The Kumara Time. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2793, 3 September 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Time. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885.

Specifications for working a ferry at the special settlement, Teremakau River, can be seen at Mr P, Dungan’s residence, Tui street. There is no available ferry reserve near this settlement. Tenders for working the ferry for one year (renewable, if agreed on, from year to year) are to be sent to the County Council Chambers by 5 p.m. on Tuesday next. In reference to this ferry it will be seen by the report of the proceedings at the meeting of the Grey County Council on Tuesday last, that but for Cr. Foley reopening the question, the letter from the County Council of Westland proposing that the Grey County should bear half the cost would have been ignored. We fail to see how, as Or. Warren would have us believe, the Westland County derives all the benefit. It will be the settlers on the north bank of the Teremakau who will be mostly and directly benefited, by having a near market at Dillman’s for their produce. The Westland County derives no such benefit. Some of the Grey Councillors seemed not to know that tenders for working this ferry have been called for by the Westland County Council. An old man named John M £ Caffrey was found in a dying state on the Dillman’s road last evening, at about seven o’clock, by Messrs C. M‘Keegan, juu., and Lawrence Moore, who were on their way into town. The Samaritans picked the old man up and carried him into the nearest house, which happened to be that known as Louisa Pett’s, where the unfortunate man expired in a few minutes. Information was at once given to the police, and the body was removed to the nearest hotel, the Metropolitan, where a post mortem examination was made this afternoon by Dr. Davy. An inquest will bo held by J. Giles, Esq., Coroner, at eleven o’clock to-morrow morning. Our Wellington correspondent’s letter dated yesterday, 12.25 p.m., did not, owing probably to the telegraph line working badly, reach us till late last night. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before A. C. Campbell and F. A. Monckton, Esqs., J.Ps., John Harris w'as brought up, and four informations laid against him : first, for being drunk and disorderly at Dillman’s Town last night, to which he pleaded not guilty; second, for assaulting Constable Meehan in the execution of his duty ; third, for using obscene language in a public place, to which charge he pleaded guilty ; and, fourth, for destroying Constable Meehan’s uniform. The charges to which he pleaded not guilty being proved, he was, for the first offence, fined £l, costs 2s, or 48 hours’ imprisonment ; for the second, fined £2, costs 2s, or seven days’ imprisonment ; for the third, 48 hours’ imprisonment, the law not now allowing the alternative of a fine ; and, for the fourth offence, fined £T, costs 2s, damages £l, costs of conveyance to town, ss, or seven days’ imprisonment. The coach which left here on Tuesday morning for the Bealey not having arrived there last night, Mr Cassidy, who is driving the one between Springfield, and the Bealey, came on from the inland township at daylight this morning, met Arthur Davis on the Otira Gorge, and, after exchanging mails, returned to the Bealey and on to Springfield. There has been a slip on the cast side of the Otira Gorge ; but the coach hitherwards succeeded in arriving here at four o’clock this afternoon. The attention of miners using the sludge-channel is directed to an important letter in another column relative to the future working of the channel. Mr J. J. Williams, whoso pleasant, genial face is known all over Westland, has (the Times states) turned boniface, and is now proprietor of the Cafe do Baris Hotel, Hokitika. Mr Williams will prove a worthy successor of our old friend Sam Harris, to whom the customary prefix is a mockery, who shortly leaves for scenes remote.

Tenders for the supply of gravel and metal, for streets, and for firewood, close this evening, prior to the meeting of the Borough Council, at which the same will be dealt with. A sixth share in Giddens and party’s five-acre sluicing claim at Ross Terrace is for sale. Particulars can be obtained on application to Mr Thomas Jones, Dillman’s. A monster meeting of 20,000 persons, of both sexes, was held in Christchurch yesterday, when resolutions in favor of proceeding with the construction of the East and West Coast Railway were carried with acclamation. King John, of Abyssinia, who claims to be a direct descendant of King Solomon, has had a throne constructed by Italian artificers similar to that used by Solomon himself. Over £7O has been raised to place a monument over the grave of the domestic Alice Ayres, who saved the lives of her master’s children at the expense of her own at a recent fire in London. The revenue of the Chinese Government for the current year is estimated at £19,544,000. That of Great Britain for 1883-84 was £87,205,184. Some children playing with matches in the Hungarian village of Nemedi, caused a fire which destroyed 232 houses and ruined the population. Nine-tenths of all the forecasts made last year by the French weather bureau are said to have been verified. In Toyama, Prefecture, Japan, every man of any means, and even the local officials and police authorities, are said to be studying the English language. The general belief appears to be that those who do not know the English tongue are behind the times. A Scolding Woman. —The barbarities fo the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law, are now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the less .reprehensible. Women scold only when they are ill. Instead of blaming them we should prescribe American Co.’s Hop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will be quieted and ascerbity of word and thought will give place to amiability and affection. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Read Lady Beautifiers. —Ladies, you cannot make fair hair, rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyes with all the cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in poor health, and nothing will give you such rich blood, good health, strength, and beauty as Hop Bitters, American Co.’s make. A trial is certain proof. See.