The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2614, 22 January 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885.

Reports from Waiwera state that Sir Julius Vogel is much improved in general health by his visit.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening. The telegraph line by way of Teheran is interrupted beyond Bushire.

The Press Association special cable messages relating to the movements of Lord Wolseley are now forwarded direct from head quarters of the army at Khorti, a special representative of the Melbourne Argus accompanying the expedition.

After his visit to Hokitika and Ross it is intended to entertain the Yen. Archdeacon Harper at a tea meeting at the Theatre Royal. This is fixed for Monday, the 9th February. Tea will be provided at half-past six o’clock, and, during the concert which is to follow, the Yen. Archdeacon will deliver an address.

A meeting of cricketers is announced to be held at Rugg’s Hotel on Saturday next, 24th inst., at 8.30 p.m., when important business will be considered. All cricketers are requested to attend.

By the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Royal Mail steamship Tongariri, from Lyttelton on Saturday last, the Bank of New Zealand shipped seventeen boxes of gold bullion, valued at £83,584. The export duty on the shipment amounted to £2078.

The following are the names of the Hokitika cricketing team, selected to play the Grey team at Greymouth on Saturday next: —Messrs Boddington, Bowen, W. Dale, Greville, Hansen, Lynch, Northcroft, MacCarthy, Oliver, Tennant, and J. Wilson. Emergency—Ambrose. Every member of the team, we observe, is requested to practice every day weather permitting, and to leave the Hokitika wharf for Greymouth at 2 a.m. on Saturday. Our southern friends will do well if they score a victory after the performance of these preliminaries.

Mr Rae writes to the West Coast Times stating that public feeling has been pretty freely expressed in reference to the wording of the advertisement in the Hokitika papers inviting a “social gathering of Scotch people ” to the Burns Anniversary in Hokitika. “If,” he says, “the anniversary of such a man is to be celebrated, let all who are capable of appreciating him have as full an opportunity of taking part in the matter as * Scotch people ’ of Hokitika.” “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,” and Burns’s great genius permating throughout almost everything that he wrote, makes him kin with all humanity. This is the view taken by the promoters of the Burns anniversary celebration in Kumar a. All the world is welcome here to honour the great Scottish poet. And Gilbert Stewart has prepared a special “Bill o’ Farin,” and invites people from all quarters to come next Monday and partake of “A wee Donal’ o’ Glenlivat at nine o’clock to gi’ ye an apetit ” at the banquet. The Ross correspondent of the West Coast Times reports that an ounce of gold was taken yesterday from the face at the turbine claim, Ross United, and that gold is quite visible in the face. In reference to the annexation of the Samoa Islands by Germany, the Thames Advertises publishes the following extract from a private letter from Mr George Spencer, who writes from Samoa on December 2nd:-“There has been great political excitement here, caused by the Germans trying to annex Samoa. I need hardly say that their attempt proved abortive. The Samoans collected from all parts of the islands and crowded into Apia, and told the Germans that they would rather die to a man than allow Germany to take Samoa. The feeling against the Germans is very bitter indeed. The King and chiefs have sent a petition to Great Britain praying for the English Government to annex Samoa, also one to the New Zealand Government to the same effect.”

The result of the Melbourne Cup was (according to the English time) known in London fully an hour before the race was run at Fleinington. Cablegrams announcing Malua’s victory, and dated “Melbourne, This Day,” appeared in the fourth editions (published at 2.30) of all the evening papers on Tuesday, 4th November. Melbourne time is 9 hours 40 minutes before London. The message would therefore take only about hours’ time in transmission.

At a meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company last Wednesday the report showed that after making provision for all ascertained losses to date, and carrying £24,000 to the reserve fund, which, with the re-insurance fund, now stands at £225,000, and paying an interim dividend of 3s per share in July last, there remains a balance of profit amounting to £22,089 2s 7d. It was agreed to pay a dividend of 3s per share, which absorbs £15,000, leaving £7089 2s 7d to be carried forward to next half-year. Ada Melmore’s programme on the Dunedin Cup is announced to close on the 24th February. Each ticket will have eight chances.

An Alabaster Box. —Young girls finding their complexion growing sallow, and their skin becoming rough and freckly, resort to perfumed ointments for a restoration of their bloom. All should use Hop Bitters, which will restore bloom to cheeks, whiteness and beauty to their complexion, making rich blood, good health, and happy smiles. Read Working Men. —Before you begin your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation your system needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent an attack of bilious or spring fever, or sickness, that will unfit you for a season’s work. You will save time, sickness, and expense if you will but use one bottle of Hop Bitters in your family this month. Don’t wait. Read.