The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2909, 24 February 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1886.

"Slash No. 1" of "The Stockwhip," has reached us. It purports to be a paper written by a farmer in the interests of farmers; but really its principal object seems to be to advocate the establishment of a State Bank in New Zealand. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour.

The Union Company's steamer Mahinapua arrived at Greymouth from Wellington direct last night after a smart passage of 26 hours.

At the conclusion of his lecture at Arrowtown, Professor Black stated that after visiting the various important mining centres in Otago, it was his intention to proceed to the West Coast on a visit of inspection. There he would be joined by Messrs Stout, Larnach, Taylor, and other gentlemen of standing. He felt conscious that very soon Government would place such a sum on the Estimates as would rear a school of mines for the entire colony of New Zealand.

The Reefton Times reports that the Minister of Public Works has promised MrMenteath, M.H.R., that tenders will be called for bridging the left-hand branch of the Inangahua River as soon as the plans are received from the Greymouth Resident Engineer. It appears that the late encroachments of the river necessitated an alteration in the plans, and this is the cause of the delay. Mr J. L. Smith, the well known theatrical agent, is now on his way to Hokitika from Nelson, to arrange for a short season of the "Called Back" Company. This company, we learn, is the largest that has ever visited the West Coast, and brings a great many novelties. There is at present a row in Dimedin because a man who had been injured by an accident was taken to the hospital, and had to lie for three-quarters of an hour unattended, because the doctor was at a lawn tennis match.

Two women, wives of selectors, residing at Cookabeen, Little River, about twenty miles from Dubbo (N.S.W.), were struck by lightning on the 23rd January. They were evidently standing near the door of their house, and lay near each other. Close to one of the women was a dog quite dead. The only other inmate of the house at the time was a little child two years old, which seems also to have been slightly burned. The names of the deceased are Mrs Ebyery, who leaves a large family, and Mrs Morgan, who had not been long married. As an instance of the value of les petites indnstries, it may be stated that 2000 tons of raspberries, of the value of £33,000, were received at the terminus of the Lilydale line of railway, for transmission to Melbourne, this season.

Miss Orme and Miss Richards, who recently passed the necessary legal examination with great credit, have an office in Chancery Lane, London, and are now practising successfully as solicitors.

A woman, named Miss Minnet, who was supposed to be suffering from extreme poverty, died on a recent date at Girton, near Newark. On her house being searched after the funeral no less than £2,340 was found. On the top of her bed there was £4OO, and bank notes were stitched beneath a piece of carpet as for lining. A peck of copper, silver, and gold coins were also found. Miss Minnet lived alone, and always had the appearance of being wretchedly poor. Mouat, TunriTUDK— 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 Aocouxt.—"To sum it up, six long years of bed-ridden sickness and suffering, costing £4O per year, total £240, 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