The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1886

Kumara Times, Issue 2977, 18 May 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1886

Wo give in this issue lengthy particulars of the lion. Mr Gladstone’s Irish Home Bute Bill, portions of the debate on the scheme, and opinions of the British and Continental Cress on the question. It will bo seen by a cablegram today that the division on the Bill is expected to be taken on Friday next. A cablegram from Madrid this afternoon states that her Majesty the Queen Begent was safely delivered of a son yesterday. A London cablegram state? that instructions have been forwarded to Admiral Tryr-n to formally annex the Kermadcc Islands, which are 400 miles north of New Zealand,

The reception of the Rev. T. Hodgson, Church of England minister, will take place at the Theatre Royal this evening. The ladies of Holy Trinity congregation have been busily employed the last few days in preparing comforts incidental to the occasion, and these will be found in great profusion when the hour arrives for guests to take their seats at the several tea-tables, which is appointed to be at half-past six o’clock. One of the tables, of which there will be six, is designated the “bachelors’table,” and will be presided over by young ladies who are most if not all yet in their ’teens and beauty. This will assuredly be well patronised. The other five will be presided over by the more elderly ladies of the church, to whom the dispensing of such favours is an every-day domestic comfort and pleasure. After tea there will probably be some short speeches, but the principal part of the entertainment is to consist of the rendering of anthems, solos, duetts, and recitations, under the presidency of Mr T. Burns, of Stafford, and to perfect in which assiduous practice has been given by certain local amateurs for some days. A large number of tickets have been sold, and, the weather being fine, there is every prospect of a large attendance. Twenty-one applications for certificates authorising the issue of publicans’ licenses within the borough have been lodged with the Clerk of Licensing Committee, J. M‘Ennis, Esq., also, one application for a bottle license. They will be dealt with at the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee, which is appointed to be held at the Court House, Kumara, on Monday, the 7th June, at 12 o’clock noon.

The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Trustees takes place at the Town Hall this evening, at eight o’clock. Mr Kean, of the Adelphi accommodation house, Greenstone, desires us to say, for the information of intending visitors to Greenstone to-morrow evening, that ample coach room will be provided, the vehicles leaving Rugg’s and the National hotels at eight o’clock.

The original quadrille assembly will meet at the Public Hall, Hillman’s Town, to-morrow evening.

The Hillman Town quadrille assembly will meet at the Empire Rooms to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock. At the sittings of the Htstrict Court, Hokitika, yesterday, Heinrich Dencker, for fraudulent bankruptcy, in not disclosing the amount of his property, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty, averring that the accused had no intention to commit fraud.

The richest of the many rich pieces of quartz exhibited in Westport in now (says the Westport Times of Friday last) in possession of Mr Horne, the Manager of the Great Republic Company. ° This specimen was picked up in the Company’s lease at Stoney Creek. It is a pleasure to look at it. For the sake of the plucky shareholders we hope there is much more where it came from.

Poverty and Suffering. —“I was dragged down with debt, poverty, and suffering for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctoring, which did them no good. I was completely discouraged, until one year ago, by the advice of my pastor, 1 procured Hop Bitters, and commenced their use, and in one month we were all well, and none of us have seen a sick day since ; and I want to say to all poor men, you can keep your families well a year with American Co’s Hop Bitters for less than one doctor’s visit will cost. I know it.”—A Working Man. Read