The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2944, 7 April 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1886.

The steamer Pelham, with the San Francisco mails on board, arrived at Greymouth at about eleven o'clock this morning, and the Kumara portion of the mail will be brought up by this evening's tram, and, with the usual courtesy of the local postmaster, will be sorted, and delivered in town, with delivery at the window from 7 to 8 p.m. There is no alteration that we are aware of in the programme published by us on the Ist inst. of the intended movements of Bishop Redwood. His lordship is expected to arrive this evening by tram from Greymouth, which is due at halfpast six o'clock. He will be met at the station by the reception committee, and conducted to the Catholic Presbytery, and at 8 p.m. will attend St. Patrick's Church, where an address of welcome will be presented to him.

Commander Edwin wired at 1 p.m.— " There are indications that to-night will be very cold."

The coach hence yesterday morning for Christchurch could not ford the flooded rivers, and did not, therefore, arrive at the Bealey last night. Mr Cassidy started from the Bealey at 8 this morning to meet Arthur Davis, and has returned again to that township, so that the coach and mails may be looked for here at about 7 or 8 p.m. The meeting of the Easter Fete Committee which was to have been held on Monday evening lapsed for want of a quorum, owing no doubt to the fact of there being a meeting in connection with the sludge-channel on the same night.

We regret to learn that there is no change for the better in the condition of Dr. MacCarthy, who has now been over a week in a semi-conscious state.

A sudden and extraordinary disablement is reported by the Argus to have occurred yesterday to Mr James Jones, proprietor of the billiard room in Mackay street. He was in his usual state of health on the previous day, but yesterday morning he was found helpless from a paralytic stroke, which has disabled one side entirely.

A correspondent writing from Pariuo- a informs the West Coast Times that on the 18th March, a case of a serious nature, occurred at that place which very nigh terminated fatally. While Mr Robert Power was riding down the river in search of cattle, he was pursued by another resident, who gave him a cowardly and treacherous blow and knocked him off his horse, where he lay unconscious when found by some neighbours, with his spine very much injured and some of his ribs broken, besides several bruises about his neck and face. He was carried to Mrs Stephenson's homestead, where ho lay delirious and in a critical condition for four days, when he was able to bo removed to his own residence. He is now progressing slowly towards recovery. The case is to be put in the hands of the police.

Saturday morning's Wellington Times states that it is reliably informed that Mr Mouteath will stand for Inangahua against all-comers.

The season having returned again when long and cold nights suggest physical exercise for the body iu preference to artificial heat from the fireside, the former being far more conducive to health when proper precautions are taken to afterwards keep out the cold, the lvumara and Dillman's Town quadrille assemblies will now open for the season—the Kumara Assembly at the Adelphi Hall, to-morrow night, and the Dillman's Assembly at the Public Hall, on Friday night, bnih at ei::ht o-1.-k.

...i.. .......n. > Mt :i ',•■)!.■.•.iev .i S:iop uoxi to Scanlan's Hotel in Great King street, Dimedin, caught fire late on Saturday

evening, 27th ult. The alarm was given and the Fire Brigade turned out promptly. Several of the men climbed up on the verandah of the shop in order to get at the chimney, but unfortunately, it gave way, bringing down all the men, two of whom—Butler and Hardie—were injured. The former sprained his ankle, while the latter hurt his finger as well as spraining his ankle.

Concerning the electrical phenomena which passed over New Zealand on Tuesday night the 30th ult., some particulars of which were given in last evening's issue, the Commissioner of Telegraphs reported : —" The currents appeared almost simultaneously throughout the colony. From Blenheim to Auckland the current was from south to north, and from Christchurch to Dunedin the current was north to south. The special features were its sudden appearance, the strength, its appearance over a large extent so rapidly, and the constancy of the currents in one direction. It also affected the Australian and New Zealand cable from west to east."

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