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Kumara Times, Issue 2887, 29 January 1886, Page 2

The Salisbury Ministry have resigned. E'arliament is adjourned till Monday.

A meeting of the Local School Committee was held at the Town Hall last evening. Intimation have been given that his Excellency the Governor will visit Kumara on or about Thursday next, the 4th February, it was resolved that the day be a school holiday and that the children meet at the school grounds at the hour fixed, and, in procession, proceed to the town boundary to meet his Excellency.

Kumara has been eminently successful at the Napier Fire Brigades competitions. In addition to the information given by our correspondent in another column, we have just received a message from Mr Burger, the Captain of the Kumara Fire Brigade, who went as a delegate with the Kumara team, as follows :—" Alarm and Rush, Kumara second prize. Tug-of-war, Red won, in which Kumara was represented."

Commander Edwin wired at 3.30 p.m. .to-day—" Bad weather may be expected between north-east and east and south; glass further fall, and much rain." At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before R. J. Seddon, A. C. Campbell, and James Holmes, Esqs., J.Ps., Margaret Taylor, Catherine Taylor, Catherine Fitzgerald, and Michael Fitzgerald, residents near the Rough Wainihinihi River, were severally charged with assault. Evidence was taken, which proved of a most conflicting character, and the Bench said there was only two alternatives—to believe all or none. They decided on the former, and fined each £l, with 17s costs, and bound each over to keep the peace for six months.— Jean Spindeler, for permitting the throwing of dice in his licensed house when said house should be closed, was fined 10s, and 13s costs.

Divine services will be held in Holy Trinity Church next Sunday, the Rev. H. G. Gould, of Hokitika, officiating; in the morning at 11, afternoon at 3, and evening at 7 o'clock.

Mr V. H. Maclymont, Assistant to Professor Black, is now holding a course of testing classes and lectures in the Museum Room, Westland Institute, Hokitika.

The Salvation Army open fire in Greymouth some time during the present week.

Tenders will be received at the Town Clerk's Office, till Thursday, 4th February, for cleariug and grubbing a piece of ground in the Kumara Cemetery. Specifications can be seen at the Town Hall.

Mr Robert Stewart, of Canterbury, will preach in the Presbyterian Church, Third street, on Sunday evening next, at 7 o'clock.

Provided no objection has been lodged by this day, 29th inst., with the Colonial Secretary, the Governor in Council will declare the Grey River Hospital to be a separate institution, in terras of section 43 of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885."

In our advertising columns will be seen the programme for Mr Gerald Dillon's entertainment, " Sweet Memories of Child Ireland," at the Theatre Royal tomorrow evening. All the items are not only national but of acknowledged merit, aud in the hands of Mr Dillon will, we feel confident, receive full justice. We advise our readers to carefully peruse the programme, believing that it is all that is required to ensure their attendance. The prices are most reasonable, adults being charged two and one shillings and children being admitted to all parts of the Theatre for sixpence.

In our Napier correspondent's report yesterday of the Engine Practice for Five Men, although it was shown that the Kumara team was fourth, the fact that there was a fourth prize was omitted to be stated. The fourth prize consisted of a handsome trophy and £5 (presented by the cabmen and expressmen of Napier). The total value for the event was £l2O ss.

A gentleman who recently made the overland trip from Nelson to Westport, writes to a friend in Nelson :—" I never travelled on a road where the people were so universally attentive. My wife, who is easily knocked up by coaching, did not feel the journey from Foxhill to the Lyell, which says a good deal for the state of the road. As to the drive, as a whole I was charmed with it. I do not think comparisons between it and the Christ-church-Hokitika road can be drawn. The Buller valley is as unique as the Otira Gorge, and one great thing to the advantage of the Nelson-Westport road is the absence of the disgusting river beds there are in Canterbury. An Alabastek Box.—Young girls finding their complexion growing sallow, and their skin becoming rough or freckly resort to perfumed ointments for a restoration of their bloom. All such should use American Co.'s Hop Bitters, which will aestore bloom to cheeks, whiteness and beauty to their complexion, making rich blood, good health, and happy smiles. Working Men.—Before you begin your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation your system needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent an attack of bilious or spring fever or sickness that will mint yon for a season's work. You will save time, sickness and expense, if you will use one bottle of American Co.'s Hop Bitters in your family this month I Pout wait. Read.