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Kumara Times, Issue 402, 9 January 1878, Page 2

Telegrams for the Australian colonies, per Albion via Bluff, will be received at the Kumara Telegraph Station up till 10 a.ra. Friday, 11th inst. A man named John Pierce, yesterday, at Dilhnan’s Town, cut his foot with an axe, nearly splitting it in half. A neighbour, Mrs Cox, dressed the wound, .connecting the severed portions by means of six stitches, and the patient is doing well All accounts against the Catholic Bazaar Committee must be sent in not later than Saturday next. Mr W. D. Campbell, Associate of King’s College, London, and of the Institute of Civil Engineers, can be consulted respecting surveys of claims, &c., this evening, at the Crown Hotel. The drawing of the Art-union in aid of St. Patrick’s School, has been postponed till Easter Monday. Mr R. O’Dohqyan has several sub-con-tracts to let on the Bowen and Okarito road. The largest audience ever assembled in Wellington filled the theatre to hear the Rev. Charles Clark lecture on “ Christmas in Old England.” The Grey County Council, last night, passed a resolution, authorising their Chairman to request the Government to proclaim the County a separate Land District, under the Land Act 1877. The Nelson Creek Water-Race is to be opened to-morrow, with due ceremony. The Westland County Council was to meet this afternoon. Part of the business to be transacted will be the consideration of the following motions of wliich notice has been given by Mr Dale. “That this* Council for the future meet twice viz., on the second Wednesday in March and September and following days if necessary.” “That the conduct of the ordinary business of the, .Council at other times, devolve on the’ Exfecutive Committee, who shall have power to act for and on behalf of, the’ whole Council.” “That the Executive Committee meet fortnightly.” “That specifications l?e prepared and tenders called, for clearing No. 3 line of survey from Greenstone road to Christchurch road.” It was stated in a Press Agency telegram recently published by us, that “11,{)30 horses had .been frdzen to death near Bucharest ;’V the correct wording of | the telegram should have been that I ‘ £ eleven men, and 'thirty horses were j frozen to death near Bucharest.”

The realities of war were exemplified in an official telegram sent from the Russian army before Plevna to the Imperial headquarters which raninthefollowingstrain:— “Artillery officers especially wanted. We have only sufficient left to last for a fortnight or so. The severe weather that has lately occurred will be the forerunner of indiap'osition—such as rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, and. muscular shifting pains. “Ghollah’s Great Indian Cures” have been pronounced by numbers of well-known Colonists to be the wonder of the Nineteenth Century, through the extraordinary cures that have been effected in their own cases by these Indian medicines ; amongst these may be mentioned M. B. Hart, Esq. ex-Mayor of Christchurch ; Melville Walker, Esq., J.P., of -Lyttelton; John Griffen, Esq. J.P., of Dunedin ; and Mr Alex. Mackintosh, of Mackintosh Bay, a very old colonist,. and now-76 years of age, who had been suffering from rheumatism for fourteen years, but is now quite cured. Testimonials may he seen and Medicines procured at all Medicine Vendors.— [Advt.].