The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2826, 12 October 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1885.

It may bo interesting to note, regarding the Mines Act Amendment Bill, which has become law (and of which we gave a digest in Saturday's issue) that Clauses 7, 8,9, 11, 12, and 13 were struck out of the original bill during Mr Seddon's temporary absence from Parliament ; but on his return, and pointing out to the Goldfields Committee the importance and absolute necessity of their being retained for the

amending of the existing law, they were, after discussion, unanimously adopted and passed into law. In the matter of the real and personal estate of the late Henry Morris, miner, of Kumara, it is notified that all persons indebted to the estate, or having claims against the same, are requested either to pay or forward them to R. C. Hamerton, Esq., Public Trustee Wellington, or to R. W. Wade, Esq., Hokitika, on or before the 28th instant.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Westland County Council will be held on Wednesday next. A special meeting of the Council will be held on Thursday (the following day) to elect a member to represent the Council on the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Board. Tenders for works advertised by the County Council close to-morrow evening at five p.m. No tender will be received which does not arrive to hand by that hour. Messrs Gird wood and Co. will sell by auction at the Preston Yards, Greymouth, to-morrow, at 2 p.m., prime porkers and heavy-weight cross-bred wethers. In the late mail news a terrible catastrophe is reported as having occurred at Cologne. Two houses on the Holzmarket, occupied altogether by sixteen families, suddenly fell in. The fire brigade and police were quickly on the spot, and immediately commenced the work of rescue. Up to the time the mail left it was ascertained that three persons were mortally and eight others more or less seriously injured. According to another report, however, three dead bodies had already been recovered from the ruins, together with seventeen of the injured, and there were still fifty persons beneath the debris.

On Saturday afternoon (the West Coast Times reports) an accident occurred through which a boy about ten years old, eldest son of Mr W. Spence, auctioneer, broke his leg. The lad mounted a horse, saddled and bridled, which had been tethered by its owner, and rode along Gibson's Quay. On arriving at a spot near the junction of Sale street with the Quay, the boy was thrown and had his leg fractured above the knee. Dr. King was called in and attended to the sufferer.

The Brunnerton correspondent of the Argus reports that at a meeting of the Grey Valley Miners Medical Association, held on Saturday evening last, for the purpose of electing a medical man for the district, the secretary explained that in response to the advertisements for a doctor he had received six applications. The committee had gone over the testimonials and they could not agree as to which would be the most suitable ; they therefore recommended the miners to appoint one of the two under-mentioned gentlemen—namely, Drs. Langdon and Monckton, which, on being put to the meeting, resulted in Dr. Monckton getting 10 votes and Dr. Langdon 24. The names of the other four applicants were—Drs. M'Loughlin, Carney, Mountain, and Chilton. The Argus notes that " the Greymouth Post Office Hotel has now changed hands, having become the property of Mr Thomas Jones, recently of Kumara and Barrytown. Mr and Mrs Jones are both well and favorably known, and well adapted for the business, and therefore ought to meet with a fair share of custom."

A boy, aged eight years, died suddenly at Oamaru on Sunday 4th inst., and an inquest was held the following day, at which the medical evidence gave the cause of death as poisoning. It appears that the boy had eaten green rhubarb tops on Saturday last, and on Saturday night and Sunday morning was taken ill with vomiting, retching, and purging. The post mortem revealed the fact that the irritation caused by eating the rhubarb had occasioned the boy's death, causing congestion of the brain.

Mrs Shelley, one of Westport's early residents, passed sway on Tuesday afternoon, after a prolonged illness. General break-up of the system was the cause of death, the kidneys and the apex of the left lung being affected. The deceased was a kind and hospitable old lady (the Westport Times remarks), and there are many along this Coast who must remember her with gratitude. Often had she fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and buried the destitute dead at her own cost, iu years gone by. The funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon, and was attended by a large number of persons. The Otago Daily Times says that Mr Sala, in his tour through New Zealand, is doing the fastest time on record. Mrs Langtry, according to London messages in the San Francisco papers, still contemplates visiting Australia, and mentions the next autumn as the probable time when she will do so. It is mentioned also that her last season at the Princess' Theatre, London, had been disastrous, and had occasioned a loss of about £GOOO,

The excitement caused by the rush to the Gumerauha goldfields, South Australia, continues unabated. A large number of men are obtaining payable results, a large nugget of over twenty ounces having been found by one party of miners. It is stated that more than one nobleman, who is believed to be implicated in the satyrlike conduct exposed by the Pall Mall Gazette, has been sent to Coventry by "society." The names and misdeeds of each of the culprits have been communicated to a Committee, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Manning are active members. Several prominent people whose names were found on Mrs Jeffries' books have considered it expedient to absent themselves for a time from the mother country. A Lovely Chaplet.—A late fashion report says : "Nothing can be prettier than a chaplet of hop vines in blossom." A recent medical review says : " Nothing can be a better renovator of the health than Hop Bitters. They aid in all the operations of nature; toning up the stomach, assisting the food to become properly assimilated, and promote healthy action in ail the organs. The dictates of fashion, as well as the laws of health, alike favour a right application of hops." Read