The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2712, 1 June 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1885.

The latest news to-day with regard to the Afghan frontier question is that the town of Maruchak and Zulfikar Pass will remain iu possession of Afghanistan. The work of the Commission appointed to examine the details of the new frontier line now only includes details in delimitating, the main points having already been fixed. The result of the negotiations seem to be that Russia will gain a strip of country from Afghanistan about 30 miles deep (or below the “Proposed Russo-Afghau Frontier ” as shown on our small “ Sketch Map, issued some weeks ago, showing the Disputed Frontier ”) and 100 broad, including the town of Penjdeh. The annual liconing meeting for the district of the Borough of Kumava was held at the Court House this morning ; present—J. O‘Hagan, Esq. (Chairman), H. Burger, J. Davies, and M. Maloney, Esqs., members of the Liceuing Committee. After a renewal of license had been granted to Mr J. S. Poaru, of. and for the Buck’s Head Hotel, Mr Hannan on behalf of a number of other hotelkeepers, applied for an adjournment for a fortnight; and the licensing meeting was adjourned accordingly to noon on Monday, the 15th June. Owing to the smallness of attendance at the State School to-day consequent on the prevalence of severe colds and coughs, only 140 children being present out of a total of 340 on the rolls, it was deemed advisable to close the school for a week and this was done at noon to-day. Commander Edwin wired at 1.38 p.m.: “Indications of strong winds between north-east and north and west, and further fall of glass. ” There being four candidates aspiring to the honor of Borough auditorship—or to the six-guinea stipend attached thereto—more than usual interest has been mani-

tested to-day about the precincts of the Town Hall, where the polling is taking place, than for any similar election before. At four o’clock 40 persons had recorded their votes for either Messrs John Hannah, T. A. Queale, L. J. Spyer, or W. Wiesner, candidates; two of whom will at about 6.30 p.m. be announced as elected. We were not cognisant at the time we wrote on Saturday concerning the lowness of the culvert on the south Main road of a ludicrous incident that had recently occurred there, corroborating, as it were, the testimony as to the unevenness of the culvert with the road. A gentleman who was sitting on the box alongside one of the mail coach drivers, got such a sudden jerk that he knocked his head against the back of the coach and simultaneously sprang from the vestibule beneath his moustache some pieces of ivory well wrought together. The coach was stopped, and the gentleman referred to alighted and made a search for the missing links, to]the great anxiety of the driver who had no time to spare to catch the tram with his mail, and the search had to be abandoned; but on afterwards hauling over the things on the top of the coach the missing links were found intact, much to the satisfaction of the owner—and the eventual relief, probably, of the Borough Council Public Works Committee. An accident is reported by the Argus to have happened at Nelson Creek on Saturday last by which a miner named Owen Driscoll was seriously injured. He was caught by the branches of a falling tree. He was brought down by train in the evening and taken to the hospital. Driscoll is a very old resident of the Grey Valley, and is pretty generally known amongst the mining community as the one after whom “ Owens Lookout ” was named. The following was the distribution of the prizes in the Robin Hood Consultation on the Birthday Handicap and Grand National; Robin Hood—first, £9OO, tent maker, Blenheim; second, £270, laborer, Ferry road ; third, £135, storeman, Dipton, Invercargill. Grand National first, £270, farmer, Selwyn; second, £135, clerk, Christchurch ; third, £67 10s, gardener, Porirua Ferry, Wellington. Special Unlimited on Grand National—first, £2OB, cordial manufacturer, Southbridge; second, £124 17s, hotel-keeper, Cashel street; third, £B3 ss, bricklayer, Addington. The number of shares sold was 13,280, being 5280 over the original issue, and 748 prizes were given instead of 220, being 528 extra at £5 each. A programme is now open on the Melbourne Grand National Steeplechase, and the Christchurch Waterloo Coursing Cup, to close about the middle of next month. The New South Wales Contingent is expected to return to Sydney on or about June 12th, when a grand parade of all the forces will be held. The strength of the New South Wales permanent force now amounts to a little over 450 men, and the total defence force, including reserves and all branches of the service, to something like 10,000 men. A port has been discovered in the Victoria River, Northern Australia, which is said to be superior to the ports of the Thames, the Mersey, or the Hoogly. It forms the natural port or outlet for 57,000,000 acres of pastoral country in the Northern Territory, and the Government Resident considers it may prove a formidable rival to Port Darwin. Here is a Queensland tragedy told in a telegram : —“ Man, name unknown, reported found dead at Caranbota station, Georgina River. Piece of paper found on the body, on which were written the words, ‘ Bitten by a snake.’ ” Of the Arabs, says an exchange, the British troops have slain 3000 at Teb, 2000 at Tamasi, 2000 at Abuklea, 1300 at Gubat, 1000 Kirkeham, and 3000 at the recent fights at and about Hashcen. Ten thousand British soldiers have been killed, wounded, and invalided, and the netresult is nil. We gaze on a sea of blood in which is sunk twenty millions of treasure. To whom this situation is eminently satisfactory, to Arabs, Egyptians, or to Englishmen, does not exactly appear. The English Freemasons, during the eleven years His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been at their head, have subscribed more than £350,000 to the three Masonic charitable institutions alone. In Steinerwald’s Hotel, Reading, Pa., on March 7th, several hundred persons assembled to witness a match at liverpudding eating for 20 dols. and a keg of beer between Joseph Marquet and Henry Smith. Smith was out of condition and failed to appear. Marquet was very hungry, after his preparatory breakfast. When time was called it was found that in an hour and a-half he had devoured

four and a half pounds of pudding, ten large glasses of beer, five large glasses of water, three glasses of whisky, a bottle of vinegar, a bottle of capsup, and a large loaf of bread. He is about thirty years of age, and a laborer by occupation. A Wise Deacon.—“ Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and family so well the past season, when all the rest of us have been sick so much, and have had the doctors running to us so often?” “Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitters in time, and kept my family well, and saved large doctors’ bills. Four shillings’ worth of it kept us all well and able to work all the time, and I will warrant it has cost you and most of the neighbours £lO to £IOO apiece to keep sick the same time. I fancy you’ll take' my medicine hereafter.” See We believe that if every one would use American Co.’s Hop Bitters freely there would be much less sickness and misery in the world, and people are fast finding this out, whole families keeping well at a trifling cost by its use. We advise all to try it. Read.