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Kumara Times, Issue 2534, 5 August 1884, Page 3

v. n. AUCTION SALE OF CROWN LANDS. Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned CROWN LANDS will be SUBMITTED TO AUCTION on WEDNESDAY, the 3rd day of September, 1884, at 2 o’clock, in the Land Office, HOKITIKA. Town of Kumara—Sections 357 and 358, containing 20 perches each. Upset price, £5 each. J, GILES, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Hokitika, August 1, 1884. jQEOLARATION OF WAR. When the first note of preparation was sounded- in the East, and the warcloud was no larger than a man’s hand ; and while the principal potentates of Europe, though breathing peace, were silently girding up their loins for a struggle as fierce in the encounter and more baneful in its results than any which has hitherto devastated the face of our mother earth : it was then that he sought every means in his power to avoid such another calamity that befel Plevna by obtaining for the coming year a very large assortment of WEST OF ENGLAND CLOTHS, COATINGS, TWEEDS, Also, COLONIAL TWEEDS, To enable the inhabitants of Kumara to stand a long siege. Who has done this ?—Why JOHN DAVIES, TAILOR, Seddon street. N.B, Charges moderate ; repairs neatly executed. WAR ! WAR !—NO RETREAT, JOHNSTON AND WATKINS, CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEERS, AUTHORISED AND LICENSED SURVEYORS. Underground Surveys contracted for by the year and otherwise. Plans of Mining Machinery prepared. Offices; I’eefton, I.yell, and Kumara. ' Kumara address : Times Office,