The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2625, 4 February 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1885.

At the ordinary meeting of the Hospital Committee at the Town Hall last evening, it was resolved, by a majority of *1 to 2, !t That Dr. Monckton be requested to send in his resignation by next meeting.” Our full report of the meeting is unavoidably held over.

Woodyear’s Circus opened last night to an immense concourse of people in Ross. They will appear at Hokitika this evening and to-morroAv; and on Friday and Saturday, as advertised, will perform in the Recreation Ground, Kumara.

The annual Easter fete will be held as usual for the benefit of the Hospital; and in connection therewith, the committee will have a refreshment booth on the Recreation Ground during the visit of Woodyear’s Circus. The proceeds of the same will be devoted to the purpose of prizes at the Easter sports.

Commander Edwin wired at 11.13 p.m, to-day that—“ Bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west; glass further rise, but fall again within 12 hours.”

Cassidy, Binnie and Co.’s coach from Springfield, for what reason we are unable to learn, did not leave the Bealey this morning till 9.36, about five hours after the usual time. It will therefore not arrive in time to meet the tram to Greymouth. In consequence of the damage done by the late flood to the Arahura bridge at the lower crossing, it has been arranged that the coach shall run along the old Christchurch road, via Kawhaka and Hungerford bridge, and and vice versa ; and the horses stabled at the Queen’s Hotel are changed for the time being to Haylock’s Kawhaka Hotel. The Hokitika and Kumara Fire Brigade teams are passengers by the coach to-day. The latter will arrive here at about seven or eight o’clock this evening.

By an advertisement appearing in another column of this day’s issue, it will be seen that a grand bazaar will be held at St. Patrick’s time, in aid of the Catholic church funds. The ladies interested therein have already taken the matter very warmly to heart, and we have not the slightest doubt, with the kind assistance and patronage of the public, that the bazaar will prove a great success. We learn from our Hokitika morning contemporary that it is proposed that preresentatives from the Hokitika and Kumara Fire Brigades shall meet shortly in friendly competition at Kumara.

Major-General Scratchley will shortly visit New Zealand to interview the Govern-

ment about matters connected with his new appointment. The editor of the Hokitika Guardian has been borrowing from other people’s brains wholesale for its editorial columns again. The West Coast Times this morning thus alludes to the piracy :—” Yesterday one of our evening contemporaries purloined and printed as his own an article on The Police and Suday Trading which appeared in the Wellington Post of January 22.” The Auckland Free Press News says:— ” All Temperance reformers will aead with joy of the arrival of Mrs Lovett, a Temperance lady lecturer from America. Mrs Lovett is to open a women’s crusade all over New Zealand against the liquor traffic. ’ She has testimonials from many of the most eminent preachers. Mrs Burnett, another Temperance lecturer who is at present on a visit to Tasmania, will shortly arrive for the same purpose.” The Life of an M.P.—An M.P., deploring the evil effects of London habits on the health, said that were it not for the Hop Bitters he could not live through with the irregular hours he was forced to keep. Said he : “As soon as I feel weak and exhausted from long night sessions and meals at irregular hours, I resort to my Hop Bitters instead of stimulants. They regulate my towels and keep my appetite good, my brain clear, and my strength and health are preserved.” See

Alcoholic Fatuity.—The chronic debauchee feels that he positively cannot exist without his alcoholic stimulaton. To quit drinking or to continue the habit brings death all the same. Such a man can find in Hop Bitters, properly used, a perfect panacea for the drunkard’s cure. Read