The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2675, 18 April 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1885.

The latest news wo have to-day concerning the Anglo - Russo - Afghan frontier question is that the belief in London is hourly increasing that there will be a peaceful settlement of the difficult}'. Acting under instructions from the Defence Department, Sergeant Russell has commenced obtaining the names of all males residing in this district, between the ages of seventeen and thirty, in view probably of a necessity arising for forming a New Zealand militia. Gentlemen whe have given in their names to join the School of Mines are requested to attend at the Town Hall on Monday evening next, at eight o’clock. At the monthly meeting of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, advices were received from the manufacturers of the shipment by the Ruapehu of the helmets for the KumaraFire Brigade. Letters were read and received from the Greymouth and Hokitika Fire Brigades accepting the invitation to a friendly competition sent by Kumara, eight men a-side. The following are the names of the team chosen to represent Kumara Lieut. Brayshaw, Foremen Smith and Anderson, Branchmen Schulstad and Close, Firemen Coutts, Hannah, M'Ewen, and Greenwood. Tickets for the Fire Brigade fancy dress ball, to be held on the 25th May, can now be procured from the officers and members of the Brigade.

At the Supreme Court, Hokitika, yesterday, William Harvey, alias Middleton, alias Johnston, remanded for sentence for stealing a horse and larceny, was, on account of previous convictions, sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Information has been received that Middleton, alias Harvey, placed a horse he had stolen and ridden from Nelson in the hands of Mr P. Brennan, auctioneer (of Reefton), and that that gentleman had sold the mare, together with a saddle and bridle, for £l4. Had Middleton been acquitted on the charge at Hokitika, he would have been at once arrested on a charge of stealing Mr Bogle’s mare. Tenders are invited by the Westland County Council for constructing a road from Passmore’s Farm to Hughes’ diggings, the construction of a road from Larrikins to the Loopline road, and for widening Humphrey’s Gully road. Plans and specifications for the first works can be seen in a few days at Mr Seddon’s. Tenders close on Tuesday, 12th May, at the Council Chambers, Hokitika. Messrs Girdwood, Lahman, and Co. will sell at the Preston Yards, Greymouth, on Monday next, prime bullocks, crossbred wethers, lambs, and pigs. 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 Truth and Soberness. —What is the best family medicine in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove costiveness and biliousness, aid digestion, and stimulate the whole system 1 Truth and soberness compels us to answer, American Co.’s Hop Bitters, being pure, perfect, and harmless. See