The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 2924, 13 March 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1880.

A cablegram this afternoon informs ns that the libel action Bryce (late Native Minister for New Zealand) v. Rusden, an English author, which has been proceeding in London during the past eight days, was concluded yesterday, with a verdict being returned for plaintiff, damages £SOOO. An application by defendant’s counsel to stay execution was refused. The Christchurch coach, with a full complement of passengers, among whom we noticed Dr. Giles, R.M. (who is returning from tlie annual meeting of the Senate of the University of New Zealand), arrived at the usual hour this afternoon, with East Coast and Australian mails. The Salvation Army will “open fire” at eight o’clock this evening, in tho Adelphi Theatre. To-morrow the ‘ ‘ firing ”

will be continued in the Theatre Royal, at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7.45 p.m. Commander Edwin wired at 12.30 p.m. to-day:—“Bad weather is expected between north-east and north and west, and rain ; glass falling and wind backing.” Mr Froude is of opinion that in proportion to their population, Australia has more eminent men than the mother country. In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Greymouth, yesterday, the case of J. E. Fitz Gerald, Controller and Auditor-Gen-eral v. A. R. Guinness, member of Harbor Board, for £8 13s lOd, defendant’s portion of the sum of £52 3s 2d alleged to have been spent without the authority of the law, was heard. Objection was taken that the Auditor-General had no authority to take such proceedings, and the Magistrate held that it had not been shown that the Government required the Audit Office to audit the accounts of the Greymouth Harbor Board, and found judgment for the defendant, with costs £1 Is. Mr John Henniker Heaton, late of the colonies, who was returned at the head of the poll by a large majority as a member of the British Parliament for the borough of Canterbury, is alluded to in “ Society,” a gossiping periodical in London, as having “ marvelous skill as a newspaper canvasser.” Apropos of Mr Henniker Heaton, the Pall Mall Gazette says ; “He has been a journalist, though only in Australia.” This smacks of Cockney priggishness. Notice. Several cases of splendid Boots and Shoes have just arrived, and are now open to view at M. Wall’s Boot and Shoe Shop, Main street. Prices low.— [Advt.J W. J. Mfflroy 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, Ac., 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