The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2580, 11 December 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1884.

The election of three directors to serve as members of the Board constituted under " The New Zealand Government Insurance Association Act, 1884," will be held at Wellington, on the 7th of January next. The form for the nomination of candidates can be obtained at the Post-office, Kumara. Particular attention is called in the advertisement in another column notifying the same to certain extracts from the new Act as to the qualifications for the office of director, and also to persons entitled to vote. Geo. Fisher, Esq., M.H.R. and Mayor of Wellington, announces himself as a candidate for office. As the Board will meet weekly in Wellington, it is very desirable that the members to be elected should be residents of Wellington, and, so far as we know, only Wellington persons are candidates. Mr Fisher has just been elected Mayor of Wellington for the fourth time, and is one of the most eligible candidates we know of.

If Kumara is behindhand this year in organising sports for the Christmas holidays, the Committee appointed at the public meeting on Tuesday evening, may be complimented on having shown a great amount of zeal in the matter, and they are rapidly making up for lost time. Yesterday—in one day—sufficient money was collected to give as large an amount in prizes as was given last year, and before midnight a complete programme of sports was in the bands of the printer. This will be found published elsewhere, and tho larger type programmes will be issued to-morrow or Saturday. The big handicap foot race will, as usual, form a prominent feature of the sports.

The captain and mate of the yacht Mignonette, upon whom sentence of death was passed on Tuesday for the murder of the boy Parker, at sea, have been respited.

A London special to the Melbourne Age, dated the 27th uli, states that it is rumored that Sir William Drummond Jervois (Governor of New Zealand) is shortly to replace Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New Sonth Wales.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. The usual sittings of the R.M. and Warden's Courts will be held at the Court House to-morrow morning, when Dr. Giles will resune his seat on the Bench.

Yesterday the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hokitika, received the following telegram from the Under-Secretary of Crown Lands at Wellington :—" Withdraw from sale or lease all Crown Lands in Westland situated north of a line due east, from the mouth of the Hokitika river, pending the construction of the East and West Coast railway.

Twenty auxiliaries are wanted to take part in the " Green Bushes," to be played at the Adelphi Theatre on New Year's night, for the support of the Literary

Institute. Application must be made to Mr H. Hope, at half-past seven o'clock in the evening of that day, at the Adelphi Theatre. Commander Edwin wired an "urgent" at 12.46 this morning:—"Bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west after 12 hours from now ; glass will fall again within that time ; indications of rain." We have received from Messrs Smith and Barkley, drapers, silk mercers, clothiers, &c, Greymouth, their neat Calendar for 1885. The subject is "The Wanderer's Return " home on Christmas Eve.

The Rev. F. R. Seaborn, Government Lecturer will deliver one of his interesting discourses on Life Assurance in the Public Hall, Dillman's Town, to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock.

The Japanese Troupe, after drawing crowded houses in Hokitika, will reappear in Kumara for positively the last time on Saturday night next. Tenders for the privilege of keeping two booths for the sale of liquors, and one stall for the sale of fruit, confectionery, tea and coffee, on the Recreation Ground during the Christmas sports, will be received by the Chairman of the Sports Committee (J. S. Pearn, Esq.) up to 7 p.m. on Monday next, the 15th inst. Persons desirous of carrying on games must make written application to the Chairman on or before the 24th inst., and state the amount they are willing to pay for the privilege. The cargo of coal taken by the s.s. Herald from Greymouth yesterday (the Argus states) was a surprise to everyone. She took away the greatest quantity ever taken away from here by any vessel, not even excepting the s.s. Omapere. The Herald had 12 tons still on board when she commenced to load, and as 663 tons were put on board of her alongside the wharf, that gave her a total of 675 tons, which is at least 15 tons more than the Omapere's largest cargo. It is understood that the Collector of Customs at Greymouth has withdrawn the eight charges pending against Malachi Taylor, for breaches of the Beer Duty Act, and the cask of beer now in the transt-shed will be restored to him.

The members of the Greymouth Harbor Board are gazetted, but as Mr R. J. Seddon telegraphed to the Goverrment that he would prefer to be relieved of the appointment, his name does not appear amongst the list of members.

A grand free opening ball will be held at the Republic Hotel to-morrow evening, at nine o'clock.

Never Return.—lt is said that one out of every four real invalids who go to foreign countries to recover health never return, except as a corpse. The undertakers, next to the hotel-keepers, have the most profitable business. The excessive mortality may be prevented and patients saved and cured under the care of friends and loved ones at home, if they will but use Hop Bitters in time. Read