The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3106, 16 October 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1886.

The Royal Mail steamship Mararoa arrived at Auckland from San Francisco at 5 p.m. yesterday, bringing European and American mails. She left 'Frisco on the 25th September, at 3.5 p.m., and arrived at Honolulu on October 2, at 6.43 p.m., left same evening ; arrived atTutila at 7.38 p.m. on 9th, left at 8.6 p.m.; passed s.s Mariposa at 5.33 a.m. on 14th, lat. 12.30 S., long. 149.47 W., 478 miles from Auckland; arriving as above. Steaming titre 18 days 10 hours 45 minutes. Fastest time on record. Passengers -For Auckland : Hon. S. Lyttelton, Madame Ryan and two sisters. For Timaru :—Jno. Ashburn (yachtsman), Sir Robert Fowler and son, Major and Mrs George, Mrs M'Kenzie, Messrs S. Waterhouse and M'lntosh Sherwood; 16 steerage. In transit for Sydney—3s saloon, 32 steerage. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour. Mr Harcourt gave his scioptican entertainment at the Theatre Royal last night, to a moderate attendance. The pictures were thrown on to a large screen on the stage by means of the lime light, which is a great improvement on the old magiclantern style. The scenes were mostly of renowned historic structures in Rome Venice, and Switzerland, with now and J again a comic scene, or a sight of some of j the lords of the forest and jungle ; the statuary also was much admired. Mr Harcourt has a good voice for describing ! the scenes, and occasionally he relieves the monotony of sight-seeing by singing a | sentimental or comic song. The entertainment will be repeated to-night, with fresh views and the addition of some instrumental music. Mr W. Wells' house, off Seddon street in front of the Theatre Royal, had a narrow escape from being burned down on Thursday night, at about ten o'clock. It appears a spark from the chimney I set the canvas roof smouldering, and as it had fanned into a flame before it was discovered, it occasioned considerable alarm, especially when the fire-bell also sent forth its dreaded peals. However the Fire Brigade turned out promptly, and the flames wore subdued before the building caught fire. Fortunately the house has an iron roof, or it might proi bably have fared worse. ' Mr Peter Moore, who has been so long ill, died at the Red Lion Hotel at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The deceased, who was a carrier, and an old resident in Hokitika, recently returned from the Hot Springs, which he visited in search of health. Since his return he has received the most careful nursin°under the care of Mrs Evans. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon. Mr Walter Prince, an eminent electrical engineer, lately from Eugland, has arrived in Kumara, and on Wednesday next, at the Adelphi Theatre, will give an exhibition demonstrating the practicability of utilising electricity as a motive power, as well as for lighting towns, tunnels, &c. In verification of this, the Otago Daily Times furnishes the following in respect to the one mine in the colony that is worked by electricity :—" A cake of 220nzs. of smelted gold came down from the Phoenix mine last week, which is the outcome of some old stone which had been put aside before the recent improvements were effected in the machinery and motive power as unpayable, but which is now ::ounu to yield a return over and above -•ort r.f ra : ; : ;i« and mi-'ihg, v-li:di io prove the value of the new innovations." This is the mine that Mr Walter Prince contracted to work a 20-statupor '

battery for by means of electricity, and completed his contract by working 30 stampers instead of 20. At that time there was a pile of stones (hundreds of tons) stacked on one side because it would not pay to crush, although the mining of it had been paid for; but with the new and inexpensive power it is all being crushed, and most profitably too. Mr Prince's lecture on Wednesday will not be a merely scientific treatise on electricity; he will demonstrate by actual practical proof the advantages which may be gained to miners in many ways by the uses and cheapness of electricity. In consequence of the freshes in the rivers and heavy sea there were no arrivals or departures at either port yesterday. A sale of work and gift auction, on behalf of the Wesleyan Church, is announced to take place in the Theatre Royal on Thursday and Friday, the 23rd and 24th December next. Contributors I are requested to forward their gifts to the Wesleyan Parsonage not later than the 4th of that month. Two Masonic installations have been held at Greymouth during the past week, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, one of the Mark Lodge, E.C., and the other of the Royal Arch, E.C., at both of which the officiating duties were most worthily performed by Bro. Hudson of Hokitika, and the following officers were installed :—Mark Lodge E. I. Lord, W.M. ; T. A. Murphy, S.W. ; Rev. J. i B. Westbrooke, J.W. ; J. M. Kelso, Secretary. Royal Arch—E. I. Lord, M.E.Z. ; R. W. Greenwood, M.E.H. ; J. T. Skoglund, M.E.J. ; T. A. Murphy, Scribe E; E. Ashton, Scribe N. ; H. W. Robinson, P.S.; J. Stevens, Janitor. The publisher of the West Coast Times has received the following letter from Mr James Park, solicitor, of that town : "L. Northcroft, Esq., Hokitika—Dear Sir—l am instructed by Mr Alexander Meharry, of Kokatahi, hotelkeeper, to apply to you for the sum of iSOO damages for a libel published by you in the West Coast Times of the 13th October inst., under the heading 'Telegraphic news (from a correspondent), Kumara, October 12.' And I have to inform you that if this amount is not paid forthwith a suit will be instituted to recover the same." Whereon the Times remarks : "If the Mr Alexander Meharry referred to is the late teacher of the Kokatahi School, it is high time that some action should be taken to give publicity concerning his conduct whilst holding that position. We would suggest that either the School Committee or the police should take action at once, and have the very grave charges made against him disproved, or due punishment meted out." The Canterbury Cricket Association has decided to play 22 men against the Australians, and declined to agree to the suggestions from the Wellington Association for a representative New Zealand team to play the Australians or to hold a North Island versus South Island match. Lady Randolph Churchill, who is universally understood to have aided her husband greatly in his efforts to attain political eminence, intends (says a London correspondence) to distinguish his tenure of the second post in the Goverment by a succession of brilliant entertainments. This social duty in connection with the Conservative leadership used to be discharged by Lady Salisbury, and with marked success ; but she is now, like the Marquis himself, in somewhat weakhealth. Lady Randolph is, as is well known, the eldest of three American ladies, whose maiden name is Jerome and all of whom have made aristocratic marriages on this side of the Atlantic. She brought her husband a modest fortune, which, as a younger son, he found very acceptable, and her uncle, Mr Saul Jerome, is one of the most successful financiers in New York. It is one of the stories of the Conservative clubs that Mr Jerome, when he heard of Lord Randolph's elevation last year to the Indian Secretaryship, sent his niece a blank cheque to be filled up at her discretion by way of congratulation. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, Ac ; the relief is instantaneous. Thousands' give the most gratifying testimony. Read this certificate: "24th April 1885.—Messrs Sander and Sons, —It is with the greatest of pleasure that I testify to the excellence of your Eucalypti Extract. Having had inflammation on tlie bone of the leg, which came on after a severe attack of low fever, I was attended by Dr. J. Boyd, who had made strenuous efforts to save my leg, but without success. He then found it necessary to amputate my limb. Having heard in the meantime of the wonderful cures -vnrkud by the Eucalypti Extract, I obuiined :: boule, and the extract had not I been applied more than an hour wheu 1 began to feel greatly relieved. After applying the extract every four hours for '

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