TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1772, 4 November 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PRESS A3SOCI ATION).

WELLINGTON, November 3

About £120 was taken at the Carterton Show gates yesterday. A strong southerly breeze prevented many visitors, but the attendance was large.

When O'Brien, who haa just been brought back from Sydney* on a charge of vrifo desertion, appeared before the court to-day he created quite a ecene by bringing various charges in a most excited manner against Magistrate Wandel). Upon the latter asking whether the wife was present O'Brien exclaimed that he (Wandell), probably, knew best where she was. The magistrate ordered the case to staud over till counsel for O'Brien returned from Wanganui and it will probably go on this afternoon.

NEW PLYMOUTH, November 4.

The appeal by the ratepayers against the New Plymouth harbor rate was heard yesterday before Judge Gillies, who dismissed the appeal with costs. At the Rame time he saw no grounds whatever for doubting that the rate had been properly levied.

AUCKLAND, November 3

News via Fiji announces the death of Mrs. Liefe, wife of the British Consul at Onga.

H.M.S. Opal is still at Tonga ; and the German squadron is at Apia, Samoa. Arrived — the steamer Wainui, from Fiji. The Governor of the colony has announced reductions in the salaries of civil servants, from five to twenty per cent., and a number have been dismissed, and threatened to close Levuka as a port of Commerce.

GISBOENE, November 4.

A message received from Te Eooti yesterday states that he is anxious to visit Poverty Bay, but will not come if tbe Government objects.

GUrLTY OF WKONG,

Some people have a fashion of confusing excellent remedies with a large mass of " patent medicines." and in this they are »uilty of a wrong There are some advertised remedies fully worth all that is asked for thorn, and one at least we know of : Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters. The writer has had occasion to use the Bitters in just .■nirh a climate ns we have most of the year in liny City, and has always found them {.-> lie first-class and reliable, doing all that is i-l.unuil for them.— Tribune. — 1.

Hollowat'b Ointnent and Pills are beyond all doubt the most valuable and most convenient medicines that travellers can take across the seas to distant climes, for change of climate and the new conditions and surroundings of life to which they will be exposed will assuredly give rise to groat disturbances of the system and to Buch especial morbid states of the blood and constitution generally as will render the use of these effectual remedies highly necessary, for they will find in them a ready and safe means of relief in most of the diseases which afflict the human race, and with, them at hand they may be said to have a physician always at their call.