The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2626, 5 February 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1885.

In reference to the visit of the Premier and Minister of Mines, his Worship the Mayor has handed us the following telegram from the Minister of Mines, dated Westport, February 5, 10.45 a.m. : " Thanks for your telegram. Leave here for Boatmans and Reefton to-day. Expect to leave latter place on Monday or Tuesday. Will wire you from Greymouth. —W. J. M. Laknach."

In order to correct a slight inaccuracy in the analysis of the recent Westland Scholarships Examination, we reprint our report of it on our fourth page. The Christchurch branch coach arrived last night at 9.30. The Fire Brigade team returned home by it (excepting Messrs Ziegler and Barnett), and were well received.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening, at 8 o'clock.

Business people and others who have to do with dates, and who may be confiding their daily memoranda to the pages of the "West Coast Almanac, Diary, and Year Book, for 1885," are cautioned against trusting too much to the accuracy or inaccuracy of the dates and spaces given for inserting memoranda in the almanac referred to. A copy of this otherwise useful publication lies before us, in which the following stupid blunders occur :—ln the Memoranda for the present month, pages 6 and 7, it will be seen the dates February 15 and 16 are omitted, but the days of the week follow on consecutively. The blunder is continued to the end of the month, and throughout March, April and May. Then between May and June the days Saturday and Sunday are omitted, and thus the days and dates tally again ; but all the dates, as we have pointed out, are wrong between the 14th February and the Ist June. Another stupid error occurs in the Memoranda for December, page 37, where the last day of the year is made to fall on a Monday instead of Thursday. This is the first occasion in our long connection with the noble art of printing that we remember to have seen the days and dates of a calendar wrong, and so issued for sale to the public.

Until further notice the mails overland to Christchurch will close at 10 p.m. on Mondays and Thursday. Commander Edwin wired at 12.56 p.m. to-day—"lndications of further rise in glass, with south-east and nor'-east wind."

Our country visitors are reminded that Woodyear's Circus will positively open in Kumara, in the Recreation Ground, tomorrow, Friday, and again on Saturday evenings. Since its last visit, the Troupe has been considerably augmented. There will be new appointments, new decorations, and new artistes. We observe a refreshment booth will be opened at the ground during the two evenings, which will be under the management of the Hospital Committee. At a meeting of the Dramatic Club last evening it was resolved to postpone the entertainment for the benefit of Mrs O'Grady for a week, that is, till Friday, the 13th inst.

A cablegram from Melbourne this afternoon states that the Rotomahana arrived there this morning from the Bluff. A general meeting of cricketers will be held at Rugg's Hotel next Saturday evening, on business of importance. We understand a challenge was recently received from Greymouth to play Kumara, but the latter having at the time an engagement to play Hokitika, the challenge from Greymouth has for the present been declined. The expense of entertaining visiting teams at banquets has hitherto been an obstacle to more frequent meetings of local players in friendly contests, and the Greymouth cricketers in consequence have very wisely made proposals for the discontinuance of the practice.

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. Bead