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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 57, 22 June 1908, Page 2

MILTOI COAL SUPPLY AND ' ...GENERAL CARTING AND... DELIVERY 8U51NE55....... i, June Having bought One Coal and General Cartage and Delivery Busuiett established by the late D. Gordon wishes it to be understood that every branch of the Coal Supply and general Cartage Work will kave his personal attention. Any kind of Coal supplied at shogt notice. Cartage Contracts Umiortakea. Frttmtw* Removed. Goods Forvarded «& Any, ?»rk. Parcels aad Menkanela eollfs«»d and delivered. G. REED, junr., COAL AND GENERAL CARTER, MILTON, Good-looking ladies still young hare found out a now calling—"playing the cured patient" (says the Paris correspondent of the London 'Daily Telegraph'). Visitors who find time hanging heavily on their hands in a doctor's waiting-room are drawn into conversaThe good-looking lady, who looks also in the pink of health, tells you. how ill she was. Neuritis, rheumatism, gout, uyapupaia, anu veii/igu were uumumeu in her case with appendicitis and hallucinations. Several physicians treated her and left her worse. She went in despair to the present doctor, who cured her in three weeks. She has come today merely to thank him. She could do no less, having now regained perfect health. The "cured patient" charges a sovereign a day, but doctors find thai; the money is not thrown away. Another sign of the late awakening in China was provided at Sydney last week at a dinner tendered at the office of the 'Tung Wah Times' to Mr L. W. Sing, who is interested in the furniture trade, and is leaving for a trip to China with his wife and family. The chairman , Mr John Hoe, in referring to current events in so far as his country was concerned, and more especially to the boycott against Japan, mentioned that it was heard the Chinese Government intended to start a fund in all the provinces for the building of a navy, in addition to raising 100.000,000 taels (about £15,000,000) in other countries. solely for protection purposes. Mr ring Nan (On Chong and Co.) proposed the formation of a Navy League, and it was agreed fey the thirty leading merchants present to eall a public meeting next week with this find in View. t Premises were nrfad© by Softie of" %f\ intention to Subscribe, fa tie aggregate, £M< to the fund intended lie be raised locally. The T Auckland ►9 Ttomflpaaden* of tnt Hfcr 1 irfoiiM *fca* « large ■who recently died there. -»~ lady was a chierbainess of kigh rank, and is famous in Maori nistory as taking part in the battle of Orakau, in the Waikato, against the British troops. After Rewi gave his defiant reply to the British ultimatum to surrender, namely, "We will fight on for ever and ever and over,'.' the officer (Major Mair) requested tkat the women and children should come out of the pa, so as not to U„ 1.;11„J Tn,n„ ilrnm.; TV Pooro + o who was a young woman, jumped on the parapet and also hurled the historical reply, viz., "Where our fathers and brothers die there we also shall die," So Major Mair retired and the siege went on with fierce determination oh both sides. Ahumai had one of her fini gers shot off. Another bullet passed i through tho palm of her hand, and two more bullets pierced her body; yet she : still fought on till the British troops ultimately won the battle after great loss. i Ahumai was about eighty-four years of