MISCELLANEOUS

Northern Advocate, 31 March 1888, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

Visitors staying at G. Loram's Commercial Hotel, Whaugarei, week endiug March 30th :— Mossw Rimmer, Ramsay, Marsden, Hooper, Meldrum, Rawnsley, Nolan, Phillips, Fiddler, Hill, Hewettson, J. R. D. Baker, Dr. Carolan, Mr and Mrß Urquhart. During the hearing of a maintenance case in Melbourne, it appeared that the applicant had knocked out one of her husband's eyes and blinded the other with a parr of scissors. The maintenance order was refused. The Government expect to call Parliament i together not later than the end of April. Ministers are now engaged framing the' Estimates to be placed before the House next session. The health of the Emperor of Germany is. improving. Ratepayers should bear in mind that thecounty rate collector has notified them that all rates should be paid on or before the 31st inst. All those who are in arears with their rates on the Ist of April, will have their names struck off the electoral roll and placed op the defaulters' list. It is the intention of the Council to enforce payment of all rates due. It would be well that all persons who have not paid their rates to do soon Saturday, to save the expense of a blue invitation to attend the E.M. Court. The spread of typhoid fever in and about Auckland is creating much anxiety. It is believed by many that the injudicious deposit of nightsoil in the immediate suburbs is the great cause of this terrible epidemic. Unclean daries also are suspected; some of which are known to be infected. The following tenders were received for painting the Kamo Post-office :—T. Turner, Kamo, £6, accepted ; E. Jenkins, Whangarei, £6 ; J. Whitelaw, Kamo, £7 ; C. Astley, Whangarei, £9 15/; R. Keyte, Whangarei, £11 17/9. A cable from Sydney states that silver stocks are steadily on the decline. The timber sydicate, of which so much has been said, will probably fall through. Recently a Glee Club was established at Otonga, and on Thursday next a concert and dance in connection with it will be held in the Otonga School-house. Mr Clark, of the Kamo Hotel, calls for tenders for painting the Hotel. Tenders close on the 7th of April. Mrs Meldrum's paddock at Kamo, will be let by auction by Mr Wakeliu, on Wednesday next. By an inidvertance the advertisement of Mr Rawnsley's notifying his right to dig gum, has been wrongly worded. Instead of "having just secured a lease of another large tract ot laud," it should read that he has "Secured the right to dig gum over the large tract of land known as the Peroti Swamp." We se that the Melbourne Drapery Company have taken the corner shop, opposite the Bank, and find that it is the intention of the Company to establish a permanent agency here. We have no doubt that the repute this company has gained for itself throughout New Zealand will be maintained here also, and that this branch will become popular. In the House of Commons, on the 23rd mat Mr. Harrington, M. P., asked the Government if it was not possible to devise some means whereby a stop might be put to the practice of selling 'imported meat as English. In reply Lord Onslow, political secretary to the Board of Trade, suggested that the vendors should be prosecuted by the people to whom they made the false representation. It is reported that Mr Cecil Raikes, Post-master-General, will succeed Sir W. F. Drußto mond Jervois as Governor of New Zealand. A Sydney cable says a heavy taunderstorm passed over portion of the colony on the 25 inst. At Bauenjoey, ahouse was struck by light* ning and burned to the ground. It subsequently transpired that a man was in the house at the time, and it is supposed he perished in the names. On Friday a settler's child near Stratford fell out of its cradle into a bucket of water, and was drowned. The child was sevsn months old, and the mother not being in the house at the time, was not aware of the accident till she saw the child lying dead in the bucket. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company it was decided to deciare' a dividend of ten per cent., and write off £5000 for depreciation of works and plant. Messrs W. Cbrvstall and Jno. Cooke were re-elected directors During the past year 226,007 sheep and lambs, and 306 head of cattle were frozen at the company's works.

From Invercargill one hundred and fourteen tons of cheese have been shipped to London. At Masterton a nurse named Mrs Hewitt was found this morning drowned in the river she had to cross to reach a settlement. She had been missing since Monday. It is supposed that the fresh in the river carried her away. * A Sydney cable says grass fires still continue. It is strongly suspected that they ar purposely started because of the high wages paid for extinguishing them. In the polling for the reduction in the number of hotels in Ballarat East, the local optionists obtained a majority of 405 in favourlof reducing the hotels from 72 to 27- In Geelong it is expected that the polling will show a similar result. The company owning the Waratah coal mines refuses to grant any concession to the men who are now out on strike, and have declined to accept the proposal that the matter should be submitted to arbitration. The New South Wales Government are considering the propriety extending the penny postage over the whole colony. The late Emperor of Germany left over 50,000,000 marks. The larger portion increases the Crown treasure ; the balance has been left to his wife, the Emperor Frederick, and the Grand Duchess of Baden. Particulars of the fire at the Oporto Theatre show that the outbreak originated through the explosion of gas in the last act of a piece that was being performed.' The doors from the tipper boxes and gallery became blocked by the rush of men, who drew their knives and fought for egress. Some of those who escaped had their clothes completely torn off, and were covered with wounds. About twenty persons were trampled to death in the stampede. Several were killed by Jumping from the windows, and serenty suffocated and calcined bodies were afterwards found in the debris. The actors engaged in the performance escaped in their costumes. What a truly beautiful world we live hi! We can desire no better when in good health; but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and Worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling. Green's August Flower will make them as free from disease aswhen born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are the direct cause of seventy-five per cent, of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful effect. Sold by all Druggists at 3s. 6d. per bottle, sample 'bottles. 6d. Try it. Garlick & Cranwell's is the best house in Auckland to buy your furniture, carpets and floorcloth from. They keep a very large assortment of iron bedsteads and all kinds of bed-room furniture, and bedding to suit all classes. Dining and drawing room furniture and every requisite for a house. They are noted for" their good packing, furniture generally reaching the buyer as good as when purchased Five per cent, allowed on cash being remitted with order. Bed linen, curtains and all kinds of house furnishings in stock at low prices. Book catalogues sent on application to Garlick & Cranwell, Queen-stieet Auckland ABVI-.