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Kumara Times, Issue 2550, 23 August 1884, Page 2

We are compelled to hold over till Monday a reply by the Mayor to our remarks last evening on the estimates and the striking of the borough rate. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour, with European, Australian, and East Coast mails. The entertainment at the Adelphi Theatre last night for the benefit of Louis Lousich was largely attended, and, we are pleased to learn, a sum has been x'aised which it is thought will be sufficient for the object in view. A fuller report will :>o given on Monday. Dancing at the ball afterwards was kept up till 4.45 this morning. The Report of the Seventh Quin<|uennial Investigation of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, printed at Sydney, readied us on Thursday svs-dng, that is on the same day that Router cabled us some brief particulars of it, so that the

Postal Department may be said to have defeated Reuter in the despatch of any information on the subject. The report, with tables, excellently printed by Mr Sands, of Sydney, occupies 50 pages demy 4to, with elaborate stereo and gilt wrapper. The division of profits were published in Thursday’s issue. “ Glass further rise, and hard frost tonight” is Commander Edwin’s message this afternoon. The Rev. J. Law, the recently appointed Wesleyan Minister at Greymouth, will conduct service in the Wesleyan Church, Third street, to-morrow morning and evening. We are pleased to announce that Mr T. Bracken, the New Zealand poet, is likely to give a lecture in Kumara during his short sojourn here. A new Roman Catholic Church is to be built at No Town. Its dimensions are 40ft. by 19ft. Messrs Seabrook and Arnott, of Greymouth, are the successful tenderers, and the price is £254, for which they have to furnish everything. Some of the furniture of the old church will be available. Messrs Girdwood, Lahman and Co. will sell at the Preston Yards, Greymouth, on Monday next, grand bullocks, cross-bred wethers, and store pigs. The Westport Times of Friday last notes :—“A man well known in the district, Peter Nelson by name, met with a painful accident, on Tuesday, and also suffered excessively when being brought to town. Nelson was working at the face in his claim at Old Diggings, when ten to fifteen tons of earth came away, with the unfortunate result that one of his legs was cleanly broken above the ankle. The injured man was placed in a trap at 4 p.m. and the journey to Westport commenced. The trip down proved a most difficult one : the night was stormy, and several slips had to be cleared away to allow the cart to proceed ; in one instance the vehicle had to be hauled backwards across the obstruction. The feelings of the unfortunate man Nelson during the journey may be imagined. Westport was reached yesterday forenoon, and Nelson was admitted to the Hospital.” Easily Proven.— lt is easily proven that malarial fevers, constipation, torpidity, of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgic ailments yield readily to this great diseaseconqueror, Hop Bitters. It repairs the ravages of disease by converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new life and vigour to the aged and infirm always. See