The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2686, 1 May 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1885.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council was adjourned last evening till this evening at 8 o’clock. The local option poll at Greymouth was taken on Wednesday last, when 161 ratepayers voted. A majority of 40 were in favour of granting more publicans’ licenses, a majority of 26 in favour of more wine licenses, a majority of 32 in favour of more accommodation licenses, and a majority of five in favour of issuing more bottle licenses. At Brunnerton yesterday the polling was strongly in favour of granting licenses to new houses. The polling in respect to publicans’ licenses, was 42 for, 37 against, and two informal. The ratepayers were strongly in favour of accommodation licenses, but decidedly opposed to granting bottle licenses, in respect to which the polling was 14 for, and 37 against. The demand for the great American remedy, Hop Bitters, in this part of the world has become so great that the Hop Bittsrs Co., whose head-quarters are at Rochester, New York, U. S. A., have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr M. H. Van Bergh, a gentleman of several years’ experience with this Company, and the trade may be assured of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and the most courteous treatment. The H. B. Co. have establishments at London, Paris, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland and Toronto, and their American Bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world.