The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2515, 12 July 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1884.

We remind the electors that Mr Edwin Blake, one of the candidates for the representation of the Kumara electorate in the ninth session of the New Zealand Parliament, will deliver his first address at the Empire Hotel, Dillman’s Town, this evening, at seven o’clock. A meeting of gentlemen favourable to his election will be Held after the address.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before D, Hannan, Esq., J.P., Ellen Simpson was charged with being drunk. She was fined ss, and 2s costs of Conrt, with the alternative of 24 hours’ imprisonment. The fines were paid. All the Blue Ribbon members are requested to attend a meeting at the Templars’ Hall, Dillman’s Town, on Monday evening next, at seven o’clock, for the purpose of organising a Bine Ribbon Association in this district, and for other important matters in connection with the movement.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday lapsed. Not a single member was present, but probably several knew that there was very little business to be transacted.

Messrs Girdwood, Lahmau and Co. will sell by auction, on Monday next, at the Preston Yards, Grey mouth, bullocks, cross-bred wethers, grand porkers and a cow.

A telegram from Blenheim states that a station hand named Stokes was killed on Thursday at Awatere, by a fall from his horse. He was a bad horseman, and subject to fits.

Regarding the Hanlan-Hearn proposed rowing match, a telegram from Wellington in an exchange states—“ Great apathy is shown by Hearn’s supporters in the matter of raising his stake money, and unless the amount is subscribed by the end of this week it is probable the match with Hanlan will fall through.” A party of clearers near Edenhope, in the Western District, Victoria, discovered on the Maryville Estate the remains of a woman and child, who had evidently been foully murdered. The child’s skull was fractured, and the woman had a saddlestrap round her neck, by which she - had apparently been strangled. The remains were covered with brushwood and logs, which had been set fire to.

The death is announced of a pedlar who sold nick-nacks on a tray on London Bridge and pretended to be deaf and dumb. Though clothed in rags, he was, it is said, a Swiss gentleman of fortune, who, stung by remorse, had taken a vow that he would not open his lips for ten years, and that he would go bearheaded and barefooted, and forego for twenty years all the advantages which fortune had bestowed upon him. He stuck to his vow, and was in his fourteenth year of voluntary servitude when he died.

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