francis Moran, D.D., Bishop of Ossory, formerly Professor of Hebrew in the College of the Propaganda, Rome, to the Archbishopric of Sydney. The formal appointment will not, however, be made until the existing vacancies in the Irish Secs are tilled.