The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3014, 1 July 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1886.

The East and West Coast Railway Act Amendment Bill passed through Committee yesterday. There is a majority of 13 in favour of the bill. Clause 102 of the Comities Bill has been amended so that no extraordinary business can be transacted at ordinary meetings without ten days' notice in writing being sent to each member. Mr Bevan, M.H.R., telegraphed to the Hon. Secretary of the Hokitika Railway League yesterday, to the effect that himself and Mr Guinness were, and had throughout been the only West Coast advocates for the direct Hokitika and Greymouth line ; but that Messrs Bonar, M.L.C., and Seddon, M.H.R., were advocates for the deviation. At the inquest held yesterday on the body of Mr Trice, late harbourmaster at Hokitika, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, to Lhe effect that the deceased died from sanguineous apoplexy. New telegraph forms (pink) came into use at all telegraph offices to-day. We fail to see what the object is in having pink forms, which will try the eyesight of telegraphists, sub-editors, .and compositors sorely at night time. The paper is a little smoother to write upon : that is all the improvement. Te "Whiti has turned the Tarawera eruptions to account to work on the superstitious fears of his followers. He has announced (according to a Northern paper) that anyone accepting re.nt from the Government will be swallowed up by a coming volcano outburst. Messrs Holmes and Co. are now running a coach daily each way between Kumara and Hokitika, stopping to take up passengers at Goldsborough and Stafford. The coach leaves Rugg's stables at 8 a.m., returning from Hokitika at 2.30 p.m. Professor WcodroiTe and his lady assistant glassblowerv. nnd workers exhibited to mm?..to-:! a'l-l'oriiv.s in the A-ilibavton Tiir:! H;.!l on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They exhibit in Ohristehurch dili-iu!j this wsek,

The Kumara quadrille club will hold their usual weekly assembly at the Adelphi Theatre, at eight o'clock to-morrow evening. The following are the latest figures of the strength of the French army. They are taken from the book, "Avant la Bataille !" which was published a week or two ago by the "Patriotic League," and has been a sort of nine days' wonder in Paris. There are eighteen corps d'armes, comprising 450 battalions of infantry, 153 squadrons of cavalry, and 324 batteries. The total effective force is said to be : Officers, 18,738; men, 671,292; horses, 200,092 ; guns, 1944 ; carriages, 38,754. Benefactors. eminent physicians and chemists announced the discovery that by combining some well-known valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which would cure such a wide range of diseases that most all other remedies could be dispensed with, many were sceptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubts, and to-day the discoverers of that great medicine, Dr. Soule's American Co.'s Hop Bitters, are honoured and blessed by all as benefactors. Read