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Westport Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 3275, 2 December 1884, Page 2

The total indebtedness of the Buller County Council is £SBOO, of which sum £2BOO is due the Bank of New South Wales in the form of overdraft. Yet it is asserted that the position is better than it was four years ago. A public meeting was held in the Heading Room at Waimangaroa on the evening of the 26th instant, with the view of holding sports on New Year's Day, at the usual place. The meeting was largely attended, and a strong Committee was elected. The sum of £l2 12s. was collected in the room. The Inangahua Times says the Red Queen Company is shaping well to realise the glowing anticipations of the shareholders. Police-Gaoler Coulahan has kindly shown us a telegram from Beefton, intimating that Sergeant Neville died at 11.50 on Thursday night. Deceased was attacked with paralysis on Monday night, and never rallied. He was formerly stationed in Westport, and was well known throughout the West Coast. The Great Republic Gold-mining Co. have entered into a contract with Messrs. Anderson and Sons, of Christchurch, for the erection of quartz crushing machinery on their claim at Stoney Creek. This looks like progress. Harts' " Happy Hours" Company made their first appearance on Thursday evening, and were received with the appreciation they deserved. The bill included " Diamond Cut Diamond" and an original musical comedy "Hoaxed Again." The pieces teemed with song, dance, and brilliant acting, the entertainment on the whole proving one of the best of the drawing-room class. A startling accident happened at Costello's Hill, Charleston road, on Friday, whereby Mr George Holmes suffered the total loss of a horse, for which he paid L 25 two months ago. Mr Holmes was returning from Charleston with a wag-gonnette-load of ladies and gentlemen who had attended the Masonic ball, and, when coming down Costello's Hill, one of the horses refused to answer the rein. There being no brake on the trap, the ultimate result was a capsize at the edge of the precipice. The occupants—Mesdames Gilmer and Nahr, Miss Nahr, and Mr Hagedorn—either got out or were thrown out, but escaped unhurt. With the horses and trap lying in confusion on the brink of the declivity, threatening every minute to slip over, the position was an exciting one. For an hour and a-half Messrs Holmes and Hagedorn, eventually assisted by Mr Costello and several Croninville miners, exerted themselves to set the horses on their feet and upright the waggonette, and they succeeded except in the case of one horse, which slipped down the hill many hundreds of feet and disappeared in the ravine below. It is almost miraculous that the accident did not result in more serious injury. Mr O'Cohor, M.H.R., has received a telegram from the Hon. Premier, stating that the first meeting of the Westport Harbor Board has been fixed at Westport for Monday, loth December, at noon. This decision will be Gazetted this week. We are requested to inform intending investors in the " Star Seance " that only ci limited number of programmes now remain in the hands of the promoters and their various agents, so that, to avoid exclusion, application should be made at once. The "Happy Hom-s" Company's second entertainment, on Friday evening, gave unalloyed satisfaction, the performances of Mrs, Miss, and Mr Hart being almost without fault. Mr A. Stephen advertises a certain tooth-ache cure. We learn the medicine is an extract from an indigenous vine. The total coal export for the month of November was 7407 tons 13 cwt. The amount contributed at the Readmg Room, Waimangaroa, in aid of Christmas spovts, was Ll7 10s—not the smaller amount previously reported. «. A Beautifui, Paintixo.'—Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S. A, is presenting to druggists and others in this country some very fine pictures in oil of his magnificent house and grounds ar.d laboratory at that place. Mr Green is the proprietor of Boscheo's German Syrup and Green's August Flower, two very valuable medicines, which are meeting with great favor, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary complaints, and the latter for Dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations have attained an immenee sale solely on their superior merits, and are sold by all druggists throughout the world. The price is the same for each, 3s 6d per bottle, or sample bottles for 6d. The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trifling cost. Advt. August Flower, Well's " Rough o n " Rats and Corns" to be hac 1 A. Richardson, Chemist.—(Advt.) A great many neuralgic diseases, when aggravated become spasmodic, and it is in this particular stage, or type of the disease, that the great mollifier, known as Udoipho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, asserts its supremacy. It soothes the nerves by its gently diffsive properties, allays irritation by its quieting effects, and toning the system, strengthens the organs, so as to pefect functional action. —[Advt,] Catakkii of the Bladder.—Stinging irritation, inflammation, nil Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by " BuchaPaiba." Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosand Go., Agents, Christchurch. Goon for Babies.—" We are pleased to any 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 healthand strength. The Parents. See.—[Advt.] Flies and Bugs, Beetles, insects, roaches, acts, bed-bugs, rats, mice, flies, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by " Rough on Hats." Kempthorne, Prosser, & Co., Agents, Christchurch.—[An.] Good Words—Fbom Good Authority. * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your 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. '7B, from Benton, Myers and Co., Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see.—[Advt.]