The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2566, 12 September 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1884.

With this evening’s issue we publish in a separate form Mr Seddon’s speech on the recent defeat of the Stout-Yogel Ministry, delivered in the House of Representatives on the 16th ultimo. Since that time the Atkinson Ministry have been defeated, and the Stout-Yogel Ministry are in office again. The Premier stated yesterday afternoon that the Financial Statement would be delivered on Tuesday evening next. The poll for the election of three Borough Councillors took place at the Town Hall yesterday, and resulted in the return of Messrs H. Fitzsimons, G. Anderson, and M. Maloney. The following were the votes polled :

Votes. Fitzsimons, Henry 94 Anderson, George 85 Maloney, Michael 66 Rudkin, George 59 Stewart, George 20 Messrs Fitzsimons, Anderson, and Maloney thanked the electors, and a vote of thanks to the Returning Officer concluded the proceedings. We have received from the Government Printer a bundle of parliamentary reports and papers. The public debt of New Zealand on the 31st March, 1884, was £31,178,411, which exceeds Victoria’s, a sister colony’s, by about £4,000,000. The Colonial Secretary yesterday, in reply to a question, said Government had no intention at present of making any alteration in the constitution of the Legislative Council. Mr Tims. Bracken, the New Zealand poet, was to have given a farewell lecture at the Theatre Royal last night, but the elements were so furious that but very few people other than those who were compelled by business ventured out from their homes, and the to many anticipated treat had to be waived. Mr Bracken has been most unfortunate as regards weather for his tour ; he will at all events have it fine for his return across the ranges, as he took his departure by the coach, this morning for Christchurch. He will leave on Tuesday next for Wellington, where he intends to establish an advertising and news agency business. He was accompanied in his tour by Mrs Bracken. We are requested by Mr Gow, the Manager of the Kumara Sludge-Channel, to state that the letter which appeared in the the West Coast Times of the 10th inst. from its parliamentary correspondent purporting to be a copy of a letter of his (Mr Gow’s) to the Under-Secretary for Goldfields is bristling with mistakes, and several lines are apparently wilfully omitted therefrom. At the evening sitting on Wednesday of the Wesland County Council, on the motions of Mr M‘Whirter it was resolved—-

(1.) That Mr Kerr prepare plans and specifications by next meeting for repairing, and, where necessary, deviating the track from Big Dam to Fox’s. (2.) That Mr Kerr be instructed to survey and blaze a line for a track from the old Lamplough township to the Three Mile Creek. (3.) That Mr Kerr expend £ls in repairing the Lower German Gully track, (4.) That leave of absence for three months be granted to R. J. Seddon, Esq., M.H.R. A cablegram received as we were going press states that the match which had been arranged between the Australian cricketers and an All England team, being a fourth match, has been abandoned, and in the match with the South of England, which is to be the final one of their tour, the Home team have been all disposed of in their first innings for 56 runs.

The result of the Beach-Hanlan sculling championship match was known in London, ordinarily speaking, four and a-half hours before the race actually took place. The fact is that the result was telegraphed to England along many thousand miles of wire in 5 hours 35 minutes. But as Sydney time is in advance of London (or Greenwich) 10 hours 5 minutes, and the race was over at 4.30 p.m. Sydney time, the news thus reached London at 12 o’clock noon, or, as we have said, four and a-half hours before the Sydney time of the the sculling race occurred at London.

A Lyell correspondent telegraphed to the Westport Times on Friday last that an immense slip has occurred on the LyellNelson road, half a mile from the former township. It carried away the whole of the road formation for a length of three chains. All wheel traffic must be suspended for a considerable time, but horse traffic may be made practicable if the old bush track is put in order. The work of re-forming the road will take a length of time and considerable outlay. It is now generally understood (says the Presbyterian) that the pioneer Presbyterian minister, the Rev. W. Bannerman, is under medical orders to retire from the labours of the ministry. The immediate cause is such a stiffness of the knee joint as will hamper his movements. For thirty years his parish embraced all the regions from the Taieri River to Riverton in Southland. It is matter of congratulation that his health is established. We cannot doubt that work suited to his condition will be found for him by which he can serve the Church he loves.

We (Auckland Herald, September 2nd) are sorry to hear that Mr Mack D. Alexander, one of the prominent members of Mr Willmott’s Dramatic Company, is suffering from congestion of the lungs, and will not, it is feared, be able to leave his bed for a fortnight.

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

Lady Beautifiers.—Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyes with all the cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in poor health, and nothing will give you such rich blood, good health, strength, and beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is certain proof. See