The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2931, 22 March 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1886.

In terms of section 49 of “ The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Acs, 1885, to-day has been appointed' and for some time notified as the time, and and the Town Hall as the place for the first meeting of contributors to the Kumara Hospital for the election of Trustees for the institution, under the new Act, and for the transaction of any other business relating to the institution put before it. It may be as well to state that contributois means persons who have subscribed to the local hospital funds to the amount of 5s and over between the Ist of October, 1885, and Tuesday last, the 16th March, 1886, and no person who has not so contributed can have any voice in the meeting or vote for the election of the trustees. There are six Trustees to be elected by the contributors; the other five required will be elected by the County and Borough Councils. Contributors to the amount of 10s within the period mentioned will be entitled to two votes; to the amount of 15s, to three votes; to 20s, four votes; and conti ibutors to the amount of 25s and upwards to five (and not more than five) votes.

It is expected that at the meeting tonight a report and financial statement of the affairs of the local Hospital under the management of the late Committee will be submitted, which, we are pleased to learn, will be of a very satisfactory character. The meeting will take place at eight o’clock sharp. There will be a meeting of the outgoing Hospital Committee at seven o’clock, and it is requested that members will be present punctually at the hour named.

In our report on Saturday of the meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday it was stated that—“ Or. Olden, by notice, moved—“ That the resolution of the Council on the 15th June, 1882, appointing Mr J. B. Henhani a sexton, be rescinded, and that Mr F. Keenan, day labour man, be appointed to do the'work m his ordinary capacity, with extra fees.” By a typographical error the three letters “out” were omitted, making it read “with extra fees” instead of “without extra fees,” as written.

The Christchurch coach, with East Coast, Australian, and English and European direct mails, arrived yesterday afternoon, after another struggle with the elements, flooded rivers, and the inconvenience of getting over the Waimea Creek, which seems to have assumed a magnitude worthy almost of a name of a river. Where the bridge was there is a stream of water fifteen to twenty feet deep in flood, as it was yesterday, and 80 feet broad! There is not a vestige of the floor of the bridge left, and only two or three rotten piles and of course the approaches—to show where a bridge may have been. The passengers have to walk and the mails have to bo carried through a swampy paddock over a one-plank foot bridge on to the south bank, thence along a muddy sheep track over a hundred yards to the roadway again. Pending the erection of a new bridge, which is a matter of urgent and immediate necessity, it were better perhaps for the Government to employ a boat or small punt for transporting passengers and mails across (he creek. D r , Logan Campbell and Mr Matt lie w Burnett, the great Temperance advocate, were among the passengers, of whom there were 14 or 15-

Messrs Woon, E. Heaphy, and another gentleman being for Greymouth, and Messrs Walker, Keary, Cunningham, Cameron, and the Misses Walker and Keary, for Hokitika. By an anouncement elsewhere it will be seen that Dr. Davy will vaccinate at two o’clock to-morrow. Commander Edwin wired at 12.21 p.m. to-day—“ Bad weather may be expected between west and south and south-east; glass rise soon, and weather cold.” The following is taken from the Government organ in Dunedin ;—“ A correspondent, not ‘Our Own,’ wires us from Wellington to the effect that a serious breach had occurred between the Premier and Treasurer. The former gentleman, our informant states, is determined to set his face against the wholesale borrowing system advocated by the latter, and declares that if Sir Julius persists in what is known as his ‘ vigorous policy ’ he will resign. Mr Stout is now known as the ‘One Million Premier,’ while Sir Julius Vogel is called the ‘ Ten Million Treasurer.’ ”

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