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Northern Advocate, 11 August 1888, Page 3

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Visitors staying at Loram's Commercial Hote Whangarei, week ending, Friday, August 10t] Messrs Fiddler, Mowbray, Todd, Godden Tallis, Coulton, French, Jagger, Morrison Kirkwood, Whitehead, and Misses White. Volnnteers will bear in mind that on Fridaj the 24th inst., the third competition for th Mitchelson Cup will take placeNext -week commencing on Sunday, a serie of evangelistic services will be held in the Kami Wesleyan Chapel. Mj Buckhurst intends holding a wool sal at the Mart, the first week in December. On reference to our advertising columns i] will be seen that Mr Culpan has disposed of hi ironmongery business to Messrs Cooke am Whitelaw. Mr H. Cooke, who was Mr Culpan' former partner is favourably known as a mat of great practical experience and a good business man, which, csmbined with prompitudi and an obliging demeanour, will, we have littli doubt, command the confidence of settlers, am that success will ensue. Mr M. Whitelaw, th< partner of Mr Cooke, is a son of Mr J. Whitelav of Kamo. so well known as a general merchant There is every probability of thii combination building up an extensive business. For all skin diseases the sweet and best cur< is Clement and Bentley's Compound Sarsaparula Medicine.— Apvr.

3 We understand that the committee of tl Whangarei Lawn Tennis Club are negociatin for the purchase of a piece of land on the ol in racecourse, which they intend to have laid dow re and beautified for a permanent ground. It wil however, take some time to get it into prope ~> order, and in the mean time the committee wi IS get the old ground in readiness for the comin q # seasons' play. 1, The best and cheapest House for crocket ' and glassware of every description is Boylau 1- Tanfield, & Co.'s. 174, Queen-street and Lorn Street. No visitor to Auckland should fail t look over their magnificent stock which i d- generally acknowledged to be the largest am most varied in the colonies. We understani that pri«e lists can be obtained on application H7 18 Deaf ! A person cured of deafness and noise „ in the head of 23 years standing by a simpli *» remedy. Will forward a description of it to anj lj person who applies to Nicholson Lincoln's it Inn Chambers, William-street, Melbourne. JI2S « « r Garlick & Cranwell's is the best house ii Auckland to buy your furniture, carpets anc c floorcloth from. They keep a very largf l- assortment of iron bedsteads and all kinds oJ A bed-room furniture, and bedding to suit all , classes. Dining and drawing room 1 furniture ■' and every requisite for a house. v They are noted r for their good packing, furniture generally [j reaching the buyer as good as when purchased. , Five per cent, allowed on cash being remitted 1 with order. Bed linen, curtains and all kinds B of house furnishings in stock at low prices. 2 Book catalogues sent on application to Garlick & Cranwell, Queen-street^ Auckland. r In our Auckland letter will be found a report 3 of a meeting of D. H. Munro's creditors, in - the official assignee's office. We notice that, on account of the bad state of the roads the Hikurangi Coach will run 1 but twice a week the remaining portion of the I winter. The days will be Mondays and l Wednesdays. The travelling public will do well to remember this. The annual meeting of the Northern Jockey Club will be held at the Settlers' Hotel on Wednesday next, at eight o'clock. The meeting of the County Council takes 3 place at the usual hour, on Friday next, the 5 17th inst. It is time now that a rate was j struck, and arrangements made for early spring work. We do not know how it hapr pened, but it was certainly a fact that, not--3 withstanding the efforts of Councillors to hurry - matters and get work early under way, and the fact that the season Was exceedingly 3 favourable for road work, yet many of the I contracts wer much too long in hand, and the [ contract time much exceeded, with its consequent bad results. We hope to see an * improvement in this respect the ensuing season. 5 A nugget, weighing 3860z, and estimated to 5 yield 2760z of pure gold, was recently discovered in the working of the Burnt Creek Company " Dunolly. This is the largest nugget found I since July, 1887, when one weighing 6170z was . unearthed in the Midas claim. Two months . previously a nugget 1690z in weight was discovered in the ground of the same company. i These are three largest nuggets found in the ; colony since August, 1810, when one weiging i 3300z was found in Shicer's 3ully, Wedderburn. It is asserted that subsidsied steamships are transporting hordes or Chinese into Canadian l territroy, who afterwards cross the American borders. [ The Farnell inquiry commences in the first week of November. ' The English Government has asked the l American authoritiea to grant a respite to the murderer Maxwell. Stromboli, one of the Lipari islands, off the the coast of Sinily, is again in active eruption. 1 Immense damage is reported . ' Owning to the failure of the Montenegrin I harvest, fortv^ thousand persons have been . rendered destitute and are entirely dependent on charity. The Sultan has presented the Emperor ; William of Germany with a gold casket studded with brilliants. It is stated that by the time the next fruit season has arrived a gentleman will have ' visited the Australian colonies with the object ; of purchasing colonial fruit for introduction into , the English market. The Opotiki Herald says that it has cost the ■ County Council of that district £163 to spend » £153. The Highway Board during the same I period have expended £75, and it has cost them £53 11 8 dto do so. ' New Zealand is generally regarded as the L black sheep of the colonies as regards unprofit- > able railways but are angels to Tasmanias. '■ Their railways do not return 1 Der cent, On the I cost of construction.