The KUmara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2755, 21 July 1885, Page 2

The KUmara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1885.

The Westland portion of the English mail by the Royal Mail steamship Ruapehu, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Sunday, will reach here to-morrow afternoon, by the Christchurch coach. We acknowledge receipt of No. 7 Hansard. The Faust Family gave their final performance in Hokitika last evening. They perform in Stafford 1 Town to-night, at Goldsborough to-morrow, and in Kumara, for the last time, on Thurday night next. The Dillman's Town quadrille assembly will be held at the Empire Rooms tomorrow evening, at eight o'clock. After less preliminary talk than usual in. such affairs (the Times reports), Matthews, the champion boxer of New Zealand, and O'Neil, of Ross, who bears the reputation of being our best local man, have arranged to box in the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre on Saturday, for £2O a-side and the championship. The

terms are, Marquis of Queensberry rules, and to finish. A capital encounter is anticipated. Appended to the statement of the Minister for Mines will be a return showing the gold duty and goldfields revenue collected and paid to counties, and the number of miners employed in each mining district within the limits of the several counties during the year ended March 31. The number of miners is given at 2084. The gold raised was 225,8700z5.; the gold duty £27,587 ; and the goldfields revenue, £1.4,327. In the Grey and Westland districts the largest number of miners are employed. The Hon. Mr Larnach's statement is now in print and he will deliver it as soon as the opportunity arises. At Dunedin recently a mining appeal case, stated by the Resident Magistrate at Invercargill, came before Judge Williams. The case was Turnbull and others v. Jones. The plaintiffs owned a waterrace, a portion of which went through a section subsequently bought by the defendant. When the place was proclaimed a. village settlement, the defendant diverted the race and built a house, and the question was whether the proclamation prevailed over the prior rights of plaintiffs, and whether the Warden had justification to remove the defendant's house. His Honor decided that the proclamation did not prevail, and gave judgment for plaintiffs, with £lO 10s. Messrs Price and Clarke, the well known contractors, have been offered a small extra work, a branch line, by the Westport Harbour Board, in addition to the large contract they are engaged upon. The Wellington Post says :—" William Waring Taylor left Wellington for Hokitika in custody of Mr Oleary, the Governor of the Hokitika Gaol, who came to Wellington for the purpose of taking charge of the prisoner. It is intended that he shall serve his sentence, which, if he behaves well, will only extend for three years and two months, in the Hokitika Gaol. In his convict garb, and with close cropped hair, beard and moustache, Taylor was scarcely recognisable. In the course of an illegitimacy case at New Plymouth the other day the midwife kept the Court pretty well amused by the droll way in which she gave her evidence. Everybody present fairly shook with laughter when this estimable person having been asked how she could tell that the defendant was father of the child, replied : " I saw it two months afterwards : it had thriven wonderful, and it exactly resembles Mr (the defendant). It's the dead spit of him—as if it had been cut off with a knife and fork. If I had the baby here, I could compare it." And the infant was duly produced in Court, but the report does not give the midwife's comparison. Of course the verdict was given against the defendant. The 125 yards foot race, for £IOO a side, between H. M. Johnson, of New York, and George Smith, of Pittsburg, Pa., was decided at Chester Park, Cincinnatti, lately. Johnson is reported to have won by 6 feet in 11 3-5 th seconds, which is nearly a second better than the best on record in the world. Peate, the finest bowler in England when the ground is anyway soft, has begun the season well. In a match in Leeds he took seven wickets for eight runs. One of the batsman against him was Hall, the Yorkshire stonewaller. Important Notice. —Mr Von Don Fidegron begs to thank the people of Kumara and surrounding district for their support siuce his arrival, and wishes to notify that he has received a fresh consignment of "Boots from the manufacturers, which will be sold at very low prices. For example :—Ladies' Prunellas, 8s per pair ; Men's Balmorals, from 12s Gd ; Ladies' best Kid Boots, 12s 6d ; Ladies' high-legged calf-laced, lis; Gents, elastic side Boots, best quality, 15s ; Children's and Maids' Kid Boots in great variety. Also, a ton of Woods' superfine flour. The sale will last only a few days. Note the address, Main road, Kumara. Wicked for Clebgymen—"l believe it to be all wrong and even wicked for clergymen or other public men to be led into giving testimonials to quack doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but when a really meritorious article is made up of common valuable remedies known to all, and that all physicians use and trust in daily, we should freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily commend Hop Bitters for the good they have done me and my friends, hrmly believing they have no equal for family use. I will not be without them."- —Rev. —, Washington, D. C 17. S. A. The Greatest Blessing.—A simple, yiure, harmless remedy that cures every time, and prevents disease by keeping the blood pure, stomach regular, kidneys and liver active, is the greatest blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop Bitters is that reined}', and the American Co., the genuine manufacturers, are being blessed by thousands who have been cured by it. Try it. See.