The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2394, 1 May 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1884.

MrR. J. Sedclon, will address the electors at the Empire Hotel, Dillman’s Town, this evening, at eight o’clock. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. Applications for licenses as authorised by the “ Licensing Act, 1881,” are to be lodged with J. M‘Ennis, Esq., Clerk to the Licensing Committees of the Borough of Knmara and the District of Hohonu, not later than for Kumara, Wednesday, the 14th, and for Hohonu, Tuesday, the 13th inst. These applications will be heard at the annual meetings of the Licensing Committees, which for the Borough of Kumara takes place at the Court House, Knmara, at noon on Wednesday, the 4th June ; and for the Disof Hohonu, at the Court House, Greenstone, at noon on Tuesday, the 3rd June. In the Gazette of the 24th ult., to hand this morning, wc notice Francis Alexander Monckton, Esq., M.R.C.S., London, has been appointed to be a Public Vaccinator under the “ Public Health Act, 187 G,” for the Kumara district ; and Robert Graham Johnston, Esq., L.R.C.P., Edinburgh, to be a Public Vaccinator, under the said Act, for the Waimoa district. The winter excursion to the South Sea islands of the Union Company’s steamship 'tVairarapa is definitely decided to come oft, tuc requisite number of passengers having been hooked. The Wairarapa is to leave Adelaide on the 4th of June. The trip will probably occupy 30 days, and the programme of the excursion will be somo\vhat as follows :—Auckland to biji, occupying about 4 days ; spend visitin;.; different islands of the gr.up, G daws. Ifiji to Samoa, cu route, 3 days ; spend about the island, 4 days. Samoa to Tonga, mi route, 3 dava ; spend there, 4 days. Uetiiru voyage, Tonga to Auckland,'’ 4 d-i dd ■ ..wy ..r.e-h.df ~f the ' ‘ • ' : A - '■ 'old ore--;..U in VI.SJ.tiUg ivlid vXpj.Oi'Uig viiC ■

A miner named Robert Macallister is reported by the Argus to have met with a painful accident yesterday while working in his claim at Hatters Terrace, Nelson Creek. He was engaged in arranging his hose on the top of the face when the bank gave way and precipitated him into the claim, whereby he broke his collarbone, some of his ribs, and received internal injury. He was brought into town and lodged in the Hospital the same evening, and his injuries at once attended to. Macallister is a miner of old standing and very well-known in the district. On Tuesday last, at Kokatahi, (writes the West Coast Times), Mrs Dawson, the wife of a farmer, was violently attacked by a large pig, which ran at her, knocked her down, and seized her arm, holding it in its jaw until Mrs Dawson’s cries brought assistance from the house. Mr Dawson having raised her from the ground found her clothes saturated with blood. He quickly bound up the wounded arm in the best way he could, and drove to town for surgical attendance, where the injuries were carefully examined and dressed by Dr. Tivy. Shortly after the patient was driven home by her husband, as well as might be expected under the circumstances. The position of the Oreti on the North Beach is, we (Argus) are glad to state, somewhat improved. By judicious preparations yesterday, and the running out of a ketch, the steamer was, with the assistance of the tide, moved 14 feet towards the river. As the weather is apparently settled for some days to come, there is every appearance of the vessel being successfully brought back into the river. No outward damage is visible at present.