The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2919, 8 March 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1886.

The Union Pacific Mail steamship Alameda, 3000 tons, Morse, commander, with English, European, and American mails via San Francisco, arrived at Auckland at eight o'clock yesterday morning over a day late, being detained both at San Francisco, Honolulu, and Tutuila. She sailed from Auckland at midnight, with Cardinal Moran and Bishop Murray as passengers. The Rotorua, with the southern mails, left Onehunga at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, with a quantity of white fish eggs, per Alameda. At the hearing of the charge against two men at the Dunedin Police Court on the 25th ult., for playing an unlawful game on the racecourse with a goose and marble, Mr Carew, R.M., after hearing evidence and considering the Acts upon the question, said lie was inclined to think that this game had been instituted by some gentleman of legal ability, and was one outside the effect of the law, and consequently the information would be dismissed. Particulars of the case are given in another column.

The first quarterly meeting of the new Licensing Committee for the Licensing District of the Borough of Kumara was held in the Court House at noon to-day. All the members were present, viz., Messrs M. Maloney, J. Davies, F. A. Olden, W. Nicholson, and James S. Benyon. Mr J. Davies was elected Chairman. The only application to be dealt with was to transfer the license of the Queen's Hotel, Seddon street, from

Nathan Seddon (deceased) to Nathan Rothwell. The application was granted. The annual meeting of the Licensing Committee takes place on the 7th June. A meeting of Templars, Blue Ribbonites, and others interested in the success of a Temperance Mission, which Mr Matthew Burnett, the eminent Temperance lecturer, will open in Kumara in a few days, is to be held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening next, for the purpose of organising a working committee to carry out details, &c. Members of church choirs are also invited to attend.

Commander Edwin wired at 12.46 p.m. "Bad weather is expected within 12 hours between north-east and north and west; glass further fall." Contractors are reminded that the tenders for the construction of a dray road from Blake's tramway to join the Mignonette Flat road close to-morrow, Tuesday, 9th inst., at 5 p.m.

The annual Miners' Ball is notified to be held on Friday, 30th April, and will doubtless be patronised as largely as in preceding years.

The Lyell paper expresses the opinion that two years at the outside will see Lyell one of the largest inland towns in New Zealand.

W. J. M'llroy and Co., Main street, Kumara, beg to announce that they are purchasers of gold.—[Advt.] Drunken Stuff.—How many children and women are slowly and surely dying, or rather being killed, by excessive doctoring, or the daily use of some drug or drunken stuff called medicine, that no one knows what it is made of, who can easily be cured and saved by American Co.'s Hop Bitters, which is so pure, simple, and harmless that the most frail woman, weakest invalid, or small child can trust in it! See

Facts.—Close confinement and careful attention to all factory work gives the operatives pallid faces, poor appetites, languid, miserable feelings, poor blood, inactive liver, kidneys, &c, and all the physicians and medicine in the world cannot help them unless they get out of doors or use American Co.'s Hop Bitters. None need suffer if they will use it freely. See