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Kumara Times, Issue 3033, 23 July 1886, Page 2

CA.loKllig i ill IICIIIICIIU. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council was held in the Town Hall last evening. The ordinary annual rate of Is in the £ was struck, same to be payable on the 14th of next month. Tenders (of which there were twelve) for felling timber on the Borough Keserve, sections I and 2, were considered in committee, and the tenders of D. Louis for both sections were accepted. Accounts to the amount of £lB3 11s 8d were passed for payment. A fuller report of the meeting will be given in to-morrow’s issue. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before J. Giles, Esq., R.M., a judgment summons, Jean Spindeler v. H. Hope, was heard, the amount claimed being £7 14s 6d. Defendant was ordered to pay 5s a week, with the alternative, in default, of three weeks’ imprisonment. At the Warden’s Court to-day, before J. Giles, Esq., Warden, there were only two mining applications set down for hearing. The application of Henry Richards and party to connect with sludge-channel No. 1, which had been postponed for the Race Manager’s consent, was withdrawn.—Richard Rothwcll and party applied for an extended claim at Larrikins, which was granted with the consent of the objector, in conformity with plan attached thereto. Mr D. Hannan appeared for the applicants in both cases. Commander Edwin wired yesterday, at 3.51 p.m.—“Bad weather may be expected after 1G hours from -now between north and east and south-east, and rain ; glass further fall.” A meeting of the Grey Valley Miner’s Association was held on Tuesday night, in the Good Templars Hall, Brunnerton, for the purpose of appointing a doctor for the miners. There were three applicants, and the result of the voting was as follows ; Dr. Foote, Wellington ... 28 Dr. Smith, Greymouth ... 8 Dr. Monckton, Kumara ... 5 Dr. Foote, therefore, was elected. A large number refrained from voting. The Auckland Herald reports that Dr. T. G. Davy is about to commence practice at the Thames. The chess match (by telegraph) between the Auckland and Napier Chess Clubs was concluded on Saturday, Kith hist. The Herald says the result was rather unsatisfactory, owing to a dispute having

arisen between Mr Jacobsen (Napier) and Mr Ryder (Auckland), the upshot of which was that the umpire for Napier (Mr Stewart) resigned. Two games only were finished at midnight, and these were won by Auckland. With regard to the unfinished games the play was in favour of Auckland, but the Auckland captain notißed Napier that his team declined to proceed, owing to the unpleasantness referred to above. A Mauawatu paper says :—"The Pink Terraces having disappeared, the Telegraph Department has resolved to perpetuate their memory in the new telegraph forms. The latter are also likely to disappear by an eruption of the Press." The West Coast Times reports that Mr J. P. Klein (late of the Evening Star) left last evening on a rather extended tour. He proceeded with some friends in a buggy to Humphreys Gully, from whence he was to go alone and on foot to Canterbury, via Browning's Pass. On getting into settled districts he will go to Melbourne and from thence make his way to China, intending to see plenty of the world before he finally settles down. We regret, says the Marlborough Express of a recent date, to hear that Mr Charles Redwood has sustained a severe loss in the death of his thoroughbred entire Sir George. A cart horse got into the same paddock, and kicked it so severely as to break a leg short off. Sir George had of course to be destroyed. Its racing career was rather celebrated, for it won the Wanganui Cup, and did the fastest time on record for a three-year-old in Canterbury. H. Goulston and Co. are now holding a monster sale to make room for the spring goods. We would advise the people to see the bargains and judge for themselves as they are really cheap. The sale will continue for three weeks only.—[Advt.] Wicked tor 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.C.U.S.A.