The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2939, 1 April 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1886.

Warning is given by the Grey County road overseer that the Three-mile bridge, on the Greenstone road, is dangerous for traffic, and that any person crossing said bridge with a loaded vehicle after this date will do so at his own expense. This bridge, it may be stated, is built on piles at an elevation of about 35 feet above the creek bed. The piles are so rotten that a brace and bit was driven through one of them by merely pressing on it. Should the bridge collapse under any vehicle, the consequences would be lamentable. The Overseer, we know, has frequently reported to the Grey County Council on the dangerous state of this bridge, but the Council will not realise the extent of the danger, and have merely carried resolutions on each occasion applying to the Government for aid to re-construct it. Plans and specifications for a new bridge were prepared in last June, and were submitted to Government for a subsidy, but nothing further has been heard of the application since. At last meeting of Council (March 9th) the Overseer again reported on the unsafe state of the bridge ; and a further resolution was carried to again apply to the Government for assistance. And so the matter rests, and it will be necessary, we suppose, for a bishop or a Government Minister to be killed or injured before any steps are taken by the Council or Government for the safety of life and traffic on this public highway. We have again the pleasure of reminding our readers and the public that tomorrow the "Called Back" Dramatic and Comedy Company will revisit Kumara, and in the evening and on Saturday will produce at the Theatre Royal, two grand dramatic pieces. "The Shaughrauh," which is to be presented to-morrow evening, is regarded as the best Irish drama M. Boucicanlt has produced. It is a captivating piece, and has had marvelous success on the stage in the United Kingdom, America, and Australia, and, as presented by the " Called Back " Company, is highly spoken of by the Press, and is sure to prove a great treat. Tonight the company play at Stafford. We learn from the Star that Dr. MacCarthy is rapidly improving. There are no feverish symptoms existing, and the scalp wound is progressing very favourably. There was a certain amount of mental aberration caused by the severe concussion the brain received, but that is gradually passing away, and he is now able to recognise friends around him, and bids fair to recover within a few days.— [We have since learned from Dr. Davy, who received a message at half-past two o'clock this afternoon, from Mr Williams, the resident Dispenser at the Grey Hospital, that—Dr. MacCarthy is very ill to-day. The doctors attending him have very little hopes of his recovery.] Owing to D. Macfarlane, Esq., Warden, being called away to meet the Minister of Mines at the mouth of the Ilaast River on Saturday next, the Warden's Court, on opening to-morrow morning, will be adjourned.

The Borough Council will hold its ordinary fortnightly meeting at the Town Hall, this evening. To-day, Ist April, being All Fools Day, the practice of decoying persons out of their ordinary duties before they had time to think of the day of the month was indulged in—much to the chagrin, in many cases, of the persons operated upon, but to the intense delight and satisfaction of the beholders. We heard of a man being sent, with measure, to put a pane of glass in a bakehouse window; but he failed to discover that a pane was wanting, and he was observed panefully watching the countenances of those near him, by which he came to understand his position. A girl was sent to fetch a parcel left at a certain well-known hotel. She again gave the inmates a good deal of trouble in looking about for the parcel, of which no size, shape, nor description could be given until the day of the month suggested one. Commander Edwin wired at 1.34 p.m. to-day—"lndications of frost to-night, or very much colder ; glass falling after 16 hours from now."

It will be gratifying to the Catholics and many other persons here by whom he is held in such great respect to know that Bishop Redwood, who is at present in Greymouth, will visit Kumara on Wednesday next. A reception committee has been formed to take steps to give his Lordship a suitable reception. He will arrive by the tramway from Greymouth in the evening of that day, and will be met and conducted by the committee to the Catholic Presbytery, and at 8 p.m. will attend St. Patrick's Church, where an address of welcome will be read by P. I>ungan, Esq., and presented to his lordship. It is expected the Catholic Brass Band will discourse welcome music on the occasion. The Bishop will hold confirmations at Goldsborough and Stafford on the next clay, Thursday; and on the following Sunday at Kumara. It is expected that his lordship will spend in this district about seven or eight days. The Humphrey's Gully Company washed up on Monday last with a total of 1920z5., being five pennyweights more than Mr M'Arthur, the engineer and superintendent, estimated would be procured after he had made a calculation as to the quantity of dirt sluiced. Though such a close estimate is phenomenal, the result (the Times thinks) shows the quality of the dirt averages very evenly, the only thing necessary to produce heavy yields being a large water supply. This Mr M'Arthur thinks, will be obtained when Brentnall's Creek is tapped. Mr John Lord was the successful tenderer of ten for labour for the erection of coachhouse, stables, &c, to the Catholic Presbytery.

W. J. M'llroy and Co., Main street, Kumara, beg to announce that they are purchasers of gold.—[Advt.]

"You Don't Know Theie Value."— "They cured me of biliousness and kidney complaint, as recommended. I had a half-bottle left, which I used for my two little girls, who the doctors and the neighbours said could not be cured. I am confident I should have lost both of them one night if I had not had the American Co.'s Hop Bitters in my house to use. That is why I say you do not know half the value of American Hop Bitters, and do not recommend them highly enough." See Highway Robbeky Almost, to sell the poisonous, drunken, purging stuff as medicine to honest men, innocent women, and harmless children to weaken and destroy their systems and health, when pure harmless Hop Bitters can be had that cures always and continually at a trifling cost. Ask druggists or physicians. Read