The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2926, 16 March 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1886.

The heavy rain of Sunday had the effect of so raising the Waimea Creek as to wash away the bridge on the Christchurch Road, between Harris's and Old John's, on Sunday night. The coach and passengers proceeded this morning on the usual journey, at about 12 o'clock, but returned again shortly before four o'clock, it having been found impossible to get through. The coach will make another start to-morrow morning, when it is hoped they may be able by some means to cross the creek, aud resume the journey to Christchurch. A cablegram from Hobart this afternoon states that H.M.S. Diamond had arrived there from Sydney, with seventeen cases of typhoid fever aboard. The vessel was, of course, placed in quarantine. At the inquest at Dillman's Town today on the remains of Syvert Rynning, a report of which is given elsewhere, Constable Williams deposed to finding the following memo of address in the purse of deceased :—-" Mrs James Glover, Stafford Town, Hokitika. From Ben Lyons, Stirling." From this probably arose the report on Sunday that the name of the man who was found dead was "Glover." The funeral of Rynning took place at three o'clock this afternoon, and was largely attended, deceased being a member of the Lazar Masonic Lodge. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held in the Town Hall, at eight o'clock this evening. To-morrow evening the Dillman's Town Amateur Dramatic Club will make their appearance at the Adelphi Theatre, in Boucicanlt's celebrated sensational drama " The Octoroon." The Club have always been to the fore in the cause of charity, and now that they are about to play for the benefit of their own wardrobe fund, we trust the public will not be unmindful of their unselfish efforts in the past. They have been actively engaged in their preparations for some time past, and Mr Dillon, their coach, assures us that the final rehearsal which took place last night was of a most satisfactory kind, and expresses his belief that a performance of more than ordinary merit may be looked forward to. The piece will be appropriately mounted, and a novel and interesting feature in it will be the introduction of several slave jubilee and plantation melodies. Full particulars appear in the programme, in another column. Messrs Foley and Berkley will appear in their clever and original entertainment entitled "Chic" at the Theatre Royal to-morrow and Thursday evenings. In reference to it the Nelson Colonist writes : " A more meritorious and genuine entertainment it has not been the good fortune of Nelson Theatre goers to witness for some considerable time. It may commonly be the impression that two artists, be as talented as that may, are somewhat inadequate to give an entertainment of an entirely satisfactory nature. Such, in this instance, is certainly not the case. From the rise to the fall of the curtain a genuine laugh was enjoyed, which frequently resolved into decided enthusiasm. We have had many performers here who, whilst professing astonishing changes of a 'lightning' nature, had little else besides divesting themselves of various articles of the wardrobe, to recommend them. Messrs Foley and Berkley give their audience not only the most rapid and startling of metamorphoses in the way of changes of character that we ever remember witnessing, some of which actually appear instantaneous, but these are made the agents to decipher a most humorous and clever comedy, comprising eight distinct characters, the whole being taken and re-taken by these two gentlemen in a manner which should leave, even to the most fastidious, little to be desired. The dialogue is sparkling and witty, the songs bright and appropriately selected." W. J. M'llroy and Co., Main street, Kumara, beg to announce that they are purchasers of gold.—[Advt.] 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. [A DVT. J Skill in the Workshop.—To do good work the mechanist must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled his hand or dimmed his sight, let him at once, and before some organic trouble appears take plenty of Dr. Soule's Hop Bitters. His system will be rejuvenated, his nerves strengthened, his sight become clear, and the whole constitution be built up to a higher working condition, Reas ,