The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2690, 6 May 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1885.

The latest cablegram from London today is to the effect that the work of delimitating the Afghan frontier will be proceeded with in London, to aid in which Generals Lumsden and Stewart had been recalled from Afghanistan. There were eleven applications for the position of Surgeon-Superintendent to the Kumara Hospital. The names of the applicants appear in our report of the Hospital Committee meeting hist night. The committee reserved their final decision till Thursday, to which day the meeting was adjourned. The City of Sydney, with the English mails via San Francisco, arrived at Auckland at one o’clock yesterday morning two days after contract time. The Penguin, with the southern portion of the mails, left Onehuuga at 11 o’clock yesterday morning. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon at three o’clock,

An adjourned special meeting of the Borough Council for the purpose of certifying to the Burgess Roll was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon; present— His Worship the Mayor (H. Burger, Esq.), Councillors Fitzsimons, Ziegler, Davies, and Maloney. The Town Clerk read the Defaulters’ List, and laid the Burgess Roll on the table. The Burgess List was duly certified, and Councillors Maloney, Davies, and Ziegler appointed to sign the same. An inquest was held at the Sea View Asylum, Hokitika, yesterday, before J. Giles, Esq., Coroner, on the body of a patient named Thomas Williams, late of Kumara, and a verdict returned of death from serous apoplexy. Deceased was 42 years of age, and a native of Wales. Commander Edwin wired at 11.25 a.m. : “ Bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west; glass further fall, and heavy rain soon.” In a letter to the Grey River Argus the Rev. B. J. Westbrook, Presbytery Clerk, referring to the resignation of the Rev. Mr Hay, says—“ There is no edict read in preaching a charge vacant. The congregation is simply imfonned, after sermon, what the Presbytery has done, and that they are without a regular pastor. This I did in the afternoon in Stafford church, which is the oldest church in the parish, so that I carried out after all the instructions of the Presbytery.” The following tenders have been received for the Greymouth-Hokitika railway. Hokitika permanent way contract: J. M. Watson, Greymonth, £2295 (accepted). Declined—Mace and Bassett, Nelson, £2430; John Maher, Hokitika, £2678 ; T. J. Price, Hokitika, £3106; J. Scoular, Hokitika, £4024. Tenders are required on or before Monday next for the supply of firewood to the Kumara State School Committee. Particulars can be obtained from Mr A. C. Campbell, to whom the tenders are to be addressed.

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. Yan 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.