The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, .NOVEMBER 29, 1898.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3016, 29 November 1898, Page 3

The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, .NOVEMBER 29, 1898.

A son of Mr Edward Hasaet of Sonthbridge, about 11 yeare of age was kicked on tbe face by a horse yesterday evening. The bridge of hia nose wai broken and both eyes damaged, beaidea other severe ir juries to bis face. Drs Metiziea and Sntherland attended the little sufferer at his home and he was taken to I the Danedin Hospital this morning. At time of writing the weather gives every agjfearanoe of being fioe for the Tokomairiro farmers' dob's Show to day. The general entries are quite np tv the average, if not bayond those of last year, and the exhibits of machinery are considerably greater in number than asaal. Given good weather tbe Show ehoald be an unqualified enccess from every point of view. The new £1 notes of the Bank of New Zealand, whioh have jaet been put into olroalatloD, are considerably larger than the old lesuF, and resemble Bank of England notes. Zealand ia ia represented by a figure standing near a volcano, and the Inevitable kiwis and sheep adorn tbe faoe of nature. The appropriateness of New Zealand standing near a voloano Is obvious, bat It would be more so if the State Bank was f presented as fitting on (he top of ft volcano ;

The Waihola Caledonian Society have last no titna in gating ous their pro gramme for their epbrts on Boxing Day. The programme is a very attractive cne this year, and " Bports ' shonld prooure a oopy from the seoretary, Mr Tomkinson. " We wish it were possible for members of Parliament to realise that they are expected to act as gentleman; there might be then a better tone exhibited in Parliamentary debate*."— ' New Zealand Times. Truth is strange — stranger than fiction. Here is a sample:— Aohemistdown at Gore has the courage to own up to the sorts of drugs he keepa— he calls his shop " The Rougemont drug store." We have to acknowledge receipt from Mr D. M'Keczie, Union street, of a very artietio Xnas card allowing photogr^phio views of Milton and district. As a souvenir to send to friends .it is as pleasing as it is appropriate to the Beaaon. Specimens of these cards can be seen on view at Mr M'Keoz'e'a shop In Union street. To-morrow three rinks from the St. Olair Bowlkg Club will visit Milton and play a matah with the local o'ub. The team will be picked from the following players : D M'Pbersor, W Taylor, Dr Meczies, R Robertson, W Moors, D Taylor, B Moorhouse, A B Baggie, R Murray, H Coombe, 0 Gfnt, J Look hart, R M'Millan, W Walker, T AHohin, F MLeod, and C Maitland. Play Btarta at 130 o'olook Bharp The Taratu syndicate evidently means business, for, at last meeting of the Otago School Commissioners G. M. Bair wrote on behalf of a syndicate formed f r the purpose of constructing a railway from Lovella Flat to Taratu, applying for consent to a sub-lease of 2 acres 1 rood 17 poles of Beotion 5, biook V , of South Tuakitoto, from Mr William Fraser, lessee of the section, — The matter was referred to Messrs Dallas and Green to report. A North Island settler, • whose experience has le f him to this conoluaior, says that no sheep paddocks should be without a bit of parsley. For years it haß been his ouatom to gather all the parsley seed be can from his garden, and scatter pinohes of it on bare patches left after burniog of logs The sheep are very fond of it, and never have any of these ailments which have troubled so many of the local nocks. Our attention has been drawn to that growing evil in our midst — hoodlumism. A stroDg foroe of the larrikin band 1b at present making itself notorious in the direction of Fairfax and several residents particularly women, have been bustled and frightened by its manly and courageous membere. We Bhonld like to see Constable Maoßie paying a vi-lt on the qu'et when we are cure that he would be able to capture one or two of the boodlooiF. A meeting of the managing committe of the Milton Bowling Club was held od Friday nigbt when it was decided to oall for tenders forthwith for the ereotion of a wicdm!ll. The oaretaker was authorised to prrvent any person playing on the green witb. out slippers. Several prizeß have been promised this season the drawing of which will take place as parly as possibleThe following kindly remarks appear in the ' Mt. Benger Mail.' The Bbcoe Herat d published at Milton, is now issued as an eighr-pagftd paper, and takes rank as the largest bi-weekly journal in Otago, if not in the oolony. Since the present management took over the ooutrol of the paper, it has exactly doubled in s?z a . Mr B. A. Pyke, proprietor, is nothing if not progressive, and we trust that his endeavor to keip abreast of the times will meet with liberal support. On Friday evening last the members of the Tokomairiro Presbyterian choir, Sunday School, and Mutual Iro. provement Society tendered a social to Mra W Martin, nee Miss Fergneon, on the oooaeion of ber marriage. Mrs Martin has bean an active member of the ohcrch sooietiea for over 10 year?. DuriDg the evening the Rev. Mr ChUholm p-eseoted ber with a handsome drawing-room table aadawrMng desk on behalf of the above, ai4 referred to the energetic manner in which Mrs Martin had always performed her duties. Mr Martin briefly responded »n bebalf of his wife. During the excitement of the re omfc South Afrioan elections two Dutobmen at a boarding-house dioner table were eulogising the superior virtues of their r»oa as opposed to the English. Presently Queen Victoria waß mentioned , when one exolaimed : 'D-n Victoria!" With that, the Englishman who sat next to the offending Datobman threw the whole contents of his plate on his head — meat, potatoes, cabbage and gravy. Every other boarder threw at him the article nearest at hand — half a loaf of bread, a hot potato, or a jag of water — until the poor victim cried for meroy, which was granted him after he h*d withdrawn hh words and made a suitable apology. On Saturday evening a schoolmaster named Alfred Heatboote, at Wairic, was killed by falling from the platform of a train between West Plains and Wallacetown. His foot slipped on the platform and he fell between the carriage and the guard s van. with head between the rails and bis budy dragging outside. The ehoulder must have oaught the brake block in front of tbe wheels. The man was dragged along in ihie manner some 150 yards, when the shoulder was released and the neck fell across the rails, and the wheels passed over it. When . the train was stopped he was found lyiog across the rail with his neck and left arm reduoed to a pulp. While in the South farmers have to complain of the cold wet weather retarding growth, those in North Otago and South Canterbury are likely to suffer, singular as it may seem, from too favourable a season. A traveller tells us (' Southland News ') that seen from the train the wheat orops look a perfect pioturei averaging about a foot high, and covering thousands of aorea a bright green. The growth has been so rank that: there is a danger of the crop running too muoh to straw. Large numbers of farmers have tamed Bhe p in so feed the exuberant vegetation dowD, and others have resorted to the expedient of running over the crops with the reaping maohioe, which will cause the plant! to stool ooti,

