The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2514, 11 July 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1884.

The Loyal Orange Lodge supper and ball take place this evening. The Masonic Hall has been very tastefully decorated for the occasion, and as a large number of tickets have been disposed of, there is a good prospect of an enjoyable evening being spent. Supper will be on the table at nine o’clock.

Mr Blake will address the electors at Diliman’s Town, at the Empire Hotel, to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock. The time has been altered to 7 o’clock to suit the convenience of miners who may be coming to town as usual on Saturday. Mr Seddon will address the electors at the Theatre Royal, Kumara, on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m.

A large meeting of the supporters of Mr R. J. Seddon was held at the Empire Hotel, -Dilhuan’s, last evening, when a numerous and inhueuiial committee consisting of over 60 persons formed for the purpose of securing elec tion to Parliament. The committee decided to hold tliciip)meetings at the Templar’s Hall, if available, and then adjourned sine die.

Captain Edwin wired an “urgent ” this afternoon at two o’clock, that “Bad weather may be expected between northwest and west and south ; glass rise within ten hours.”

At a meeting of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian congregation on Wednesday last, it was unanimously decided to ask the Presbytery to moderate in a call to the Rev. Mr Hay to fill the pastoral charges of Kumara and Stafford. In the Government Gazette of the 3rd inst., the appointment of Constable Dennis Hannan to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court and principal Clerk of the Warden’s Court at Stafford, vice James M‘Ennis, is notified. The London Athenaeum of the 10th May has the following “ The discovery of platinum in a vein is so rare an occurrence that we are compelled to direct attention to a paper by Mr J. A. Pond, which is published in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. In this he states that platinum in octahedral crystals has been found in a quartz vein in the Thames gold district.”

A Rattlesnake’s Bite. The quick venom of the rattlesnake has not killed so many people as the more insidious but deadly poisons found in the air of foul rooms. The aeration of the blood by the lungs becomes impossible sometimes, and the failing health, growing weakness, and loss of appetite are harbingers of approaching death. For such cases Hop Bitters are the potent and all-powerful remedy to drive all fevers out of the system, purifying the blood, and giving a new and happy lease of life. Notice