The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2818, 2 October 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1885.

The death is announced in a London cablegram this afternoon of Anthony Ashley Cooper, seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, at the ripe age of 84. The noble earl was famous for the prominent parts ho took in connection with various religious, social, and philanthropic societies. A meeting of the Borough Council was held last evening, at which his Worship the Mayor (H. Burger, Esq.) and all the Councillors were present. The principal business was the consideration of a motion to give the Mayor a salary. Notice of this was given by Cr. Olden at the last meeting of the Council, as follows : "That the Mayor be paid a salary out of the Borough fund ; that the amount of such salary be £SO per annum : and that the salary for the present year be now passed for payment." Crs. Ziegler and Anderson supported the motion, whilst all the other councillors —the Mayor (who retired) of course, excepted—spoke against it. A division was taken, which resulted as follows :—Ayes, 3—Crs. Olden, Ziegler, Anderson ; Noes, G —Crs. Kroener, Mulvihill, Killeen, Fitzsimons, Davies, and Maloney. The motion was therefore lost. The Council passed a sum of £lO, promised some months ago, to the Litevary Institute. A fuller report of the meeting will be given to-morrow. Wo have received the Union Steamship Pocket Guide for October. We observe that the steamship Mararoa, the largest vessel of the company's big fleet, is now out of the hands of the builders. The Mararoa's gross registered tonnage is put down at 3000 (being 050 tons in excess of the next largest, the Tekapo), whilst her indicated horsu-pnwer is 15000 (exceeding by J.OOO that of any other vessel of the fleet, Constable Hannidale, from Wellington, succeeds Sergeant Keating at Boatman's. The Pettingell-Hunt Combination gave an entertainment at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Hokitika, last, evening, which, the Times says, "was successful from one point of view, but the attendance, owing to the shocking weather, was not satisfactory." The company left by the coach this morning for Christchurch, passing through Kumara at the usual hour, about 8.30 a.m. The Grey River Argus remarks:—"lt does not appear likely that O'Loughlin will meet Hunt again ; but at any rate it is satisfactory to note that each man has a very high opinion of the other. O'Loughlin thinks Hunt the best runner he has ever faced, while Hunt thinks O'Loughlin a wonder, being the lirst man that has ever beaten him from scratch, and Hunt has run, roughly speaking, hundreds of times. He i i:iys he was prepared for a first-class man, but he war; not prepared to meet a man who could run the race at top speed from the jump to the finish through long grass and poo's of water all the road. It was thft st.reii'.fl-.h of Tommy's logs that carried i'i'M ihrough. lie ran the race right out ~-,,1 -vri.i; o'lce 7 ookc:d behind him. It is ;•: •:'•.■■■ V;r-.o o'Lou;;ji' ; )i h:i.'-. mad'.; a inaic-h with Craig, of Auckland, to run 4-10 yards

for £IOO a-side. The impression is that Craig has caught a tartar this time ; and the impression is not very far out. Hunt will probably bear testimony to that." The meeting of the School of Mines was adjourned owing to the inclemency of the weather on Monday night to this evening, and will be held at the Town Hall at eight o'clock. An entertainment is to be given at an early date to provide means for the Hospital appeal case. The Inangahua Herald of Tuesday states :—" Dr. Giles, of Hokitika, and Warden Kenrick, of Thames, are to exchange positions." We have the best of authority for stating that this is not so. Although such a change was contemplated some time ago, the Government has found that the removal of Wardens hither and thither has been a very expensive, and in several cases a very unnecessary and useless, proceeding; insomuch that the traveling allowance at so much per annum has been done away with, and Wardens are in future to charge the Government with their actual expenses of journeying through their respective districts to hold Courts. The Flying Dutchman's extensive stock list will be found on the fourth page of this issue. Good Words—From Good Authority. * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your American Co.'s Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter's, Vinegar and all other Bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that American Co.'s Hop Bitters have. * * We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., U.S. A., August 22, '7B, from Benton, Myers and Co., Wholesale druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see Good for Babies.—"We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of American Co.'s Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restoi'ed her to perfect health and strength." The Parents. See.