The Kumara Times. published Every Eveninu THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2838, 5 November 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. published Every Eveninu THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1885.

It is gratifying to announce that for the first time since the opening of the institution the local Hospital has now not a single patient within its walls. Between the olst lilt, and Tuesday, 3rd instant, four patients had been discharged cured or relieved, leaving but one ; and this solitary patient was discharged last evening. It is a cause of thankfulness that the community has for some time been free from the recurrence of mining accidents, which were so prevalent in the early days of this goldlield, for which cases the institution was niaiuly founded, as indeed they proved to be the causes of suffering of a majority of its inmates. The only approach to this satisfactory state of things was just before the Christmas of 1831, when Peter Doonan, suffering from phthisis, and since dead, was for five or six weeks the sole occupant of the institution. The annual election of a Mayor for the Borough of Kumara will take place on Wednesday, the 2Gth inst., and the Returning Officer (Mr G. R. Rudkin) announces elsewhere that nominations will

be received at the Town Clerk's Office, Seddon street, up to the hour of noon on Wednesday next. In the event of a contest for the Mayoral chair, the polling will take place on Wednesday, the 25th inst., at the Town Hall. At the monthly meeting of the School of Mines last week, the following candidates were unanimously elected as members : Messrs George Allman, Robert Burrell, Arthur Helms, Walter Williams, and Thomas Meehan. The half-yearly balance-sheet was received and approved of, and a vote of thanks accorded to the Treasurer (Mr liudkin) for the trouble he had taken in preparing it, also for his services for the past six months. A similar compliment was paid to Mr Olden, Hon. Sec. The statement showed an expenditure of £2l 6s 6d, and the balance in bank and in hand was £4 13s 6d. The first monthly free lecture is to take place in the Town Hall to-morrow evening. Mr Robson's Transparent Diorama of the Egyptian War, to be followed by most magnificent scenes of England, Ireland, and Scotland, will be exhibited in the Theatre Royal this evening. We have had the opportunity of inspecting many of the pictures that will be presented, and find they are thrilling war scenes, landscapes, and statuary of the highest art ; and if Mr Robson is as successful as he has been in other places in reproducing them on the immense sheet on the stage, and we have no doubt he will, the moving panorama will be well worth the price of admission. The gifts which are to be distributed to the holders of tickets are also of a serviceable and useful character, and will doubtless add to the general attraction of the entertainment, which commences at 8 o'clock. It is estimated there were 140,000 people on the Flemington racecourse on Tuesday when the Melbourne Cup was run for. The returns are the largest on record. We have received a result slip of the Robin Hood consultation, which is referred to in another article. The following cash bonds came to Dillman's Town : 4,232, 12,168, 22,725, 22,749, 24,506, 27,510, 27,546, 30,960, 31,751. Considerable amusement was recently caused in the House of Commons by the awkwardness of expression of an hon. member entrusted with a petition, who rose solemnly, and remarked, without any punctuation : —"Mr Speaker I beg to present a petition for the better protection of young girls from members of the Young Men's Christian Association." It is Worth a Trial.—" I was troubled for many years with kidney complaint, gravel, &c. ; my blood became thin, I was dull and inactive, could hardly crawl about, and was an old worn-out man all over, and could get nothing to help me until I got American Co.'s Hop Bitters, and now my blood and kidneys are all right, and I am as active as a man of thirty although I am seventy-two, and I have no doubt it will do as well for others of my age. It is worth the trial.'— (Father.) Notice Not a Beverage.—" They are not a beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drugs. They do not tear down an already debilitated system, but build it up. One bottle contains more real hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer. Physicians prescribe them. —Rochester, U.S.A., Evening Express, on American Hop Bitters.