The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2584, 3 October 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1884.

To-night, at the Theatre Royal, a complimentary benefit is to be tendered to Mr David Williams, of this town, prior to his departure for Victoria, in recognition of his many services in the cause of charitable institutions and purposes for the past fifteen years on the West Coast. The Catholic Brass Band have kindly volunteered their services for the occasion. The programme of the entertainment is a lengthy one, and is divided into three parts, vocal and instrumental music forming the chief feature. In each part, however, there is provided some change ; in the first Mr Williams himself will introduce some of his remarkable Chinese delineations, with fiddle accompaniment; in the second there will be a banjo and double song and dance, and a violin solo ; then the first appearance of the Abyssinian Minstrels ; finishing with songs and an American prize jig. The lengthened period over which Mr Williams’ gratuitous services have on so many occasions been extended should ensure general recognition by the public, and we hope this one benefit tendered to him will be largely patronised. The overture will commence at eight o’clock.

The Borough Council meeting which should have been held last night was adjourned till four o’clock to-morrow afternoon.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before J. Giles, Esq., R.M., O. W. Anderson sued John Skipper for the sum of £l6 17s 6d. Plaintiff stated that defendant was partner with him in a claim ; he used to come to him and get what he wanted, cash, drinks, &c. His Worship gave judgment for plaintiff for £2 14s Gd, and Court costs 10s.

Commander Edwin’s message to-day is of a more pleasing character than usual lately—“lndications that glass will further rise ; and to-night frost or very cold.” On the 30th September (says the Wellington correspondent of the Grey River Argus) Mr Guinness asked the Colonial Treasurer whether the Government will place a sufficient sum of money on the Estimates for the purpose of erecting in some convenient place on the West Coast of the Middle Island a home for aged, infirm, cr incapacitated miners. His reason for placing this question upon the Order Paper was simply to ascertain whether the Government felt justified in placing a small sum of money upon the Estimates for the pui’pose of erecting a home such as that described in the question. He believed lie was correct in stating that in several parts of the colony such homes had been erected for many years past out of the consolidated revenue. On the West Coast they had neither the homes nor the assistance asked for in this question. He therefore hoped he should receive a favorable reply from the Government.—Sir J. Vogel said the Government did not see their way at present to place a sum of money on the Estimates for the purpose detailed in question. A quadrille assembly will be held at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock.

A few days ago a special telegram published in this journal stated that Denis Duggan, the rescuer of a number of Irish political prisoners from Western Australia, had died at Dublin. An exchange recalls the particulars of the rescue, as follows : —“A great sensation was caused in April, 1876, by the daring rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Freomantle, W estern Australia. The rescue was evidently effected by a carefully-prepared and preconcerted plan. The men, who were working outside the gaol on the morning of Easter Monday, the 17th April, escaped from the custody of the warders, and were taken oil' by a boat to

an American whaler, the Catalpa, commanded by Captain Anthony. A vessel was despatched after the whaler from Fremantle, with a body of armed police, but as they were instructed only to demand the convicts, and not to take them by force, they failed to recover them ; the whaler departed, and the prisoners were never recaptured. Several persons were concerned in the affair, and the leader of the rescuing party, Denis Duggan, has now died in Dublin. His remains were followed to the grave by several thousand persons.”

The Dispatch Foundry Company, Greymouth, advertise that they have any quantity of wrought-iron rails suitable for water-races, which they will cut to lengths required, at half the cost of cast-iron. Particulars at Mr Foldi’s, Dillman’s.

Sankey, Moody’s fellow evangelist, is hopelessly broken down in health.

George Campbell, of Denniston, Westport, feeling dissatisfied with his recent defeat by R. Pettigrew, of Greymouth, challenges anyone in the colony to a quoit match, distance 10yds., 17ft) quoits, for £IOO or £2OO aside.

A match has been arranged between Mr Richard’s black mare Polly, and Mr Cameron’s grey pony Scotty, to be run at Ross, for £lO, on the 19th of the present month. Distance one mile; catch weights. In the opinion of Archbishop Moran there is a great future before the Roman Catholic Church of Australasia. Whilst, he says, at the present day some churches of Europe hitherto renowned throughout Christendom are showing signs of decrepitude and decay, as if the judgment of God awaited them, marking them out for the blight and desolation which have fallen upon the once flourishing churches °f Fgypt and the East, there are many signs of the hand of Heaven in the growth of the church beneath the Southern Cross.

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, ’7B 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 Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength.”— The Parents. See