The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2345, 4 March 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1884.

The half-yearly meeting of the Miners Association was held at the Empire Hotel, Dillmau’s Town last evening. Our report will be published to-morrow. The Hospital Committee will hold their monthly meeting at the Town Hall this evening. The Friendly Society delegates will also attend, to consider applications for the appointment of a resident Medical Officer to the local Hospital. The quarterly licensing meetings for the districts of Kumara and Arahura take place at noon to-morrow; for the borough at the Court House, Kumara, and for the district of Arahura at the Court House, Stafford. The City of Sydney, with the January English mails left San Francisco for Auckland on the 17th inst., two days later than time-table date. The Australia, with the January colonial mails, arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on the 25th inst., two days earlier than time-table date. We have received from the Grey mouth agents of the Union Steamship Company (Messrs Nancarrow and Co.) the Pocket Guide for March. The interest created by the special excursion to the islands of the Fiji group, carried out by the company last season, has induced the directors to contemplate a repetition of the trip, but on a more extended basis, so as to include a visit to Samoa and Tonga—islands which are yearly growing in importance commercially, but with which there is no communication at present except by stray sailing vessels. The company have therefore decided, should sufficient inducement offer, to despatch one of their finest steamers, the Wairarapa, on a month’s cruise to the islands of the South Pacific. The fare from Auckland will be £3O. The Rev. C. Jennings is announced to preach in Holy Trinity Church to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. The Rev. W. Morley, the newly-elected President of the Wesleyan Conference, will lecture in the Wesleyan Church, Third street, on Thursday evening next, at eight o’clock, on behalf of the Connexional Loan Fund. “Dr. Guthrie : Preacher, Author, and Philanthropist,” is announced as the subject of Mr Morley’s lecture, and we have no doubt that in his hands the subject will be ably treated. Admission to the lecture will be free, but a collection will be made in aid of the Loan Fund. A meeting of bachelors was held in the Masonic Hall last evening, when about thirty gentlemen were present. It was unanimously agreed to hold a bachelors’ ball in June. We understand the proceeds will be given to the Hospital fund. Messrs W. J. MTlroy and Co., having taken tojthe business of Mr G. Rudkin in Main street, solicit the patronage of the public, and desire to say that in order to merit their support they intend to keep a large and well-assorted stock of first-class goods, which they intend to offer at the lowest possible market rates. The character and variety of their stock will be known by referring to a conspicuous advertisement on the next page. Mr S. S. Pollock intends reopening his store in Main street in a few days, and announces that the principle in the conduct of his business will be “ Cash versus Credit.” Sir W. J. Clarke is to be installed District Grand Master of the Freemasons of Victoria, under the English Constitution, on the 26th March, at the Town Hall. In the evening there will be a banquet, at which a thousand persons will be present. Next evening there will be a grand ball. According to the London Times a “new railway is now projected by private capitalists to connect the East and West Coasts of the Middle Island of New Zealand. This will bring the minerals of the W: t Coast to the grain-producing disti ici ■. of the East, The capitalists coui corning themselves in this project are also

intimately associated with the development of the district served by the New Zealand Shipping Company.” The sum of L 31,010 17s 6d was lodged by depositors in the Dunedin Savings Bank, and L 35,541 Is was withdrawn during 1883. For the same period the bank received L 4187 18s 8d as interest on loans.