The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3093, 1 October 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1886.

The Resident Magistrate's Court was occupied nearly all morning with hearing evidence and professional argument, before J. Giles, Esq., R.M., in the case of the amended suit Rudkin v. Eleanor Reid, for balance of account amounting to £l3 10s, heard last Court day. To-day Mr Guinness appeared for plaintiff; Mr M. Hannan for defendant (who pleaded the Statute of Limitations). Tlis Worship reserved his decision till next Court day. Commander Kdwin wired to-day, at 12.r0 p.m.—"Bad weather is expected between west and south and south-east; glass rise ; indications bad." The Post is responsible for the following extraordinary paragraph:—"Many Wellington people will remember Mr E. H. Tate, formerly of the Union Bank in this city, and for a Jong time a prominent member of St. Peter's vestry. He afte*'V.VU'd.i i'!ll!l(!\..-i'. trv TilV T.-n ■••./ .-..,*. ■-..!

uiL-.j p wiuii ivjLi- 'iuyinas Mali. Recent disclosures in connection with the

latter individual hiive served to unpleasantly recall the melancholy death of Mr Tate some six years ago, when he was found lying in a paddock under circumstances which suggested that he had, in a moment of temporary aberration of intellect, yielded to the pressure of financial embarassments, and sought release from them and from existence together by taking poison. Mr Tate's whole life and conduct were so opposed to the idea that he had committed self-destruction that great numbers of his friends absolutely refused to believe that his death was due to his own act. The number of those who doubt whether poison was selfadministered is now largely increased." The cleaning up of the Welcome Company, Reefton, took place on Monday, after three weeks' crushing, giving a yield of 588ozs. ldwt. of gold. The directors declared a dividend of 3s per scrip, equal to £2250.

A terrible explosion has occurred at the Atlantic Dynamite Company's Works, M'Cainsville, New Jersey. Of ten men who were in the mixing-house, no recognisable fragment has been found, and a dozen others were wounded. The concussion was felt twenty miles away, and much glass was broken within a radius of five miles.

A man named Goodey, who was working on the roof of the two storeyed building, which is being erected as a residence for Mr Moss Jonas, of Timaru, slipped and fell to the ground. He was at once picked up and conveyed in a trap to his residence, where he was attended to by Drs. Hogg and Lovegrove, who found that he had several of his ribs broken, and that his body was very much bruised. His injuries were so severe that he died at 10 o'clock the same evening. In his "Greater Britain," written in 1869, Sir Charles Dilke wrote:-"It is not certain that North Australia may not be found to yield gold in plenty. In a little known manuscript of the 17th century, the north-west of Australia is called 'The Land of Gold.' And we are told that the fisherman of Solor, driven to this land by stress of weather, picked up in a few hours their boatful of gold nuggets, and returned in safety. They never dared repeat their voyage, on account of their dread of the unknown seas."

Good Words—From Good Authority.— * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your American Co.'s Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here for nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter's Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that American Hop Bitters have. * * We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., U.S.A., August 22, 78, from Benton, Myers, &Co., Wholesale druggists, Cleveland, 0. Be sure and see.

Good for Babies. —"We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of American Co.'s Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength."—The Parents. See.