The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2585, 4 October 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1884.

The complimentary benefit to Mr David Williams last night, at the Theatre Royal, was well attended, and the performers who gave their services on the occasion received well-merited applause. A fuller notice is reserved for next issue. It was expected when the Rev. Mr Holland made arrangements to leave Kumara last Tuesday that the minister who is to succeed him, the Rev. Mr Heflernan, to the charge of Holy Trinity Church, would arrive here by the following Sunday. As the steamer Hauroto, in which vessel the reverend gentleman took passage from Sydney only arrived at Wellington on Thursday afternoon, it is obvious he cannot now be here by tomorrow. The churchwardens, therefore, announce that there will be no service in the church to-morrow. The Christchurch coach arrived early this afternoon, with East Coast and Australian mails.

There will be a meeting of the Literary Institute Committee this evening, at 7.30 p.m. sharp. A public meeting is announced to be held at the Empire Hotel, Dillraan’s, on Monday evening next, at eight o’clock. It is in reference to raining matters, and is of importance. Mr J. W, Hall, the canvassing agent for the Australian Mutual Provident Life Assurance Society, is now in Kumara. He has the protection of the Camp at his back; for although he is not a very large man, it is said he can kill at first shot; therefore he is sure to take many lives. Commander Edwin wired shortly after noon to-day:—“lndications of strong winds between north-west and west and south-west ; glass rise again after six hours.” Messrs Girdwood, Lahman and Co. will sell by auction, at the Preston Yards, Greymouth, on Monday next, a lot of magnificent bullocks, cross-bred wethers, and a grey horse, broken to saddle and harness. At the Goldfields Committee on Thursday morning, Mr H. A. Gordon, Inspecting Engineer, gave evidence on the reduction in the price of water, and Kumara sludge-channel regulations. A new organ for All Saint’s Church, Nelson, was dedicated last Friday evening. It was built by Messrs Lewis and Co., of Brixton, London, to whom the order was sent, chiefly on account of the excellence of their work in the sweet-toned instrument which has been in use for over twelve years in Christ Church, and in two or three other organs which have recently been sent out to this colony. The total number of pipes in the instrument is 478, but provision has been made for five extra stops, two in the great and three in the swell organ, and when these are completed the full number of pipes will be 758. In the chess match Hookham v. Jacobsen, champions of Canterbury, another game was played on Tuesday, which resulted in a win for the latter gentleman. A great deal of interest is now taken in this contest, as they have each won six games, and six have been drawn. The next game won will conclude the match. The Australian cricketers have netted £7OO per man on the tour. This is not to be wondered at when we see that 20s was charged for admission to the covered stands, and 10s to the uncovered (not including admission to the ground). On the second day of the second All England match, 21,000 spectators were present. The Sydney Evening News says that Edward Hanlan has become so enamoured of Sydney that he intends make it his his home. Bonner, the newspaper publisher, recently paid Vanderbilt 50,000 dollars for the celebrated trotter Maud S. Her record is 2mins. Ofsecs., and the new owner thinks he can reduce it to 2mins. 0-7 secs. Chiarini’s circus and menagerie is now in Auckland. The tent in which the exhibition takes place has sitting accommodation for 5000 people. No doubt such a “ big show ” as this will cause a sensation wherever it is exhibited throughout the colony. The New York Grand Master of Oddfellowship issued an address to the Order on August 19th, in which he recommended that funerals take place at night. Less money ought to be spent on the dead, and more on the living. He also said Oddfellowship was so rapidly decreasing in New York, that it was almost unknown in polite society there. 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