The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3146, 3 December 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1886.

The committee which had the management of the late tea meeting and concert in aid of the Presbyterian Church Funds met last evening to ascertain the proceeds of the entertainment and close accounts. The result showed that the receipts by sale of tickets and for admission amounted to £37 16s. The expenses came to only £7, so that there is a clear balance of £30165, a very handsome sum to be realised by a tea meeting and concert. The first meeting to be held this season for the purpose of arranging for the Children's New Year Picnic, and to elect a committee of management, will be held i in the Town Hall, this evening, at eight o'clock. The wide popularity this annual festival in Kumara has attained and the rejoicings and greetings it brings to young and old will doubtless ensure a large attendance of gentlemen who desire to see the children and their friends enjoy themselves on the first day of the New Year as merrily as on former occasions. All youths desirous of joining a Cadet \ Corps arc- requested to meet at the Adelphi Hall this evening, at half-past seven o'clock. 1 Tlv: t'nk" ■\ out! i.ii!..'. ■::■'•""•;■ {''r-,?.y\\v V's/v? • Uu::i..'.;- : i :\t ! A\-,j. .-A. „,;i ;„,■■;• (..M!li ii: > ac ■ Oainaru, Timaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, j 1 and Nelson), on Monday, oth inst. J

Commander Edwin wired to-day at 1.35 p.m.—" Every indication of a further rise of glass."

There was a terrible occurrence at Lyell at the beginning of last week. The Westport Times states that an Italian named Gitardo Campani, employed on a contract, was detected by his employer, L. Blanchett, in on act ot bestiality, and warned to leave the place in twelve hours. Subsequently his dead body was discovered, he having placed a charge of dynamite on his stomach and literally blown his inside out. The suicide was apparently the result of remorse for his first crime or fear of probable consequences. The tale altogether is a horrible one. Mr Bird held an inquest on the body, which revealed nothing further. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.

The Westport Harbor Board call for tenders for the erection of an iron lattice bridge across the Buller river. Until the bridge is built the northern breakwater cannot be commenced.

Mr Armstrong Pearson had the misfortune to get his left hand injured in a crane on the Westport wharf, on Saturday morning. The tips of two of his fingers were crushed. The Charleston Kilwinning Lodge of Freemasons held their annual installation of officers last Friday evening. The ceremony was very creditably performed byßro. Loveday, P.M. of the Phoenix Lodge, Westport. Bro. Parsons was installed asR.W.M. for the ensuing twelve months. A banquet and ball was held in honour of the event, at which about thirty couples were present. The affair was in every respect a success.

The principle that all witnesses at Courts of petty sessions, inquests, and magisterial inquiries, should be paid, has been affirmed in the Victorian Legislative Assembly by a substantial majority.

Miss Fosbery's classes of instruction will be continued at the Town Hall tomorrow evening, at eight o'clock.

H. Goulston and Co. have just received a large assortment of trimmed hats, which will be sold at prices to suit the times. [Advt.] Never Return.—lt is said that one out of every four real invalids who go to foreign countries to recover health never return, except as a corpse. The undertakers, next to the hotelkeepers, have the most profitable business. This excessive mortality may be prevented and patients saved and cured under the care of friends and loved ones at home, if they will but use American Co's Hop Bitters in time.