MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70452, 1 October 1900, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

OPUNAKE.

Feiday, September 28.

(Before Mr Stanford, S.M.)

A. Harvey v. Eangiterewa, claim d£4 ss; judgment by default, costs 13s. Same v. Wharerangi, claim J61 13s lOd ; judgment by default, costs 13s. Same v. George Roa, claim £2 13s 8d ; judgment by default, costs 13s. G. Vickery v. J. Carter, claim for return of a paroquet or £2 10s value; judgment for plaintiff, costs 17s, Police v. Thos. Wallace, charge of disturbing a public entertainment ; fined 5s and costs 13s.

"I suppose," said counsel "that tbe matter was generally talked about by all the men, and that any of them would have given much the same answers to you as the accused did ?" '« Well, yes 1" replied the witness—" of course they could " (a pause, during whioh counsel smilingly takes his seat), and then the witness added solemnly "if they had known as much about it as the accused did." The outbreak of laughter that followed should have been very gratifying to the witness.— News.

Cigarette smoking is henceforth to be a bar to employment on the Chicago, Rook Island, and Pacific railway. At the foot of every application form there is printed the question, "Do you smoke cigarettes?" The answer affects the person's chance of employment, aa the general superintendent of the line considers that cigarette smoking vitiates a man's capacity, enervates him, and renders him listless and occasionally reokless.

News from Tutuila, Samoa, states that recently a Tuafale named Faganina, of Afugai, caught a fish (Malauli), and went home to eat it, but one of the chiefs (Alii) named Letuli heard of this, and went for the native for daring to cook such a fish, and after taking all his boxes and other movables away killed all his pigs and live stock and burned his house. It was said to be contrary to Samoan custom for a native to eat that fish unless he was a chief. The ohief is now in gaol at Pangopango.

D. Nimmo Scott has been appointed agent for the Kickapoo Indian Remedies, and has a full line. — Advt.

Everybody ought to know that Messrs Hardley and Sons have on view the largest and best seleotion of cooking ranges in the district, including among others Barningham's and Shacklock's, makes of high and low pressure, suitable for brick chimneys or open kitchens at Dunedin prices.— Advt

WHAT 1O DO UNTIL THE DOCTOR ARRIVES.

It is very hard to stand idly by and see our dear ones suffer. while awaiting the arrival of the doctor. An Albany (N.Y.) dairyman called at a drug store there for a doctor to come and see his child, then very sick with croup. Not finding the doctor in, he left word for him to come at once on his return. He also bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which he hoped would give some relief until the doctor should arrive. In a few hours he returned, saying the doctor need not come, as the child was much better. The druggist, Mr Otto Soholz, says the family has sinoe recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to their neighbors and friends until he has a constant demand for it from that part of the country. For sale at Hawera General Store.