The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2558, 3 September 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1884.

To-night, at the Theatre Royal, Mr Bracken will deliver his second and farewell lecture on {t Poets” of Great Britain and Ireland, giving recitations from various authors. He will also introduce his own fine poem “Dear Old Bendigo,” which many heard Mrs Dargon read here with good and grand effect. After the sentimental and pathetic songs, Mr Bracken will favour those who come to hear him with “An hour with Handy Andy,” when we expect to hear some very humorous quotations. A contemporary says “ There are two lines in which Mr Bracken is especially strong—the pathetic and the humorous; it is hard to say in which he is best. Nor is he behind in depicting the more heroic and sterner emotions.” We advise all who wish to hear a really intellectual treat to be present to-night.

The coach from hence yesterday morning, doubtless owing to the flooded state of the rivers, did not succeed in getting through to the Bealey yesterday ; and as it had not arrived there early this morning, the Springfield coach started this way at 7 a.m, to meet it. The coach may possibly arrive here late this evening.

Latest advices from Wellington are that Mr Stout is forming another Ministry, Yogel, Tole, Ballance, and Richardson being members. The Times’ Wellington correspondent says :—“lt is rumoured that Larnach has given way to Captain Morris. The Hon. Randall Johnston was asked to take the conduct of the Government business in the Upper House and refused. Hon. Reynolds or Buckley will probably now be selected. It don’t matter much which, for the Government can’t possibly stand, so long as there are so many of the late Stout-Yogel Ministry in it.” The House of Representatives has decided to reduce the price of Hansard to 2d per copy, and as there are about 30 copies published each session, the subscription for one session will be ss. Should the full number not be issued, a corresponding refund will be made to subscribers at the end of the session. Any person wishing to subscribe can do so by paying subscription in advance to any Postmaster in the colony. Commander Edwin wired at 11.58 a.m. to-day : —“Bad weather may be expected between west and south and south-east; glass farther rise, and much colder weather after ten hours from now. ”

The following were the applicants for the position of Town Clerk of Ross:— Messrs J. Potter, Ross; J. MTHarmid, Ross; J. C. Harvey, Kumara; J. B. Lopas, Ross ; G. A. White, Oxford, Canterbury ; J. M'Neilson, Ross; Morse, Wanganui; L. Snow, Rimu ; D. Buntin, Ross; J. R. Muir, Ross; Sergeant Nelley, Hokitika; A. Cameron, Ross, J. Benyon, Okarito ; J. C. Macfarlane, Ross; S. Brentnall, Hokitika ; J. Barton, Hokitika ; and P. Stewart, Ross. Mr Macfarhuie received the appointment, by seven votes to three.

The Kumara Quadrille Club will hold their usual meeting at the Adelphi Theatre to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock. The Nelson Colonist of the 21st instant, states—“ The whole of the information gathered points to but one conclusion—that Mr George Moonlight met with an accident in the bush and died there. That such has been his melancholy fate is the opinion generally entertained, too, by those comprising the search parties, and who deserve the greatest credit for having willingly borne great privations and fatigue for so long in the hope of rescuing one who was well esteemed wherever he was known.”

There was a great gathering of newspaper people in the Town Hall at Hull recently, at the commemoration of the forty-fifth anniversary of the Yorkshire Newspaper Society. Many of the visitors were from far distant countries. Among the rest Mr Horton, of the New Zealand Herald, appeared, and who, in responding to the toast of “ The Visitors,” spoke of the enterprise of colonial journalism, and

rather opened some of their eyes, stating that New Zealand, with its infant settlements and only half a million of people, had thirty daily newspapers, or more than a third more than all the daily papers in Scotland.