The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2677, 21 April 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1885.

Up to four o'clock this afternoon only nine burgesses had recorded their votes at the Town Hall as to whether the number of publicans' wine or bottle or accommodation licenses within the borough may or may not be increased, in terms of the Local Option Act. The poll closes at 6 p.m. The coach from Hokitika to the Bealey for Christchurch passed through here this morning for the first time for some months, the repairs to the Arahura bridge having been effected. The coach was an hour behind its former time of arrival from Hokitika, yet no intimation is vouchsafed by the proprietors, Messrs Cassidy, Binnie and Co., to travellers and the public as to the cause of delay, which was not the result of accident or unforeseen circumstances. There will be a meeting of the Benevolent Society in the Town Hall this evening, at half-past seven o'clock. The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held at the Town Hall this evening, at 8 o'clock ; and the Fete Committee will meet afterwards. There will be a meeting of the Miners Ball Committee at Dillman's this evening, at eight o'clock. In the advertisement of the Westland County Council, calling for tenders, a correction has been made in the No. 1 tender, which now reads as follows: " Track from Kumara Beach road towards Passmore's farm, Teremakau." Tenders for this aud other works close on Tuesday, 12th May. No eligible tender having been received for painting the Kumara State School buildings, fresh tenders are required and may be sent into the Education Board Office, Hokitika, before to-morrow evening. Several properties are in the market for sale. One is the desirable residence in Main street in the possession of Mr John Miller, which has a well-cultivated garden of half an acre attached to it. The other are the various properties of Mr Yortt, late of Dillman's Town, and include house, store, blacksmith's shop, cottage, garden, and fruit trees, &c. The Auckland Hospital has excited attention for some time past on account of disturbances which may be shortly epitomized. A patient named Smith, described as very clever by one committeeman and very fast by another, appears to have been alone, out of over a hundred patients who took a dislike to the resident surgeon, and by a coincidence the feeling was shared with the lion, medical officer who attended that patient. A diary or journal of complaints and charges against Dr. Bond was suddenly exploded after nine months. An investigation took place when they were unsubstantiated, but personal feeling on the part of some of the committee caused them to make the charges, without proofs, sufficient reason for requesting Dr. Bond to resign. The rest of the honorary staff then appeared on the scene and stoutly protested against such an arbitrary act of injustice; and we are under the impression that the question of resignation or no resignation is a matter yet to be settled by the Government. In the mean time there was the patient Smith and his honorary medical adviser to be dealt with. The latter dealt with himself by resigning, and the former dealt with Dr. Bond by bringing an action for mistreatment and cruelty. The action has terminated in a verdict for Dr. Bond and clever fat Mr Smith will be reduced, in purse at least, by having to pay all costs.

By a Gazette just received: we learn that Henry Alborough Stratford, Esq., R.M., is appointed Resident Magistrate for the District of Wairarapa, with extended jurisdiction to £IOO, and also to be Sheriff for the District of Wairarapa, vice H. S. Wardell, Esq., R.M., transferred. The Dillman's Town quadrille assembly will be held at the Empire Rooms tomorrow evening, at eight o'clock. John Maloney, whose name has become somewhat notorious of late in connection with the Hughes, Rutherglen, fire and insurance affairs, was on Saturday last, at Greymouth, examined as to his mental condition and pronounced to be insane, and was on Sunday sent to the Lunatic Asylum, Hokitika. We are again in receipt of names and addresses of the principal winners in Robin Hood's Great Autumn programme, also the names of the chairmen of the respective committees who undertook the drawing, at which over 60 shareholders attended from various parts of New Zealand, whilst the Press had representatives even from Otago. The fact of such big moneys being distributed and the number of shares sold (12,000 in five weeks, and 1425 special in two days) is very significant that, as the present programme advertised in our columns says "Nothing succeeds like success." 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