The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2980, 21 May 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1886.

Reuter's London agent, no doubt acting UDder advice of some infatuated lovers of cricket, is again commencing to deluge us with lengthy accounts of the Australian cricket matches in the Home country. We are admirers of the game of ciicket, and have taken some interest in years past in reading the accounts of the prowess of the Australians in their contests with Home teams. But this news now lacks its former interest, and besides, there are many of our readers who take no interest whatever in cricket, and we regret, for their sakes and our own, that we have to pay such large sums weekly for this kind of cablegraphic information. But this is not the worst feature of the arrangement. Whilst • the more important political and social questions which have ever agitated the public mind of the present generation are being discussed at Home, or if any alarming fatality occurs, the substance ia compressed into one-fourth or onefifth of the words of one day's news about a three or four days' cricket match. Thus, on Monday, the complete cablegraphic account of the match •between Lord Sheffield's team and the Australians occupied over a column of space, whilst the report of a meeting of Liberals and Radicals on the Home Rule Bill was compressed into five lines. To-day we have a third message of the Nottingham match, which ends with the insipid intelligence that the match was drawn on account of rain stopping play the first day, news which any cricketer was prepared to expectand not a word at the same hour either political or social. We might adduce scores of other equally absurd comparisons. We have veiy Hi tie doubt that most of our contemporaries will agiee with us iu this matter. Of course whilst we are connected with the Reuler agency, we have to take such messages, and i.ll, as are supplied to this and other join nals connected with the agency; but we would suggest that our contemporaries should take some action in this matter. The simple result of a grand cricket match is sufficient, we believe, for most readers.

The contract for the No. 2 sludgechannel being now completed and its connection with No. 1 channel effected, the work will this afternoon bo formally handed over by the contractors to the promoters of the No. 2 channel. The boxes are not yet connected, but this cannot be done until the piping is laid for supplying water to Ihe No. 1 channel below the junction of the new one. We again draw attention to Mr Hall's (dentist's) advertisement, Mr Wilson

(Mr Hall's partner) has now arrived, and may be consulted at Stewart's Hotel for a short time only ; so it behoves those in need of the dentist's aid to waste no time. Mr Wilson guarantees his work, and makes no charge unless satisfaction is given. Mr Wilson does not recommend the wholesale extraction of teeth, but rather the remedying the defects caused by decay, by stopping, or the substitution of artificial crowns. The latter, technically known as pivoting, is a branch of the dentist's art which Mr Wilson makes a specialty of, and has this fact in its favour that the patient suffers no inconvenience and does not feel the teeth are artificial, nor do they look so. Mr Wilson administers laughing gas, under the influence of which teeth can be painlessly extracted, and intends paying regular visits to Kumara, Hokitika being his head-quarters.

A quadrille assembly assembly will be held in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening.

Commander Edwin wired at 12.26 p.m. to-day—"lndications of frost or very cold to-night."

In consequence of the generally expressed favour with which Mr Rae's " Pencilling by Land and Sea " has been received by the reading public, and urged by the solicitations of his friends, the Times says Mr Rae has determined, when finished, to publish them in a complete form. The volume will be Bvo. half-cloth, nicely bound, and will be dedicated to the Hon. Robert Stout.

One of the most striking ceremonies of the Catholic Church, the assumption of the black veil by four sisters of St. Columbkille's Convent, took place at St. Mary's Church, Hokitika, on Tuesday morning last. The celebrant was the Right Rev. Bishop Redwood, assisted by the Revs. Fathers Martin, Ahearn, Walshe, and Carew. The names of the sisters are Sister Mary Gertrude, Sister Mary Saviour, Sister Mary Ignatius, and Sister Mary Ita. The church was crowded during the ceremony, which lasted over two hours. During its continuance, the Sisters of St. Columbkille's Convent sang with great effect.

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