Ik Jluinani Cintfs. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2664, 21 March 1885, Page 2

Ik Jluinani Cintfs. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1885.

By a late cablegram this afternoon it will be seen that the British force which marched out from Suakim yesterday

morning came up with the rebels under Osman Digna. Severe fighting ensued, resulting in the complete defeat of the Arabs, with heavy loss in killed and wounded. His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand left Sydney on Thursday, in the Union Company's steamer Manapouri, for Auckland. He is expected to arrive at Manakau harbour on Tuesday, whither the Hinemoa is gone for the purpose of bringing Sir William to Wellington. Commander Edwin wired yesterday at 4 p.m.—"lndications of glass falling, and strong winds between north-east and north and west." And to-day, at 11.50 a.m.—"Bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west, after ten hours ; and further fall of glass, and rain." The number and variety of the tourists this season are becoming puzzling to our youngsters. A couple of Christchurch residents were on a visit to Dillman's Town to-day whose appearance in the magnificent thoroughfare of that great gold emporium created some wonderment. "Is there going to be a play 'ere, Jack ?" was the remark of one of the small boys. Not flattering to the distinguished visitors; but very suggestive of the current of the rising generation's thoughts. The New Zealand Times says that there is no foundation at all for the rumor that Mrßlackettis about to retire from the office of Engineer-in-Chief of the colony. As to the other change in the Public Works Department, which was also rumoured, namely, in the position of Under-Secretary, we find that the only foundation for that rumour is that the Under-Secretary is going on a short leave of absence, and that Mr Mackay, an officer who has filled several positions of trust in the department during many years, has been deputed to carry on the work till he returns. A recent cable to the Age says it is probable that the War Department will purchase 25,000 carcasses of New Zealand frozen sheep, te be delivered at Suakim in lots as required for the use of the troops. China has begun the continuation of of the Great Wall along the coast from its present termination at Shan-hai-Kwan to the Taku forts in order to keep out foreigners. The distance is over 200 miles. The payment of the stakes won at the St. Patrick's meeting of the Greymouth Jockey Club took place at the Albion Hotel, Greymouth, last evening. The following were the amounts paid to the winners :—Mr M'Gaffin, £190; Mr F. N. Jones, £BS ; Mr W. Thurogood, £55 ; Mr S. Emmerson, £55 ; Mr Matthews, .£SO ; Mr G. H. Russell, £2O ; Mr J. P. Kilgour, £s.—Total, £450 ; the lapse of the hurdle race having reduced the original amount of £SOO to the above figures. The Nelson Mail states that Mr R. C. Reid, formerly proprietor of the West Coast Times, and at one time member of the House for Westland, has joined the staff of the Anglo-New Zealander (published in London), and after making a canvas of the colony will proceed to London. The success of the paper is said to be assured, and it will shortly be published weekly. Messrs Girdwood, Lahman and Co. will sell by auction, at the Preston Yards, Greymouth, on Monday next, a lot of good seasonable bullocks and local grazed cattle, cross-bred sheep and nice lambs, and fat and store pigs. The Rev. C. Jukes, of Madagascar, at a recent public meeting in England, stated CO years ago there was no one in the island who could read, and now there were 800,000 who could read, and most of them possessed some portion of the Bible. Four thousand Irish were out of work in London on February 3, and fully onethird have been discharged since the recent explosion. The London weekly papers say Lord Garmoyle and Miss Fortescue will marry, notwithstanding the lawsuit. The New York Herald will, it is reported, soon be published simultaneously in all the capitals of Europe and in New Jersey. Mr P. J. Smyth, the late Member for Tipperary, died on the 12th January. It was he who, on July 20, 1853, succeeded in effecting the escape of the notorious John Mitchel, who was detained in Tasmania as a political prisoner for being concerned in the Irish rising of 1848. A Melbourne Chinese merchant has celebrated his silver wedding. The lady is Irish. Sxkaxge Insurboruination.—Who has not yet experienced a sort of malady when all the faculties seem in rebellion, and labor is absolutely impossible 1 It is a condition of nerves and stomach and brain which can only be cured by that irresistible remedy American Co.'s Hop I Bitters. Read.

Don't Starve !—Vance Klaus Hasselaer will sell on Saturday night next, a large and assorted stock of groceries, consisting flour, rice, and oatmeal, tin fish of every sort, pickles, sauces, tea, sugar, coffee, spices, blue, starch, household soap, blue mottled soap, brown Windsor soap, and glycerine bar soap, kerosene, matches, and several other various lots.—[Advt.] Skill in the Workshop.—To do good work the mechanic must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled his hand or dimmed his sight, let him at once, and before some organic trouble appears take plenty of Dr. Soule's Hop Bitters. His system will be rejuvenated, his nerves strengthened, his sight become clear, and the whole constitution be built up to a higher working condition. Read