The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2587, 7 October 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1884.

Tho Australasian Medical Gazette, published in Sydney, states that there is an epidemic of measles at Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand. None of our Press agents have suffered from this malady, or we should no doubt have heard of it before. Parties wishing to insure their lives in the famous Australian Mutual Provident Society have now an opportunity of doing so, Mr J. W. Hall, the Canvassing Agent, being now in Kumara. During the last five years this society has contracted an amount of new business exceeding that of any other British Office during a similar period ; and the little struggling infant, who, thirty-five years ago, was domiciled amid the spicy odours of a Grocery Shop, has developed into the lusty manhood of an institution, with successful branches in all the colonies, with upwards of 55,000 policies in force, covering assurances for £20,000,000, from which it derives an income of £1,000,000. The accumulated funds have reached the sum of over £5,000,000, and the office has already divided, as cash profits, upwards of £2,000,000.

It is reported that Mr H. A. Stratford will return to Greymouth towards the end of the current month. A telegram from Auckland last evening states that a Maori woman died at Puriri last week aged 107 years. The Hillman’s Town Quadrille Assembly will hold their usual meeting to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. A quadrille assembly will be held at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock. Tenders are required for the removal of a house in Hillman’s Town. Application is to be made to Mr M. Ryan, bootmaker, Hillman’s. An entertainment is announced for Friday, 24th inst., at the Theatre Royal, by Mr T. Muirhead, who is to be assisted by lady and gentlemen amateurs of Kumara. 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 Hruggists, 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