The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2903, 17 February 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1886.

The opening Mission Service at Holy Trinity Church will commence at eight o’clock this evening. The Introductory Service of the Mission will be found in the small hymn-books, specially printed for Mission work, and may be procured at Messrs Davidson Bros’.

We understand a new Minister for Holy Trinity Church, the Rev. Mr Hodgson, is now on his way from Christchurch, and may be expected to arrive here this evening or to-morrow. Nominations of five persons to constitute the Licensing Committee for the Licensing District of Arahura will be received till noon to-morrow at the Court House, Stafford, by the Returning Officer, H. R. Rae, Esq. The election, if necessary, will take place on Friday, the 26th inst.

Viscount Edward Cardwell, whose decease is announced in a cable message to-day, held the portfolio of Secretary of State for War in the first Gladstone Administration, 1868 to 1873, and was created Viscount Cardwell fn 1874. He was bornin 1813, and is therefore 73. He is married, but has no son or heir. The Government have intimated to Mr Richmond, of Taranaki, that it is intended to advise his Excellency to make a regulation under section 99 of the Act enabling the Boards to pay the fares of members traveling to and from meetings of the Charitable Aid Board. Section 99 provides that—“ Where there is any omission in the Act, or where no provision or no sufficient provision shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be made, the Governor may from time to time make and prescribe all such regulations and orders, either general or applicable to particular cases, only as he shall think fit, for the purpose of facilitating or more effectively carrying into execution the provisions of this Act.”

The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Committee lapsed for want of a quorum. In our report of the previous meeting of the Committee the following receipts were omitted to be mentioned :—By Mr Ziegler, £3 5s ; Mr Watson, £1 ; Mr Voysey, £1 ; Mr Wooldridge, 10s; the Wardsman, ICs. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour. The annual installation of W.M. and officers of the Pacific Lodge of Masons 1229 E.C., took place at the Lodge Room, Masonic Hall, Hokitika, yesterday afternoon. The Times says that the ceremony was impressively conducted by the R.W.D.G.M., Bro. John Bevan, assisted by acting D.D.G.M. Bro. J. R. Hudson, and there was a large assemblage of brethren from all parts of the district. The following officers were duly installed ; W.M., W. H. Purnell ; S.W., J. J. Clarke; J.W., A. B. King; Treasurer, C. F. G. Robeck ; Secretary, J. J. Williams ; S.D., D. S. Rowcliffe; J.D., J. Weber; 1.G., T. H. Coltman ; Tyler, H. S. Wales. After the interval, follow-

ing the close of the lodge, the brethren sat down to an ample supper provided by Bro. Hudson. The good things being disposed of, and the usual loyal and Masonic toasts duly honored, the evening wound up with songs, toasts, &c., which were kept up till midnight. A public meeting was held at Taylorville on Monday evening to take into consideration the advisability of erecting a Public Hall in TaylorviUe ; and a committee was appointed and requested to bring up a report as to the most central site and the number of shares most likely to be taken up. Mr J. D. Lance, M.H.R. for Cheviot, who accompanied his Excellency the Governor overland from Christchurch to the West Coast, arrived in Nelson last Wednesday night, having made the trip up the Buller Yalley by coach. The Nelson Mail understands that he is highly pleased with what he saw on the journey, and being a hearty supporter of the railway he will now be able to advocate its construction all the more earnestly and influentially from having made himself acquainted with the route which it is to pass.

A charge of larceny was brought against Thomas Muirhead at Westport recently, but the Magistrate dismissed it without calling on the accused for a statement. Muirhead was charged with stealing a watch and a five pound note from one Bond. Bond however, who had been drinking with Muirhead, asserted his belief that Muirhead took his property for safe keeping, the former being drunk. But it is said that the police were justified in taking action on the statements made by Bond.

On her voyage from the Pacific Coast of South America to Maui, one of the Sandwich Islands, the schooner J. C. Ford was set fire to by a passing meteor. The mizzen staysail, which was clewed up, took fire at the mast head, and was destroyed, the main peak halyard block was charred badly, and the masthead was burnt about half an inch deep. Fragments of a metallic-like substance quite hot, were picked up and thrown overboard. It was between one and two o’clock in the afternoon. The weather was fine, and wind moderate. Meteors were noticed the night before to be very numerous.

The £SO necessary to obtain the subsidy voted by Government to “ Black Peter ” having been obtained, Mr Pyke, M.H.R., has made application to the Government for their amount. The fund is to be placed under the control of a committee.

W. J. MTlroy and Co., Main street, Kumara, beg to announce that they are purchasers of gold.—[Advt.] Moral Turpitude.—Blame attaches to a jury of intellgent men when they condemn a man for crime whose moral nature has been perverted by indigestion, diseased liver and kidneys. A thoughtful judge may well consider whether society would not be better served by ordering a bottle of American Co.’s Hop Bitters for the unfortunate in the dock instead of penal servitude. Read

A Good Account.—“To sum it up, six long years of bed-ridden sickness and suffering, costing £4O per year, total ■£24o, all of which was stopped by three bottles of American Co.’s Hop Bitters taken by my wife, who has done her own housework for a year since without the loss of a day, and I want everybody to know it for their benefit.”—John Weeks Butler. Find ’