The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2582, 1 October 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1884.

From and after this day all Telegraph Offices in the colony will be open from seven to eight o'clock in the evenings, Sunday, of course, excepted. In future, receipts for telegrams will not be required. Payment of telegrams is to be made in stamps. This last regulation will bo very advantageous to senders of telegrams residing at a distance from any telegraph office, provided they make no error in the number of words and consequently stamps they may affix. In other respects we fail to see that it is any improvement for the convenience of or saving of time to the public, or to the senders of messages.

The Christchnrch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour. A special meeting of the Hospital Committee was held in the Town Hall last evening ; present—Mr Campbell, (in the chair), Messrs H. Burger, G. Watson, G. R. Rudkin, W. Nicholson, J. Wooldridge, Payne, and Metcalfe. The sole business was for the purpose of considering the advisability of applying to the Government for an increased subsidy to the Hospital. A resolution with that object was carried; Messrs Campbell, Nicholson and Rudkin were appointed to draft a letter to that effect to the Colonial Secretary; and another resolution was adopted that the member for the district (Mr R. J. Seddon) be asked to support the application. The programme for the complimentary benefit to Mr David Williams is now published.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Government Printer, of Hansard No 7, a copy of the Colonial Treasurer's Financial Statement, with tables, and a packet of bills. The weather message from Commander Edwin, at 4.22 p.m. is that "Indications are for strong westerly wind ; glass further fall."

All accounts against the County Council are requested to be rendered on or before Monday next, October 6th, at 5 p.m. Persons to whom the Council are indebted for work, services, or supplies of any kind, are notified as above, by the County Chairman.

The death is recorded of another very old resident of Ross, Mr Armstrong, which took place on Saturday morning last. The Mercury states that deceased has been engaged, of late years, in Ross, as a fruiterer ; was an American by birth, and has some relatives in America, who are in very good positions. His death was not unexpected, as he had been ailing for some time past. The funeral took place on Sunday last, and his remains were followed to the new cemetery by a large number of people. Those who have a kindly recollection of the late Chief Justice of New Zealand, Sir George Arney, will be pleased to learn that a stained glass window to his memory is being placed in Salisbury Cathedral, of which town the late Chief Justice was a native.

The special Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Herald writes:—Of course the would-be wits are trying to make fun out of Mi- Stout's gout, for besides alleging that the Premier caught the malady from sitting in propinquity to the Treasurer, they dub the Government, "The Gouty Government," say that "it has not a leg to stand on," is not sound on its understandings," "deficient in support," &c. They further allege that Mr Stout is getting a wheeled chair, and that he and Sir Julius will then run races through the great corridor, the prize to be the extra £SOO of Ministerial salary on the first choice of the Ministerial houses when the late members vacate them.

The Argus reports that some of Mr Petrie's admirers at Kaiata amused themselves with a rag baby on Monday afternoon, and after extracting what amusement they could out of the effigy—it was intended to represent Mr Guinness—they went into exstacies over the cremation of the thing. Small things satisfy small minds.

Good Words—From Good Authority. * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has 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 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., August 22, 78 from Benton, Myers and Co., Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see.

Good for Babies.—"We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength."—The Parents. See