The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3059, 23 August 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1886.

The Alameda, with the San Francisco mails, arrived at Auckland yesterday morning. She sailed for Syduey at daylight this morning. The Hinemoa left with the Southern mails yesterday. Mrs R. J. Seddon was a passenger by the Christchurch coach on Saturday afternoon. Mr Seddon, we are pleased to learn, is improving in health. He will arrive by Wednesday's coach, accompanied by Mr Edward Seddon, a brother, who has just arrived, via Melbourne, from the Old Country. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at which accounts amounting to .£77 6s 2d were passed for payment. A report of the meeting will be given in next issue. Commander Edwin wired at 1.25 p.m. to-day—" Bad weather may be expected between north and east and south, east within ten hours from now; glass falling again, and rain." Intelligence has been received from Jackson's Bay of the death by drowning of a young man named William Porter, formerly a resident of that district. It seems, the Times reports, that Porter, in company with another young man named St. Lawrence, came to the coast from Otago via the Haast Pass. They then went to the Bay, and stayed for a day or two. Porter left to see about some cattle he had left at the Jackson's, leaving the Bay for the station on July 29th. As he did not return on the day expected, search was made for him, and at length' the horse he was riding was met with. From its appearance it was conjectured that the unfortunate rider had been drowned, and search was made on the banks of the Jackson's and Arawata rivers for several days, which resulted in the body being found, wedged in some rocks, on the sth of this month. It was at once taken to the bay and interred. It it of course not known how the deceased met with his death, though, as heavy rain set in almost immediately after he left, it is supposed the horse was carried off his feet in the flood, and the rider washed out of the saddle. Mr Porter was a former resident of the Bay and also of Hokitika. He was lately a commercial traveller, and in that capacity visited this town eighteen months ago. His father, who is a Presbyterian minister in Auckland, was also formerly a resident in this town and of the Bay. The deceased was about 24 years of age. With regard to Mr Richardson Rae's "Poncillings by Laud and Sea," several chapters of which have appeared in the West Coast Times, it is stated that every effort is being made to issue these papers, when completed, in a manner creditable to the West Coast. The book, in type, size and binding, will exactly resemble one of "Routledge's Pocket Library'' series, and will be issued to the public at cost price. Arrangements have been made to send an edition to London. Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract.—Cure of Skin Diseases. Invercargill, N.Z., 3rd of July, 1880. Messrs Sander and Sons, Sandhurst .•—Gentlemen.—Having suffered from eczema (a skin disease which is very prevalent in this colony) for about nine years, I had consulted numerous medical men here and in Australia, and had taken arsenic, strychnine, iodide of potassium, etc., internally, and had used preparations of sine and lead externally. la fact, I had iiiodallthove'.'.i.nlit l .? known to the faculty, ] ami what between traveling, doctors' and druggists' bills, had spent a small fortune, lamost, if not wholly, without results, except to injure my constitution. During a recent visit to Hckitik-i. I ua-t recommended to try your Extract Eucalyptus Globulus by a brother who had experienced great benefit from it in alleviating a very severe cold, and no less to my smpri&e than satisfaction, I found the disease which troubled me sn lon-r was cou'iueral, and the skin resumed its normal condition. This was effected by ■ • 'i:e 'if 'ess :\:ni fwj Uv<>(.r.i.ce littles. Von are welcome to make any uso you plea»e ul this letter, and I

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