The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3061, 25 August 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1886.

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour. Mr R. J. Seddon, M.H.R., and Mr Edward Seddon, his brother, also Messrs Dimant and Mitchell, were passengers. The St. Kilda, with the San Francisco mails on board, arrived off the Grey bar on the early morning tide to-day, but the bar being then too rough she turned back to Westport, and the mails cannot now be landed before to-morrow; and not then, if the gale now blowing continues. The parishioners and many friends and well-wishers of the Rev. Father Walshe will be glad to hear that he has so far recovered that, under the direction of his medical adviser, Dr. M'Brearty, he was able to undertake a drive into the country yesterday. A meeting of the No. 2 Sludge-channel Trustees was held at Dillman's Town last evening, at which the tenders for maintaining and extending and keeping the channel clear contracts were opened and dealt with. Thore were eleven tenders for the maintenance and extension contract, which was acquired by Lawson and party, the lowest, the price being £770 for maintenance, and £3B 10s per chain for extension and tramway. There were six tenders for the keeping channel clear contract, which fell to C. Hood and party, the amount being £l4B a year ; sums to be deducted, pro rata, during the time the channel is idle. We purpore publishing the amounts of the other tenders in next issue. The adjourned meeting of the Hospital Trustees for the consideration of tenders for building and fencing on the Hospital Reserve was held at the Town Hall last evening; present—The Chairman, the Vice-Chairman, and Messrs Ziegler, Maloney, and Wooldridge. Six tenders were received—three for building the house for the Surgeon-Superintendent, and three for fencing the ground. For the house, the tender of G. A. Bell was accepted, the amount being £323 19s lid. Declined: H. Johnson, £334 10s ; T. Oliver, £361. Mr R. Toms was the successful tenderer for the fencing contract; the price will be made known when the tender is signed. The "Farewell to the Flying Brigade" of the Salvation Army will take place in the Theatre Royal this evening, on which occasion a "Hallelujah Free and Easy and Monster Coffee Supper " will be held. The proceedings are to be conducted by Captain Aston, Lieut. Ellis, and the Hokitika Congress Contingent, who, we understand, leave to-morrow for Christchurch to attend the Salvation Army Colonial Congress, to be held in that city early next month. By reports from the "War Cry" which have lately appeared in this journal, the Flying Brigade, under Captain Pattrick and Lieut. Kemp, the officers-in-charge, are to be credited with having done some good in this town by reclaiming young men from vice and sin, and, as Holy Scripture saith, "There is joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth," the Brigade will have accomplished good \vnr\< ; and certainly tliev hn.\i.'. doily ii'< harm. Their meetings lia\e luteli conducted orderly ; and while to some their mode of worship may seem

eccentric and even irreverent, that is the peculiar characteristic of the Salvation Army, in order to strike out as it were a new line of reaching the courts of vice and sin, and the hearts of those who have sunk deep in iniquity. The proceedings commence this evening at a quarter to eight o'clock. The admission will be one shilling, and there is to be no collection. The fire-bell rang out a few notes of warning at about a quarter to six o'clock last evening. The cause of alarm proved to exist in a chimney at the English Parsonage. The Fire Brigade turned out promptly with their engine and hose, and with their assistance and that of those kind neighbours who had preceded them, the fire was subdued before any further damage was done ; elsewhere the Rev. Mr Hodgson thanks them for their prompt and generous efforts. Commander Edwin wired to-day, at 10.52 a.m.—"Bad weather may be expected and a heavy gale between west and south and south-east; glass rise fast, and weather much colder." Mr Wilson, the dentist, has arrived, and may be consulted at Stewart's Hotel, as advertised. We regret to say that the efforts to restore animation to the child of Mr Keenan, which slipped into a pool of water a few inches deep at Springfield yesterday, proved unavailing. Information is being laid by the proprietor of the Ross Advocate and Guardian, against David Curie, proprietor of the Hokitika Guardian and Evening Star, for writing to Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co., the eminent colonial firm of watch manufacturers, in such a strain as to give them to understand that the Ross Advocate and Guardian had ceased publication, and soliciting the advertisement which the firm has been advertising with the Ross paper for the last three years. Plaintiff claims £SOO damages. Easily Proven.—lt is easily proven that malarial fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgic ailments yield readily to this great diseaseconqueror, American Co.'s Hop Bitters. It repairs the ravages of disease by converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new life and vigor to the aged and infirm always. See