The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2588, 8 October 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1884.

The Christchurch coach arrived early this afternoon. The friends of Mr Louis Lousich will i-egret to learn that after consulting all the leading oculists and surgeons of repute in Melbourne, they are unanimous in stating that nothing can be done to restore Lonsich's sight. Mr and Mrs Lousich now purpose going to Sydney, to try if anything can be done for hinx there.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, before J. O'Hagan and D. HannanEsqrs., J.Ps., John Stone was charged by the police with wilfully and obscenely exposing his person in a public street. He pleaded not guilty and that he did not know anything at all about it. He was convicted and sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour in Hokitika Gaol. James Miles, a miner, was admitted to the Hospital te-day, suffering from a fractured skull, occasioned during a squabble in a house of ill fame last Sunday week. Commander Edwin wired yesterday afternoon that bad weather is expected after fourteen hours from now from any direction between north-east to north and west; glass further rise, but will fall again with wind backing within ten hours. To-day, at 12.37 p.m., he telegraphed—- " Same as wired yesterday afternoon, twelve hours from now; glass will fall very soon." The Westland Education Subdivision Bill comes on for its second reading this evening. In the House Mr Seddon has moved—- " That there be laid before this House all correspondence (1) In connection with the removal of the Resident Magistrate and Warden's clerk from the Stafford and Goldsborough Courts; (2) The appointment of Receiver of Goldfields' Revenue at the Rimu rush." The motion was carried. Referring to the death of Walter Levett, the following letter appears in the Canterbury Times of the 4th inst. : " Sir—lt was with deep regret that we learned the sad tidings of the death of Walter Levett who was burned to death near Christchurch. I send the following notes so that any of his friends might identify him. Mr Walter Levett commenced business in Westport in the year 1867 as storekeeper, and was doing well for some years, but fate was against him. The township was washed away, and he, with many others, lost his business site, and had to put up another building elsewhere. Through this disaster he had to mortgage his new store with all the stock-in-trade. All his property was swallowed up by the mortgagee, which made him leave the place, and he went to Kumara, later on, going to Christchurch, and then to his death. He was a married man, but had lived alone since he resided in Westport. In person he was an honest, amiable man, with gentle manners.—l am, &c., Mrs Robert Stewart, Cobden, Greymouth." A number of people from Hokitika, Rimu, Greymouth, Brunnerton, and Kumara, went to Marsden yesterday to witness a cock-fighting match. "Although," the Argus says, "the affair was kept very private, there were too many privy to it to expect any secrecy, and a constable was sent out to prevent any exhibition of the kind. It is said that he was successful in that respect, as there was no main held, though, if report speaks true, there was no lack of enjoyment and jollification, a large gathering having asssembled. It may be mentioned that some very likely game birds disappeared from the neighborhood last week in a mysterious manner." Motueka is to have a newspaper of its own. It will belong to the proprietor of the Golden Bay Argus. The final game in the chess match between Messrs Hookham and Jacobsen was commenced on Friday last. The Christchurch Press says :—Extreme caution was displayed by both players, as when 32 moves had been made by each, only a pawn on oitlwr side had been removed. After about seven hours' play, in which 40 moves only had been made by each, play was discontinued for the night, only a pawn and a knight having been lost by each player. Both players are six games each, and this game will decide the match. The game will be resumed on Friday next. The new church of St. Augustine at Napier was consecrated last Thursday, 15 clergymen taking part in the ceremony. The Supreme Court of N.S. Wales the other day awarded £4OOO damages against the Railway Department for not having a lamp alight. The Ballarat Courier states that Ah Quong, a leper, has been cured of his disease by a local herbalist. 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 thirtyyears, 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. i