The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2583, 2 October 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1884.

Commander Edwin wired "urgent" at 1.30 p.m. to-day:—"Bad weather may be expected between north and east and south-east; glass fall again soon, and heavy rainfall after 12 hours."

By an arrangement made by Renter's Telegram Company (Limited), it will be possible for any one having friends in England to send Home a Christmas and New Year's greeting by cable message for the small sum of £l, on Christmas Eve. Those who intend to take advantage of the novel facility thus afforded will have to register their names and addresses at latest by the 25th inst. The complimentary benefit to Mr David Williams will take place at the Theatre Royal to-morrow night.

In reference to Dr. Monckton's Accident Bedstead, the following gratifying testimonial has been received from the Dunedin Hospital House Surgeon:—" We have had for many months in use one of Dr. Monckton's accident bedsteads, and I have much pleasure in testifying to its efficacy in all cases of accident, but more especially in cases of bad fractures which prevent the patient from getting out of his bed.— J. M. S. Davies, M.R.C.S., E., &c."

Sir John Hall, left for New Zealand from Liverpool on the 21st August, going to Montreal, and by Niagara and Chicago to San Francisco, leaving there by the September mail. It is probable that he will be joined at Chicago by Mr A. G. Horton, who purposes returning at that date to the colony. The Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, of Nelson, had a narrow escape of being killed last Friday afternoon. He and Mrs Tisdall were riding through Upper Wakefield when a runaway horse in a cart came suddenly upon them. Mrs Tisdall managed to get out of the way, but Mr Tisdall was not so fortunate. The shaft of the cart went right through his horse, and he himself was thrown some distance. He fortunately escaped with a few bruises, but his horse had to be destroyed. A heavy rain storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed over Nelson last Saturday morning. All the lower parts of the city were flooded. Streams cf water several inches deep were running through the houses. It was the heaviest storm known for years past.

A young man named Robert Farquhar, waggoner at Coop's Mill, Little River, was accidentally jammed between two logs on Thursday last. The Press states that Dr. Trimnell and Mr Rudd, of the Government Insurance Department, happened to be passing at the time, and attended to the injured man, and Dr. Singleton was sent for later, but the sufferer sank under his injuries, and died on Friday evening. An inquest was held on Saturday morning, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased was the only son of the late Mr Farquhar, of Amberley, who it will be remembered was recently gored to death by a bull. Willmott's Dramatic Company was still performing to fair houses in Auckland last week.

Mr and Mrs Hart who reside near Wellington, have been giving entertainments in country places near that city. The remains of J. A. M'Gahan, the European war correspondent of the New York Herald and London Daily News, and of whom Archibald Forbes spoke so highly when lecturing in Kumara, lay in state in New York on August 26.

Good Words—From Good Authority. * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter's Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that Hop Bitters have. * * We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., August 22, 78 from Benton, Myers and Co., Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see.

Good for Babies.-—" We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength."—The PAKms, ftee