The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2564, 10 September 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1884.

Cholera and the mortality from it continues most alarming in Naples. GOO fresh cases occurred yesterday, and 270 deaths during the same period.

The poll for the election of three Borough Councillors to fill three ordinary vacancies in the Council which occur by rotation yearly, will take place to-morrow, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., at the Town Hall. Five candidates have been nominated for these seats, whose names (placed alphabetically) are as follow :—Messrs George Anderson, Henry Fitzsimons, Michael Maloney, George Rudkin, and George Stewart. Mr and Mrs Bracken arrived in Kumara by tram last evening, en route to Christchurch. As Mr Bracken has two spare evenings before him, he resolved last night to give two more lectures, one to-night at Stafford, the other on Thursday, at the Theatre Royal, Kumara. " The Bad Old Times," the subject he has chosen for his lecture at Kumara is, we understand, the best of all Mr Bracken's series, and is highly amusing. It will be illustrated by readings from Beranger, Macarthy, Howe, "Anon," and Max Adeler. Admission will be at the low prices of 2s to front seats, and Is to the back seats. Those who formerly, through unpropitioua weather or other causes, failed to hear Mr Bracken, will now have another opportunity afforded them of hearing this gifted author and elocutionist, and we are sure many of those who have already heard Mr Bracken will be delighted with the prospect of another farewell intellectual and amusing treat.

We have received from the Government Printer the first number of Hansard, which is now issued to the public at the reduced price of 2d. We see the Borough Council of Ross has advertised a "Statement of Approximate Receipts and Expenditure of the Borough of Ross for the Year ending 31st March, 1885." The total receipts are estimated at £2091, and the expenditure at £2538 19s 3d.

At a meeting of the Hokitika Hospital Committee last evening, a letter was received from the German Gully Society, requesting the Central Committee to pay £llos to the Kumara Hospital Committee, for treatment of a patient coming from German Gully.—After some discussion, on the motion of Mr Northcroft, it was resolved to inform the German Gully Society that the request could not be entertained.

We yesterday gave the Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Star's reference to Mr Seddon. This is what the Auckland Free Lance in its "Political Notes of the Week " says of the Kumara member :—" Mr Seddon has been in his way a power in the House for some years. He is a good speaker, though he speaks too much ; he has much force of character, though he too often wastes it on unworthy questions. Above all, he has-been a staunch ally of Sir George Grey. Where Sir George Grey has pointed, Seddon has run—where Grey has led he has followed. Add to this partizanship, his power to speak both loud and long, and it will be seen that he was not without value to his party and his party leader. The Kumara Quadrille Club will hold their usual meeting at the Adelphi Theatre to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock. A dance, under the auspices of the Kumara Gymnastic Club, will be held in the Adelphi Theatre, on Friday evening, September 26. A novel, but as it proved, most successful ball took place at Woodend (Victoria), recently. The novelty consisted in making it imperative for every person present to wear a pair of sheets and two pillow cases as a dress, to be afterwards left behind as a douation to the Kyneton and Austin Hospitals.

A Scolding Woman.—The barbarities of the ducking stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law, are now oftentimes practised by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women scold only when they are ill. Instead of blaming them we should prescribe Hop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will be quieted and ascerbity of word and thought will give place to amiability and affection. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Read