The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2553, 8 November 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1884.

Monday being the day appointed for the celebration of the Prince of Wales’ Birthday (9th November) the usual holiday will be observed at the Post and Telegraph Stations and other public offices, and by the Banks, which will be all closed during the day. There will be no publication of the Kumara Times on Monday. There will be a Review at Greymouth, in which the Volunteers of Kumara and Hokitika, as well as Greymouth, will take part. All the Volunteer Companies in the district intend meeting together at Greymouth on Monday next, in honor of the Prince of Wales’ Birthday. The First Westland Rifles leave Hokitika by steamer to-morrow afternoon for Greymouth. The Kumara Rifles will parade at the Tramway Station, Kumara, at half-past 5 o’clock on Monday morning, and then proceed to Greymouth. There will be a church parade on Sunday evening at Greymouth, and a representative firing match on Monday morning—five men from each company. The companies will parade at ten o’clock for inspection and drill, and will proceed by train to the racecourse. Arrangements have been made for sports in the afternoon, in the form of racing, jumping, tug of war, &c. ; also a band contest between the bands of each company. We are indebted to Mr Richardson Rae for the following telegraphic message, received at three o’clock this afternoon : “ Mr Seddon has just wired to say that the Conference of the Upper and Lower Houses have agreed that Westland is to have an Education Board. The Grey district is to be managed as at present. Of the members of the Westland Board four are to be elected by the School Committees and three nominated by the Government. It has been a long and hard struggle, but justice and rights have prevailed at last.” The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon at the usual hour. We acknowledge receipt from the Government Printer of parliamentary reports, including the Public Works Statement, Report on Surveys, &c. Also, from the member for the district, of a copy of Mr Gordon’s Report on the Kumara Sludge-Channel and Water-Race. We have received from the Greymouth agent a copy of the Union Steamship Company’s Pocket Guide for November. We are indebted to Mr Pyke, the Chairman of the Goldfields Committee, for a copy (by telegraph) of the Goldfields and Miners Committee’s General Report to Parliament which appears in another column. The nomination of candidates for the Hohonu Riding, Grey County Council, takes place at the Court House, Greenstone, at noon on Monday next. Messrs Foley and Nicholas are the reported candidates. Messrs Byrne and Hannan will address the County electors at the Aclelphi Theatre this evening ; Mr Byrne at 8 o’clock, Mr Hannan at 9. Mr J. M‘Whirter will address the electhe electors at the Empire Hotel, Dillman’s, on Monday next, at 8 p.m. A requisition to his Worship the Mayor appears in our advertising columns. The Melbourne Cup, two miles, was run this year in 3min. 31|secs. Martini Henry’s time last year was 3.30|; Darriwell’s, in 1879. 3.30-J. These are the three fastest times for the Melbourne Cup. A miner named Michael Donovan, long and favourably known in the southern districts, died suddenly on Sunday morning last at Lake Mapourika. He leaves a wife and eight or nine young children who are badly provided for. Messrs C. Ludwig and Sons are offering to-night some choice jewellery and watches at Gilbert Stewart’s Hotel. A quadrille assembly will be held at the Theatre Royal this evening, at 8 o’clock. At the cattle sale yards at Arahura on Monday next, Messrs Girdwood, Lahman and Co. will sell 40 head choice bullocks, and 100 wethers. It is Worth a Trial.—“l was troubled for many years with kidney complaint, gravel, &c., my blood became thin, I was dull and inactive, could hardly crawl about, and was an old worn-out man all over, and could get nothing to help me until I got Hop Bitters, and now

my blood and kidneys are all right, and I am as active as a man of thirty, although I am seventy-two, and I have no doubt it will do as well for others of my age. It is worth the trial.”—(Father.) Notice Not a Beverage.—“ They are not a beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drugs. They do not tear down an already debilitated system, but build it up. One bottle contains more real hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer. Physicians prescribe them.” Rochester Evening Express, on Hop Bitters. Read