MISCELLANEOUS

Northern Advocate, 8 September 1888, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

Visitors staying at Morrison's Commercial Hotel, Whangarei, week ending September 7 :— Messrs Jagger, Jesty, Palmer, Legge, Malavey, Bamsey, Kern, Bell, Rawnsley, Owen and Armstrong. Owing to the non-arrival of the steamer on Saturday, the mail will be delivered on Sunday taornfng between 9 and 10 a.m. Jif H. R. Cooke, ironmonger of the firm bt Cooke and Whitelaw, has been appointed agent to the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Societv.

It will be seen that tenders are called for the carrying of the local mails for the ensuing year. Oar readers will be pleased to see that the much needed service between Whangarei Slid Kawakawa is also included in the advertisement. Thin has long been a great need, and will tend most materially t» prosper the intervening county, as well as the towns of Whangarei and Kawakawa, as it will. ensure a through weekly coach. Mr J. Tyndall, of Auckland, surgeon, dentist, advertises sets of teeth, nffljAjyr pro- * We are pleased to see that tne^um of are effectually clearing the 1 water J^£ neede/ town. Inmanyplacea this was mofl^^ ye wxl. The many improvements which, aW^-^feen effected during the present Board's jL"* 1 °f office proves they have been by nfe means idle, and will place them in a f avoidable position for re-election. / There was a large attendance at the Rintc on Thursday, when the ladies' and gents, races were competed for- Miss Maggie Wilson won the former, ftV*fa*"g very prettily. Sirs Barnes unfortunately tripped at the start, and hurt her side, or she would have made the pace tremendously, warm. Mj«s Street, whose nnking is something to J>e admired, was not well, and could not put forth her usual powers Of speed. Toe gent's race was very good, and was ultimately won by Mr Ormsby, although many thought that Master Harry Thomas was the winner. He certainly skated ■well, and deserved th' 4 applause given him in the race. We were glad to see Mr R. Thompson, M.H.R., present. He said it was a first-rate turn out. Oarlick & (Jranwell'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 traver 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 & Cronwell, Queen-atreet. Auckland. The best and cheapest House for crockery and glassware of every description is Boylan, Tanfield, & Co.'s, 174, Queen-street and Lome Street. No visitor to Auckland should fail to look over their magnificent stock which is generally acknowledged to be the largest and moat varied in the colonies. We understand that price lists can be obtained on application. fl7 "If Wellington could be properly sized up (says lie Hawke's Bay Herald) it would be found' to contain more swindlers, frandulent bankrupts, loafers, immoral persons of both sexes, and howling hypocrites of the theological profession, than any other town of this unhappy country." Thus " Puff " says in the Evening Press on the rise of the wheat market — "Wheat's going ahead finely ! Cargoes to arrive have been sold for 40s ! ' It is quite like old times ! Except that we havn't got the wheat to sell. Great tracts of land that should carry 30 bushels to the acre have produced nothing for years past except four crops of promissory a year. The Nihilists have murdered a rich widow reiading in St. Petersburg who was suspected having betrayed their secrets to the police. The murderers left a knife in the wound, on which was engraved, "Vengeance to traitors," and decamped with 30,000 roubles. Prince Bismarck has officially inf omred Russia that he advised Signor Crispi to moderate the tone of his communications to the French Foreign Office, in order to avert the possibility of a collision with France. The English Wesleyan Conference has issued a pastrol address, which the English press generally regard as a striking sign of advancement in the direction of religious liberalism. The members of the Wesleyan faith are urged to take more active part in the public affairs, on the ground that stalwart Christians are* painfully needed on education boards, muncipal bodies, and above all, in Parliament. From Sydney we learn that the Miners' funds only' amount to £6000, which is about sufficient only to pay I'is per head. One hundred and fifty soldiers and two hundred police had to be employed in evicting tenants upon the Clanricarde estate, Ireland. Desperate fighting took place on the roofs of the houses, the police using their swords and bayonets and the defenders stones. Thirty-one arrests were made during the proceedings. Camomile Aperient Pills for indigestion, heartburn, etc.^ the Pharmacy Whangarei. — Adyt.

The following peculiar illustration of the law of average is given in "Social Gossip*' in the Australiasian :— " In London, when the season is in full swing, hostesses know to a fraction how many of theilr invitations will be responded to. The numbers who come are 66 per cent, of the women, and 23 per cent, of the men. Never more or never less. To the student of civilisation there is nothing 'surprising in this exemplification of the law of averages. About the same number of persons, year by year, post open and unaddressed envelopes with £5 notes in them. All business circulars are replied to in the proportion of 3 per cent; Guests at a party in a country housb always drink an average of a battle aha aiquarter of wine per head per day. Guests at a society ball invariably drink one-third of a bottle of champagne a head ; at a Bohemian evening party half a bottle a head; and at a "theatrical ball," pure and simple, two bottles a head. For the nerves, Quinine and Iron Tonic, at the Whangarei Pharmacy.— Advt.

WHANGAREI MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT CLASS. Ok Friday, August 31st, the class held their] usual Weekly meeting. &£r J. D. McKenzie, vice-president in the chair; The business of the meeting was a debate, " Is Federation of the British Empire desirable." The affirmative side dwelt on the advantage to be derived by the representation of the colonies in the British Parliament, and the mutual safety and protection that Federation would afford. The negative side on the other hand contended that Federation of the scattered dependencies of the British Empire would be impracticable and of no benefit to us in New Zealand. Mr Buckhurst condemned the action of New South Wales in sending troops to the Soudan to wage j an iniquitous war on a people who were trying to gain their freedom. He spoke as an Englishman not as a bond holder. Mr Kyuh expressed his belief that it was the duty of colonists to back the mother country on all occasions, Whether right or wrong. He would be ready to*morrow to fight for her in the Soudan himself and believed he would do to stop a bullet as well as a bigger man. He considered the action of New South Wales was not jingoism but patriotism, which we would all do well to mitate. All the members of the class took part in the debate, and what they wanted in numbers they made up in ferocity. The subject for to-night, Friday, September 7th will be a paper ou earthquakes, by Mr D. C. Wilson, and discussions on anonymous letters to be given in by members of the class.