The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3096, 5 October 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1886.

Telegraphic coim<nuuciiti"ii with IJL-n----lieim and Wellington, via both Christchurch and Nehon, is interrupted, probably owing to tho severe v, cather of yesterday. '! ho fifth share in Carew and party’s claim represented by the late, iMichnol tiiucy, with interest in plant, machine 4 .y, (.Ws/.J 0 I*o C-.l Uwi \Jil CiiO ground, Ross Terraco, by H. L, Robin-

son, Esq. (for Messrs Mark Sprot and Co., auctioneers). The share was knocked down to Mr Martin Scanlon, the price being £l4O. The hut was sold for £5. The fortnightly meeting of the Hospital Committee takes place this evening. Yesterday afternoon (the Times reports) a serious accident happened to a boy named M‘lntyre. He was playing about Gibson’s Quay at a spot where the bank falls suddenly for 12 feet, when he fell and dislocated his thigh. The sufferer was promptly conveyed to the hospital, and is doing as well as can be expected. The Dillraan Town quadrille assembly will meet at the Empire Rooms to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock. Mr Burnett, the temperance lecturer, bore very flattering testimony, in one of his addresses, to the ‘ ‘ beauties of Napier.” Mr Burnett wound up his panegyric on the natural beauties of the town by fervently ejaculating, “And may God bless the Mayor of Napier ! ” Whether the blessing was invoked because the Mayor happens to be also a brewer, or because Mr Burnett regarded him as one of the “beauties of Napier,” was left entirely to the imagination of the audience. It has been suggested in Wellington that when the English and Australian cricket teams visit New Zealand, a really good a representative New Zealand eleven should be got together to play against them. According to the London correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Lord Augustus Loftus is very desirous that the Right Hon. W. B. Dailey should enter the House of Commons, as he is of opinion the Irish Catholic statesman of New South Wales would become, were he to settle in the Mother Country, a most important factor in the unification and pacification of this distracted realm. The London policeman (writes “ißgles” in the Australasian) is sometimes equal to the occasion. An Australian colonist in London, after long years of bush experience, deemed it wise to have himself redressed by a London tailor. Somewhere close to the official home of the Lord Mayor he asked a patrolling constable “to direct him ” to the Mansion house. The officer, distrusting the genuineness of the request, said “ Look here, now, my man, I’ve no time for chaff.” “I’m not chaffing you,” sincerely protested Mr Shankbone; “ I am a stranger in a strange land.” Being requested to move on, the visitor proposed some refreshment, which was accepted. During the consumption of the second pint of ale the Australian, in a spirit of mild revenge, suggested, “What would your superior officer say if he was informed that you were drinking in a publichouse—when you should be on your beat?” “Lord bless you, sir. I would explain that I was looking after a suspicious character.” The Simplon Alpine tunnel, which is about to be commenced, will be no less than 12J miles in length, and its estimated cost is £4,000,000. The Mont Cenis tunnel is 7| miles in length, the St. Gothard 9Jr miles, and the Arlberg oi miles. 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 lias 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, ’7B, from Benton, Myers, &Co., Wholesale druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see.