The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3030, 20 July 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1886.

There is good prospect of the collapse to the No. 2 channel being speedily remedied. Meetings of parties interested in the working of the sludge-channels were held on Saturday on Monday evenings. At the former meeting, the offer of Mr Wm. Morris to repair the No. 2 channel for £SO was accepted, and last night Mr Charles Goodwin was elected to manage the work at the upper end of the block. As both parties are making good progress, it is hoped all who have been retarded will be enabled to l-esume work in a day or two. The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Trustees will be held in the Town Hall at eight o'clock this evening. It is rumoured that another interesting case will occupy the attention of the Supreme Court at its sitting in September. This is said to be a breach of promise of marriage. We give the rumour for what it is worth. A school-mistress resigned at the last meeting of the Nelson Education Board, for "reasons over which she had no control." She was going to sacrifice herself at the marriage altar ! We (Argus) regret to learn that Mr John Corr, merchant, Westport, died yesterday. He was a very old resident, and took a prominent load in all matters tending to promote the advancement of the district. Westport has, by his death, lost an enterprising citizen. He was a member of the Improvement Committee in Grey mouth twenty years ago, carrying on business under the style of Smythe ;md Co. We (Westport Times, July 16) hnve a chapter of accidents to report from Waimangaroa. A well - known miner named Henderson, employed at the Koivinui had one of his legs broken, on .Monday afternoon, by a fall of coal in the mine. Dr. Gaze went out by trolly at 0 p.m., and set the limb. An accident also occurred on the Westport Coal Company's incline;. The wire rope broke, and a loaded cruck got away, inflicting slight injury ny.m John Lester. The third accident wa3 a comparatively trivial

one : An old lady, Mrs Griffiths, tripped in the points near the Korauui shoots, foil, and sustained some nasty cuts about the face. Captain Patrick, of the Salvation Army Flying Brigade, arrived here to-day, to make arrangements for services to be held in the Theatre Royal to commence next Saturday night. Owing to the want of inducement the Union Company's s.s. Tekapo has been withdrawn from the proposed Kimberley trip. If there is more encouragement a month hence she will be again put on the berth. The Dillman Town quadrille assembly will meet at the Empire Rooms to-morrow evening, at eight o'clock. It is stated that the 440 yards race between "Tommy" O'Loughlin and Hunt, alias Campbell, in Sydney a few days ago, resulted in the defeat of the former by a yard and a half. It will be remembered that these two peds met some time ago on the Grey racecourse at the same distance, when O'Loughlin beat his opponent easily. "Puff" in the Wellington Evening Press thus alludes to the disclosures recently made with regard to the volunteer emigration agents : "Collin Allan gone to Skye on full pay and expenses paid to try and influence the crofters to come to New Zealand! Jolly piece of humbug! Dodge to get a loafing trip, that's all! The crofters won't come ! They'd rather starve in Skye than thrive in New Zealand! Let 'em stop where they are then ! New Zealand emigration agent destitute in London! Loafing on Dillon Bell! That's the way to get farmers with capital to come to New Zealand! Like baiting a mouse-trap with a dead mouse !" Wicked for Clergymen.—"l believe it to be all wrong and even wicked for clergymen or other public men to be led into giving testimonials to quack doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but when a really meritorious article is made up of common valuable remedies known to all, and that all physicians use and trust in daily, we should freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily commend Hop Bitters for the good they have done me and my friends, firmly believing they have no equal for family use. I will not be without them."—Rev. , Washington, D.CU.S.A.