The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2824, 9 October 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1885.

An extensive five at the Charter-House (a corruption of Chartreuse, i.e., Carthusian) buildings, London, yesterday, has destroyed ten warehouses and several other houses. Commotion, owing pi’obably to the accident of putting his foot in a hole whilst training, has been scratched for the Caulfield Cup, in which he was top weight, 9st. 121 b., Welcome Jack second at 9st. 41b. ♦ Mr D. O’Brien’s bay colt Trenton, by Musket-Frailty, is heavily backed for the Melbourne Cup, at 100 to 7. Commander Edwin wired at 1.10 this afternoon —“Indications of being very cold to-night.” Dion Boucicault, the well-known dramatist and actor, is a passenger by the Zealandia from Sydney yesterday. It is stated that in consequence of Mr Dion Boucicault’s marriage, his son and daughter will not return to America with their father. The Kumara Rifles parade for inspection this evening. From intelligence received by a resident in town, we (Inangahua Times, October 7) learn that Mr S. Hopkins, late assistant teacher at the Reef ton State School, and more recently master of the Capleston School, died at Lakeside, Canterbury, on Thui’sday last. Mr Hopkins, who was about 2G ears of age, recently passed the B. A. degree, and accepted the mastei 1 - ship of the Lakeside School on account of the advantages ho would derive from being near the large educational institutes of Christchurch. The body of the deceased gentleman was interred in the Presbyterian Cemeteiy, near Leeston, on the day following his death. Tenders for the various works now advertised by the Westland County Council, close on Tuesday next, at the Council Chambers, Hokitika, at 5 p.m. Plans and specifications for those several works, can be seen at the various places mentioned in the advertisement, where, also, tender forms and schedule forms may be obtained. All envelopes should be endorsed with the name of the particular road, and the number of the section tendered for. All accounts against the Westland County Council for services or supplies up to September 30th last, should reach the office of the County Chairman, Hokitika, by Saturday (to-morrow) night. It is understood, says the Dunedin Star, that when the vacancy caused by Colonel Header’s dentil conies to be tided up, vhc Government will give effect to Mr Pallance’s proposal to demilitarise the police and place the civil branch of it under the administration of the Minister of Justice. The new Commissioner of Police will in all probability be selected from the senior inspectors, and the indications are that a Southern man will receive the appointment. Tenders for the construction of siphon in Ponrke and party’s claim close tomorrow evening.

Another moa story is told by the Wanganui Chronicle, as follows : —“ It is well known that an important Maori meeting was recently held somewhere at the foot of Tongariro, at least 800 of the Natives being present. A story is current among them that a few days ago a dog attacked a very large bird. The dog was getting the worst of it when a wahine came to its rescue, and attacked the bird. The bird struck out so violently that the husband had, in his turn, to assist his dusky spouse, and between the trio the bird was killed. It is said by the Maoris to have measured seven feet in height, the leg bones being as thick as those of a human being. Maonganui-te-ao, where the bird is said to have been killpd, is about the only part of this islsnd where it is possible for the moa to be still alive.” The Auckland Herald remarks :—“The counties of Buller, Grey, Inangahua, and Westland, all on the West Coast of the South Island, with a total valuation of £872,474, contributed only £835 to the Property Tax last year ! And for the benefit of these districts a railway is asked at a cost of three and a-half millions.” A meeting of the Napier Chess Club was held on September 23. The Chairman presented Mr Jacobsen with a trophy as the winner of the first prize in the recent tournament. The club is one of the strongest in New Zealand. The Town and Country Journal, Sydne, intends to issue as a Christmas Presentation Supplement a life-sized coloured engraving of her Majesty Queen Victoria. The picture is in medallion form, beautifully executed in colors, the portrait being enclosed in a wreath of roses, richly colored. The Liverpool Mercury states that when the telephone was taken to England by the agent of Dr. Bell, the inventor, all the patent rights connected with it were offered to the Post-Office Department for £30,000. The offer was declined, but a little later those sapient individuals, who thought £30,000 was too much for the patent for the whole United Kingdom, offered £540,000 for the exchange established in London alone. And they ask in vain. At a “saved drunkard’s meeting” in the Salvation Army Barracks, Melbourne, one man named Billy Aberdeen said that he had spent £250,000 in drink, and had been fined £2BOO for knocking down policemen. In August, 1882, a score of 902 runs was made in one innings by the Orleans Cricket Club at Rickling Green. In 1881, a match was played at Nether Whitacre, on August 13th, between Meridan and Nether Whitacre, when every batsman on both sides got a duck egg, and there were no extras, not a single score being made by either side, and, of course, the match drawn, though played out. Good Words—From Good Authority. * * * \y e 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 ax’e 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