LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2770, 8 May 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con.

' i j-eat --uckiane.—The New Zvda-lf. Shipping Company's offi.ei and stores in Quay Street, Auckland, were partly d 3 troyed by fire at four o'clock this morning The interior of the bui di-*g aud 11 hr.;'e quantity of flax w.ro burned, Ths to the building is estimated at £5000 1 . d to th 3fl xat £10/ 0, Th--; d-stroyfd was to be to be shipped by lb Wakanui for London, and a small quantity to San Fran oiEoa by the Ventura. Thsda/n'gi to the bU-idiigii rover d by insurance. Teacher's Whisky.—A very old friend r,f the residents of the Peninsula is shortly pvirg a visit with a view of giving the pc p'e a treat by inducing some of the hotel kept-re to purchase and vend some of th< celebrated Teacher's Whitkey It is said that for mellowness purity of flavour, and J'fe g'virg properties, this well known old Spirit has established an unequalled reputation in the Home markets. \ 'Children 1 iks to TAKK—The fines! quality of granu'ated loaf Bugar is used in tha manufacture of Chamberlain's Cjugh B.ni'dy, and the roots ueed in its preparation give ib a flavour similar to maple syrup, making it quite pleasant to take, Children like to tike it and it has no injurious after effect. It always cures. For sale by J. S. Dqdds, Chemist, Akaroa. A Strange Country.— The Native Kuao, who hasb en the leader of the opposition to the lacd at Kaikohe being handed over to the MaoJi Land Cr unoil to deal with, claims to be the principal owner of one particular owner of one particular part of the block Oilled Tautoro, a bg volcanic hill with a crater. The cratar contains a beautiful little lake, the Bides of the crater being prettily olothed with ferns and trees, There »re a nrmber of small Islands in the lake. !Ihe;e islands are ancient Maori burying place?, an 1 are, therefore, tapu or saccd. The block r-bout which the dispute has nrl.en is, states the Poverty Bay '• Herald," very large, and it would probably have been batter if it had been dealt with in smaller •areas.

Tub Fishing Industry.— No fewer .liar wet.vrine brrfs, including seven oil bundle?, are enea/ed in the fi'lirg indnr*. 'iy in a<*d about the French P>?s. About r\*fn y.five me.r find emoloyment Oure. Th> «« \Mp a ''ail "fays that there is an aim. ila'-c, of fi h obtainable in tha Fnnch Cass, but at pnsent fishing can only bp c*rri< d on for a s_|.ort lime Irfore the arrival of a r.vsirff np-«ri'r, and in cses of disapp n'ment in Lis dirrcticn the hauls a 1 c 'rtq",ently w--.."*d and thrown overheard. With proper 'aci'i'i. _ for rxnori, th, c it profit in the bn-iturs, nnd tlm u?e of oileneifd bra'a' ; s-proving a grrat a : vu.t»»e and ronvenierc*. In one c _c tec nt y the mm ergaged took, iv four excusEioi s, and shipper, to Wellington within a fort'*ioht, fish whioh nel!ed £14 per man. Under c xi6ting conditions, for want of means of transport while the fish are fr.th, the men are comparatively idle, and sometimes more fiah are ws-sted and thrown away than are sent to mnrket. For Children's Hacking Cough at night t.*ke Woods' Gret Peppermint Cue, Is 6d ard2*6d.