The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2691, 7 May 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1885.

It is satisfactory to learn, by cablegram this afternoon, that the Commission appointed by the French Government to select the locality to which French criminals are to be deported have decided that they shall be sent to Cayenne only. Cayenne is a fortified seaport, capital of French Guiana, on the eastern shore of. South America. Cayenne is on the west point of an island of the same name at the mouth of the river Oyak. The roadstead is excellent, and the port commodious, but shallow, Cayenne, though it is the entrepot of all the trade of the colony, is chiefly already known as a great French penal settlement. The island, 32 miles in circumference, is separated from the mainland by a narrow channel ; its soil is fertile, but the climate is extremely unwholesome for Europeans, large numbers of the convicts having been carried off by various malignant fevers. Cayenne became a French colony about 1635; deportation thither began during the first French Revolution. The present population is about 9000.

The adjourned meeting of the Hospital Committee for the consideration of applications for the office of Surgeon-Superin-tendent will be held in the Town Hall this evening, at eight o’clock. All members are particularly requested to attend, as important business will be brought forward.

There was a meeting of the School of Mines at the Town Hall on Monday evening last. Mr H. Griffiths presided. Votes of thanks were passed to Professor Black for his assistance and courtesy to the Kumara School of Mines, and to the Borough Council for granting a portion of the Town Hall for the* School purposes. It was resolved that the regular meetings take place at 7.30 p.m. on Mondays. The appointment of officers was deferred till next meeting. Messrs W. Morris, Hewett, and Griffiths were appointed to act in conj notion with the Town Hall Committee in arranging for the erection of shelves and the storage of chemicals. The Kumara quadrille assembly will meet at the Adelphi Theatre to-morrow evening. Dancing to commence at eight o’clock.

In consequence of relinquishing business in Kumara, the freehold section, and stock-in-trade of drapery, clothing, &c., of Messrs J. Manson and Co. is to be submitted to auction on Saturday next, the sale commencing at 12 noon. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the under-mentioned promotions and appointments in the New Zealand Militia: —Major Albert Pitt, New Zealand Volunteers, to be be Lieu-tenant-Colonel ; Captain William Holden Webb to be Major, from 21st April, 1885.

The following is a comparative return of the value of gold entered for duty for exportation from New Zealand for the quarters ended 31st March, 1885, and 31st March, 1884:

Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880.” in favour of the undermentioned persons : Angelo Senini miner, Goldsborough ; Frederick Peter Theoeor Heise, labourer, Westport; Carl Wilhelm Johannes Haack, labourer Westport ; Herman Geisler, miner Black’s Point, Reefton ; Christian Peter Nielson, miner, Hokitika.

One Mr Gorman, a vinter, of Dublin has died worth £120,000, made by selling whisky. Before he died he said, “Irishmen have beggared and ruined themselves by giving me what they should have given to their wives and children. I shall make restitution to the destitute widows and So he bequeathed £50,000 to the charities of Dublin.

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, 5 and their American Bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world,

1885. 1884. £ £ Auckland ... ... 26,441 26,778 Wellington .. '380 Nelson 3,735 3,338 West Uoast ... 125,887 109,762 Otago ... 99,152 109,311 Totals £255,215 £249,579