The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2996, 10 June 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1886.

An accident to the machinery is our apology to subscribers for the late delivery of the paper this evening. Mount Ruawahica, which is near Lake Tarawera, in the North Island, is in active eruption, and great alarm has taken hold of the residents for miles around. And not without cause, it would seem from a telegram from our Wellington correspondent, for a schoolmaster, 1 his wife, and four children and a number of Maoris have been burned by the falling and fallen lava, whilst the fine particles of pumice-stone and smoke have so filled the atmosphere as to darken the whole country for miles around. The Grey River Argus published the following further particulars this afternoon :—A terrible volcanic eruption occurred at Mount Tarawera, Rotomahana, at midnight, and a vast quantity of lava was thrown a great height. All the country round about is now as dark as midnight, and a great quantity of ashes are falling. Tauranga is in darkness, and the inhabitants at Rotorua are fleeing in all directions. The explosions were felt in Auckland, Wellington, and Blenheim. The Native Minister has received a telegram to the effect that the house of Mr Hasaard schoolmaster at Wairoa, near Tarawera, was struck by lightning, and the whole family killed except the two eldest daughters, who were rescued by Mr Linden. Blue mud is boiling up everywhere. M'Rae's hotel has been completely wrecked, and one tourist is missing. Several natives have lost their lives, but the exact number is not known. The Government agent has left with a relief party. The'ordinary meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening. The adjourned meeting of miners intending to sluice into the No. 2 sludgechannel will be held in tlje Public Hall, Dillman's Town, at eight o'clock this evening. Members of the German Society are requested to meet at the Lodge Room, Kumara, to-morrow, at half-past one o r clock in the afternoon, to pay a last tribute of respect to their departed countryman, licinricli Bnhmann, whose remains are to be interred in the Kuirara Cemetery during the afternoon. The Union Company and Black Diamond Line steamer Koranui's departure from Dunedin for West Coast ports has beeu postponed until Sunday, 13th iust., instead of Wednesday, 9th, as previously notified. It is rumoured that his Excellency Sir William Jervois holds strong views on the extreme importance nf securing Rapa the " Malta of the Pacific." The Kumara quadrille club will hold their usual weekly assembly at the A del- j phi Theatre, to-morrow evening, at eight j o'clock. j

Tlie following are the tenders received by the Public Works Department for the Greymouth wharf extension contract : Accepted—Thompson and Ross, Greymouth, black birch, £11,219; ironbark, £11,219 j Declined-M. O'Connor, Greymouth, black birch, £11,400; ironbark, £11,737 ; Perotti and Fraser, Greymouth, black birch, £11,720 ; ironbark, £12,270 ; Hungerford and M'Kay, Greymouth, black birch, £11,765 ; ironbark, £12,720; J. M'Lean and Sons, Wellington, black birch, £12,602; ironbark, £11,374; J. Maher, Hokitika, black birch, £13,125 ; ironbark, £14,235; Price and Clarke, Greymouth, for ironbark only, £13,706 ; J. Whittaker and Co., Dunedin, black birch, £14,010; ironbark, i 14,327 ; Sutherland and Nelson, Port Chalmers, ironbark only, ill, 699 ; A. Bain, Dunedin, ill, 741; J. M'Cormick, Dunedin, £13,118; W. J. Reynolds, Hokitika, £14,324. By a very heavy blast which was fired in the Cobden quarry on Monday evening, shortly before seven o'clock, every house in Greymouth was shaken, and the roar of falling rocks could be heard for about half a minute. Lovely Climes. There are lovely climes and places in which the evening zephyrs are loaded with malaria and the poison of fever and epidemics. To dwell there in health is impossible without a supply of Hop Bitters at hand. These American Co. 's Bitters impart an equalizing strength to the system, and prevent the accumulation of deadly spores of contagion. Be sure and see Malarial Fever. Malarial fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgic ailmeuts yield readily to this great disease conqueror, American Co. 's Hop Bitters. It repairs the ravages of disease by converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new life and vigour to the aged and infirm. See