The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3003, 18 June 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1886.

The Press Association reports that in answer to a question by the member for this district to the Government in the House on Wednesday, on the conduct of Dr. Davy in refusing to see the late Peter Smith, the reply was although he had severed his connection with the Kumara Hospital, did attend a patient named Peter Smith at the Hospital ; and there was no rider attached to the verdict at the inquiry on Smith.” Both these replies are contrary to facts as given at the inquest, and reported, and we shall be anxious to know how such replies wore arrived at.

It is the intention of the Borough Council of Kumara, in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, to levy a general rate shortly for the general purposes of the borough.

and, preparatory to so doing, a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the Borough for the financial year ending 31st March, 1887, is now publicly notified (in terms of the 109th section of the Act mentioned) before making the proposed rate.

The latest news from Kimberley is to the effect that Cambridge Gulf is proved to be the best route. There are three hundred men at Port Derby unable to proceed to Kimberley, owing to the absence of water on the route.

An adjourned meeting of the Westland Education Board was held at Hokitika, at half-past seven on Wednesday night. There were present—Messrs M‘Whirter (chair), Grimmond, H. R. Rae, Jack, and Rose. The business of the evening consisted in distributing the building vote amongst the various school committees. The following are the sums voted ;

As there were some doubts as to the necessity for an expenditure on the teacher’s residence, Hokitika, the matter was left in the hands of a committee consisting of Messrs H. R. Rae, Grimmond, and Jack. The Board also decided that the votes passed were final. This concluded the business, and the Board adjourned. Sergeant Keating has resumed his former position here. Sergeant Watson, we learn, proceeds to Ross again. The Taipo River is to be no longer a “ taipo it is now bridged by some of the best-constructed spans, on cylinders, which any bridge of its size in the colony can boast of. And Mr MTnerney, the landlord of the hotel which has been such a haven of rest for travellers for many years past, has resolved to celebrate the event of opening the bridge by having a ball on Tuesday evening next, the 22nd inst. Refreshments will be provided, and music for the occasion will commence at 8 p.m. Amongst what might be termed one of the comicalities of the late terrible eruptions at Rotorxa, may be narrated the following;—An old Maori, a centenarian, was exhumed after an entombment of sevei'al days. At length after being dug out and scraped pretty clear of the volcanic mud, he gave not the slightest expression of gratitude or any appreciation whatever of the efforts to save him—he looked neither to the right or the left, but made a bee line for the nearest tucker, and in a remarkably short space of time he had made one of the squares! of “square meals.” Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract.—Cure of Skin Diseases. Invercargill, N.Z., 3rd of July, 1880. Messrs Sander and Sons, Sandhurst Gentlemen.—Having suffered from eczema (a skin disease which is very prevalent in this colony) for about nine years, I had consulted numerous medical men here and in Australia, and had taken arsenic, strychnine, iodide of potassium, &c., internally, and had used preparations of zinc and lead externally. In fact, I had tried all the remedies known to the faculty, and what between traveling, doctors’ and druggists’ bills, had spent a small fortune, almost, if not wholly, without results, except to injure my constitution. During a lecent visit to Hokitika I was recommended to try your Extract Eucalyptus Globulus by a brother who had experienced great benefit from it in alleviating a very severe cold, and no less to my surprise than satisfaction, I found the disease which troubled me so long was conquered, and the skin resumed its normal condition. This was effected by the external use of less than two twoounce bottles. You are welcome to make any use you please of this letter, and I subscribe myrelf.—Yours, etc., Signed John H. Kerr, Manager Union Bank of Australia, Limited.—[Advt.]

Lovely. Climes. There are lovely climes and places in which the evening zephyrs are loaded with malaria and the poison of fever and epidemics. To dwell there in health is impossible without a supply of Hop Bitters at hand. Those American Co.'s Hitlers impart an equalizing strength t>> the system, and prevent the accnmnl.iiion of deadly spores of contagion. Ec sure and sec

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