The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2672, 14 April 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1885.

Professor Black lectured again last night to a fair and attentive assemblage at the Theatre Royal, on the treatment of stone containing arsenic, pyrites, and antimony ; also on the manufacture and use of sodium in gold-saving operations, in the course of which he showed how sodium amalgam is made. The testing classes have been well attended, and now number 48. The members will assemble again from 7 to 9 this evening, at the Theatre Royal; after which Alex. Montgomery, Esq., M.A., will deliver a lecture on " Mineral Veins." Mr Montgomery, who has been accompanying Professor Black, is regarded as the most successful student that has appeared in New Zealand in the subjects of chemistry, geology, and mineralogy, and great things are expected of him in the direction of teaching these branches in the goldfields of the colony. The admission to the lecture will be free, and we hope to see a crowded house, at 9 p.m. Commander Edwin wired at 11.45 a.m. to-day : —"Bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west; glass further fall, and rain within ten hours." At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before H. Burger, Esq., J.P., William Newman was charged with being drunk and disorderly. He pleaded guilty; and was convicted and fined ss, and 2s costs of Court, or six hours' imprisonment. At the same Court House to-day, before A. C. Campbell, Esq., J.P., Jane Brou was charged under the Police Offences Act, 1884, section 20, with being drunk and with disorderly conduct in a public place. She pleaded guilty. Being known to the police as an old offender at Reefton, and recently out of Hokitika Gaol for vagrancy, a heavier fine was inflicted in this than in the previous case. Accused was fined £l, Court costs 2s, or 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour in Hokitika Gaol. The Miners' Ball and supper takes place next Friday week at the Theatre Royal, and from what we can learn promises to be well attended and as successful as last year ; at all events it will not be the fault of the committee of management if this is not the case, as every effort is being made with that object in view. There will be a meeting of the committee at Mr Geo. Watson's, at half-past six o'clock tomorrow evening, when all members are requested to attend. Beware of packages of injurious stuff purporting to make genuine Hop Bitters; also preparations and fluids said to contain all the properties of American Hop Bitters. They spring up on account of the great popularity of the genuine, which is only put up in large square-panel amber-colored bottles, with the names "Dr. Soule," and "Hop Bitters" blown in the glass, and is the best family medicine ever made. Read