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Kumara Times, Issue 2991, 4 June 1886, Page 2

The division last ntght on Mr Montgomery’s no-confidence motion resulted in giving the Government a majority of 16. The motion that the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question was carried by 44 to 28. It is expected that that Public Works Statement v. HI imt he delivered before the end of next week at the earliest. A late cablegram from London states that in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr Gladstone announced that he hoped

to be able to come to a division on the Home Rule Bill by Monday next. A sad accident befel Mr J. W. Martin, late contractor for the No. 2 sludgechannel, last night. After attending the meeting, in Dillman’s Town, of miners intending to sluice into the No. 2 channel, he proceeded homewards on the narrow track between two high-faced claims from which poor Rynning recently fell and lost his life. Martin had provided himself with a candle, but the night was otherwise dark and boisterous. Between four and five o’clock cries were heard by some of Jones and party’s men, who were at work on a night shift, and on search being made, Martin was found lying disabled, but conscious, near to where Rynning had previously met his death. He was conveyed to Peters’ Dillman’s Town Hotel. Mr Evison was sent for and promptly arrived at about five o’clock. He found Martin had sustained a stellated scalp wound, lacerated and contused, besides being much shaken. Healing remedies were applied, and at about noon the patient was taken down to the Hokitika Hospital in an express. The sculling race between Bubear and Nelson on the Thames yesterday was won by the former, by three lengths. Spofforth, the Australian bowler, has dislocated the third finger of his right right, and will be disabled from playing for three weeks. Another change has been made in the Police Department here. Sergeant Keating is promoted to Waimate, and Sergeant Watson, of Ross, will take charge here. The latter has already arrived. The Times reports that Sergeant Watson is replaced by Constable Hendrick, and Constable Palamountain, of Greymouth, goes to Rimu. All these officers are well esteemed in the force and by the public, and the three first named have been connected with the police in Westland for a great number of years. The Union Company’s steamer Knranui left Greymouth yesterday morning between nine and ten o’clock for Wellington, Dunedin, and intermediate ports. She had a full passenger list, there being 26 for Kimberley, who would leave her at Wellington and tranship to one of the Company’s steamers trading to Sydney, of which there are two. The Argus gives the list of passengers for Kimberley, via Australian ports, as follows :—Messrs Timothy Simpson, George Mansfield, Henry Jones, Thomas Bath, William Mills, Edward Nelsson, William Werry, John Graham, Hugh M'Donald, Charles Hudson, J. F. Foster, John M'Entee, P. Lawlor, Patrick Leamy, Patrick O’Brien, Owen Coll, Michael Hurley, George Cook, George Robinson, John Miller, and Malcolm Graham. In our notice last evening of the performances at the St. Leons’ Circus on Wednesday night, the words “trapeze acts ” should have read double and single “somersaults.” The Circus arrived in Greymouth last evening, and was to have appeared in Brunnerton, but it appears that a cage with a couple of wild animals broke down at Marsden hill, and had to be left behind, so that this interfered with the possibility of playing at Brunnerton, but it is expected they will play there to-night. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the “ Chic ” entertainment was postponed till this evening, at half-past eight o’clock. A quadrille assembly will be held at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening. Mr G. A, Sala says that if he had not visited Nelson, in New Zealand, and j ’ ’ Honolulu, he would have said that Ceylon was the most beautiful place in the world. The Canterbury Times of Saturday, sth June, it is announced, will contain long accounts and full details of the Kimberley goldfield, and a first-class map of the locality. Intending subscribers should make immediate application to Mr S. M. Spiers. An Englishman in Madras has, by a lucky accident, made a photograph of a tiger iu the act of seizing its prey. The camera was focussed on a buffalo tied to a stake some thirty feet off, and had just received a dry plate when a tiger leaped from the jungle and struck down the buffalo with a single blow. The operator kept his presence of mind and released the shutter before taking to his heels. The negative proved a poor one, but showed the relative attitudes of the tiger and buffalo pretty well, and confirmed the generally accepted opinion that the tiger, with a knock-down blow, endeavours to dislocate the neck of his victim. We believe that if everyone would use American Co.’s Hop Bitters freely there would be much less sickness and misery iu the world, and people arc fast finding this out, whole families keeping well at a trifling cost by its use. We advise all to • try it. Read