We have all been so accustomed to hear of the horrors of war in the past, that we have not yet awakened to the pleating fact thaf, amongst sc-oalled civilised people, modern warfare is not nearly so dangerous Brt the battle of life, la faot in the near future it will be reckoned as a truism If you do not want to die— go to war. For instance, the war with Spain the total number of people killed on the American ■ide was only 300. Referring 'to the fact that the balk of the rabbits by the Bakaia arrived Home in a rotten condition, and that a shopkeeper at Camberwell was fined £20 for selling nnsonnd New Zealand rabbits, the •Tapannl Courier' writes :— "lt is hardly to be wondered at that enoh reports are coming to hand, considering the manner in which the rabbits were handled before being frcz:n. If oaroasses packed like coals into railway trnoks— and sometimes left standing from Saturday to Monday in thaft state — could reach consumers in a palatable oondition, it would be most extraordinary. Exporters will receive a lesaon this season they should profit by." Watoh your tongue —This advice Is given seriously. If it is covered with fur on arising, and you have a bad taste in your mouth yru can understand »hat your stomach wants some attention; Your Liver is probably sluggish. If so the bowels ate irregular, you feel uncomfortable after your me*le, your heart palpipatei, you Ret nervous and depre sed. Then at night you c ther cannot sleep and , else you sleep heavily, dream badly, and awake tmxefreahed. LOA^BY'a WAHQO removes all thia. It has cured dczsas in yonr own town who were worse than yon are Ie has this supreme qualification also that you don't have to take a drzan bottles to get auTed, one bottle usually cures the worst oase. KOOLIBAH, onr Dew remedy, is unequalled for rheumatism, nenralin's sp-ainP, bruise*, old swellings, oongbs and cold?, 2a all ohemistr, or port free from LOASBY'S WABOO MFG CO? nf, Donedic '