The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2767, 4 August 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1885.

The proposal to establish on the West Coast a home for destitute old men, having emanated from the Borough Council of Kumara, we give elsewhere the full report from Hansard of the debate on the question. Late cablegrams announce a rumour that Osman Digna is dead.—The Melbourne Omnibus drivers strike still continues.

Louis Riel, the half-breed Saskatchewan insurgent, and leader of the late rebellion in that country, has been condemned to be hanged. The jury recommended him to mercy, on account of the weak state of his mind. Medical experts pronounced him to be insane.

The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held at the Town Hall this evening, at eight o'clock. The Hon. J. A. Bonar, M.L.C., returned home to Hokitika yesterday, from Wellington, having obtained leave of absence.

Mr Carl Yortt and family left Dillman's Town to-day for Brunnerton. They will reside, we understand, at the new township of Dobson. His property in Dillman's was sold very cheaply ; the house and store to Mr John Gray, for £4B ; and the blacksmith's shop and cottage to Mr M'Grath for £2l.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before A. C. Campbell, Esq., J.P., George Bentley and Henry Clifford were both charged with being drunk and disorderly in Seddon street, and convicted and fined each os and 2s Court costs, in default six hours' imprisonment, with labour.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Greymouth, yesterday morning, before Major Keddell, Robert Carlyle was charged with attempting to steal from the premises of Hugh Barnhill, Dunganville, 20s in money. Prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for the space of one calendar month in the Hokitika Gaol ; to which place he went down by this afternoon's coach.

Commander Edwin wired at 12.50 p.m. to-day— " Every indication glass further rise, and very hard frost to-night." The Dillman's Town quadrille assembly will be held at the Empire Rooms tomorrow evening, at eight o'clock.

The Greymouth Star says " It is understood the Hokitika Star has been purchased by Messrs Bonar, Wade, Curie and others. Mr Curie of the Guardian, will conduct the papei\" By an Order in Council, dated 28th Jul}*, burials within the Old Cemetery at Ross, which is within the borough, arc to be wholly discontinued from and after the Ist day of February, ISBG, and the Cemetery then closed. During the Wellington Exhibition, till the 20th October, the Union Steamship Company have resolved to issue special return tickets at single fares, available for 28 days, but the holders of these tickets cannot break their journey en route.

"Puff," a satirical contributor to the Evening Press of Wellington, is satirically sententious at Mr Stratford's expense. Thus :—"Stratford, R.M., Wairarapa, complains that the bobbies don't salute him ! He ought to be called Stratford M.G. ! Why? What's M.G. 1 Man with a grievance ! Stratford has always had a grievance against some one wherever he has been stationed 1 Thought he'd grown wiser by this time !" The number of subscribers to the Nelson Telephone Exchange has now reached fifty. It was thought a long time would elapse before fifty subscribers would be obtained. One of the latest additions is the Nelson Club. Good Resolutions.—At the commencement of every new year hundreds and thousands of our young men—and old as well—form resolutions for their guidance for the coming year. Many keep them, while others break them. To such we wish to give a word of advice. In order to sustain your determination of leading a better life in future you should use Hop Bitters. The judicious use of Hop Bitters strengthens, cleanses, and purifies the stomach, bowels, blood, liver, nerves, and kidneys, and is just what you want to build up and invigorate yourself.—Greenbush, U.S.A., Dem. Read. The Tidy Housewife.—The careful, tidy housewife, when giving her house its spring cleaning, should bear in mind that the dear inmates are more precious than houses, their systems need cleansing by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels, and she should know that there is nothing that will do it so surely as American Co. 's Hop Bitters, the purest and best of all medicines.