The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3120, 2 November 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1886.

Elsewhere we publish Mr Daniel Baybutt’s experiences from Wyndhatn to Kimberley and back. Although Mr Baybutt does not mention George Mansfield's nan e, we believe Mansfield is one of the “ party (six in number)” who commenced the journey from Sydney and Wyndham with Mr Baybutt, and he and Tom Bath, Rasmussen, Tuckey, Mills, and H. Jones probably form the party of six referred to. Mr Baybutt pronounces the Kimberley goldfield a “ terrible failure of a rush.” The great race of the year in the southern hemisphere, the Melbourne Cup, will be run this afternoon, and the result, as soon as known here, will be placarded at this office, and at Mr Foldi’s store, Dillman’s. The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Trustees takes place at the Town Hall this evening. The New Zealand Company’s steamship Rimutaka, which left New Zealand on September 23rd, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday afternoon. The Peninsular and Oriental Company’s steamship Sutlej from Melbourne September 7th, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. Colonel Sir George Whitmore left Nelson last night by the Charles Edward, for Westport. Ho is accompanied by Majors ikiT'io ■ ml vVovd. fm. .. Tvn % rn . - . 1T , , j-xiz, L'limum tpUua'iuC ."ibSCIUUiy will meet at tho Empire Rooms to-morrow evening, at eight o’clock,

We have received the Union Steamship Company’s Pocket Guide for November. It is gratifying to see the interest which is being taken nightly by our Volunteer Fire Brigade men in view of the approaching contest which takes place at Greymouth on Monday next. The Grey Star says :—“ The Kumara team are the favourites for the engine practice, while Greymouth is best liked for the hook and ladder competition. The Hokitika eight are said to have done the work in very smart time indeed, and some say the Southern team will make a clean sweep of the board.” In accordance with a resolution of the County Council moved by Mr Grimmond at the last meeting, the Hon. the Minister of Mines has been asked to continue the subsidy to the contractors for the Cedar Creek reefs tunnel for another 300 or 400 feet, until they reached the supposed line of reef. The Hon. Mr Larnach, in hia reply to the County Chairman, says that whilst he is anxious to assist the raining industry in every possible way, he has decided that subsidies towards channels for drainage and tunnels must cease, such works being considered matters of private enterprise, and the State cannot any longer afford to contribute in this direction. There will be a sitting of the Westland Land Board to-morrow afternoon. Alexander Murray, who has been wanted since 1884 on a charge of forgery and uttering, was taken before the Magistrate at Greymouth yesterday, and remanded to Christchurch. Murray has been passing under the name of Peter Brebner for some time back. He was brought up by the six o’clock tram this morning in charge of Constable Sheehan, who escorts him as far as the Bealey, where he will be handed over to the charge of a Canterbury officer. At the rush on the North Town Belt, Hokitika, the Times states, nothing startling has occurred. Breeze and party are supposed to have bottomed, with poor prospects, whilst Gibson and party have been obliged to start a fresh hole, as their progress was barred by a large stump. A country paper states that it has seen a private letter from Sir John Hall, in which he states that it is unlikely that he will ever again enter the field of New Zealand politics. The reason alleged is the recent unhappy scandal in connection with his relative Thom as Hall. We understand that Miss Houston is at present a guest at Bishopscourt, in Christchurch, where she is staying at the invitation of the estimable Primate of New Zealand, whose son, the Ven. Archdeacon Harper, is Incumbent of Timaru. The authorities are still prosecuting inquiries re Captain Cain’s death, and should the result of these warrant it, informations will be laid. It is understood a Coroner’s inquest will be held on the remains, with a view of ascertaining by whom and in what manner Captain Cain came by his death. About twenty miners left Dunedin on Thursday under police protection, to commence work at Kaitangata mine. The late employees turned out to meet them, but as the tram was run up to the mine no chance was given for any hostile demonstration, if any such was intended. Messrs G. W. Moss and Co., auctioneers, will sell by auction at Messrs Kennedy Bros’, store, Greymouth, on Thursday next, a handsome dog cart, and a substantial spring cart. A strip of flannel or a napkin folded lengthwise and dipped in hot water and wrung out and then applied around the neck of a child that has croup will usually bring relief in ten minutes. Lord Randolph Churchill received an anonymous donation 0f£20,000 “towards the good cause, from a friend.” The money was handed over to the Conservative party fund, “Rough ok Rats”— Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits’ sparrows, gophers. At chemists and druggists. “Buchu-Paiba.” Quick, complete cure, for all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. At chemists and druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., Agents, Christchurch. Statutory Declaration.—l, Franz Raabe, Ironbark, Sandhurst, in the colony of Victoria, Australia, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on the 25th June 1877, my son Alfred, six years of age’ was accidentally hurt with an axe on the knee. I at once took all pains to secure medical assistance. However, in spite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, the opinion was given by Dr. Macgillivray that an amputation of the injured limb had become imperative, in order to save life. At this juncture I called on Messrs Sander and Sons, procuring some of their Extract of the Eucalyptus Globulus, and by the application of the same I had the satisfaction of seeing my son within a a fortnight out of all danger, and to-day he is recovered. T may just add that it was when the crisis had been reached that the Extract referred to was first applied. And I make this solemn declaration, etc. Franz Raabe. Declared at Sandhurst, in

the colony of Victoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, before me, Moritz Cohn, J,P.— [Advt.] Half Asleep! —“l never,” wrote a young lady to a friend, “go to church or lecture but I am half asleep, and I never know afterwards what the sermon or lecture was about.” It was a plain case of nervous lethargy, produced by want of action of the liver and digestive organs. She was persuaded to try American Co.’s Hop Bitters, and now she writes ; “ How intelligent and bright are sermons and lectures now, and how glorious the world we live in is ! Dr. Soule’s Hop Bitters are indeed a blessing to me.” Notice