The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2943, 6 April 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1886.

The death is announced in a cablegram this afternoon of the Right Hou. W. E. Fovster, M.P. for Bradford, at the age of GS. Mr Forster was an eminent politician. He was Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 18CG. He acquired great reputation from the admirable manner in which he piloted through the House of Commons the Education Bill of 1870 and also the Ballot Bill of 1871. When in 1881, the leaders of the Land League were arrested, the bitterness with which "Buckshot Forster " was denounced throughout Ireland was prodigious ; though Fawcett deserved groat credit for zeal, determination, and skill, in carrying the Land Act of 1881, which conferred unparalleled privileges on the Irish peasantry. He resigned office in 1882.

At the School Committee meeting last evening a circular was read stating that in accordance with clauses 64 and 69 of the " Education Act, 1877," and clause 3 of the "Education Act Amendment Act, 1885," the Board had fixed the annual election of householders to take place on the 2Gth April, which happens this year to be Easter Monday. This, of course, will be a very inconvenient day, principally because it is the one set apart for the Hospital fete, with a concert and ball in the evening. The Act is imperative, and the meeting of householders will have to be called for that day. Postponement, however, through any cause, will be a very simple matter ; and then, it is competent for the Board, under subsection GO, to fix another day for the election of a Committee, which will probably be done. Owing to the orchestra being otherwise engaged to-morrow night, the original Dillman's To..a quadrille assembly will be held on Friday in this week, instead j of Wednesday. I

Bishop Redwood is expected to arrive m Kumara to-morrow evening.

A Return of the Attendance of Scholars at the Knmara State School was read at the meeting of the School Committee last evening. We learn by it that the number of scholars belonging to the school at the end of last quarter (December, 1885) was 322, of which eight had left; but there had been admitted during the quarter ending March 1886, 21 scholars, of whom 14 had left; so that the actual number now attending the School is 321—158 males and 163 females. We learn also from the same return that 62 are 5 and under 7 years of age, 113 are 7 and under 10, 98 are 10 and under 13, 43 are 13 and under 15, and 5 are above 15 years.

The manager of this office some years ago must have had large ideas of the propensity of this community for letterwriting when he had constructed an editor's receiving box about the size of a kerosene tin. For our own part we have never seen the bottom of it covered yet with epistolary communications. It is so deep, however, that a poor little mouse which found its way therein this afternoon can not get out again of its own accord. If it expects to exist on correspondence to the editor, we fear it will not endure long, unless the cookery question is revived again, which we have no desire to see.

The ninth and final competition at Greymouth for the Cup presented by R. Nancarrow, Esq., Mayor, and the watch presented by J. G. Thomas, Esq., ex Mayor, took place on the range on Friday and Saturday last, when it was won for the third time by Gunner Blaxall, of the Navals, Volunteer Brimble of the Rifles being second. The Cup having to be won by the same person three times before becoming his property, falls to Gunner Blaxall, of the Navals, the watch going to Bandsman Badger, of the Rifles, with the highest average in the different competitions.

The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press, writing on the 30th ult., says:—"l learn that Mr Barton, Commissioner re Native Lands, has already discovered several very unsatisfactory transactions in land sharking with Native lands, the Maoris having been defrauded of every farthing of the money due to them. Some reputed sales are declared wholly void.—Only a few Bills are as yet printed for the session. Several Consolidation Bills are nearly ready, including Defence and Constabulary, Municipal Corporations, Criminal Code, Mines, &c." At the Supreme Court, Wellington, a rule nisi calling upon Mr E. Shaw, barrister and solicitor, to show why he should not be removed from the roll, was struck out, his Honor holding that it was not sufficient cause.

At the Lyttelton R.M. Court on Wednesday last (before Mr Ollivier), Arthur Robert Rannage Howard (of severed hand fame) was charged with escaping from gaol on the 26th hist. Mr o'Brien° the Gaoler, and the warders proved the escape and capture of Howard. Howard said he did not mean to run away, but simply to go to see his child, who was unwell : he would afterwards have returned. His Worship said that as the prisoner was not yet convicted he would defer sentence.

j W. J. M'llroy and Co., Main street, Kumara, beg to announce that they are purchasers of gold.— [Advt.] "You Don't Know Their 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 Robbery 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