BREVITIES.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 47, 13 July 1908, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Flannel in the piece. At Leser’s.*

Good stock of caps and felt hats. At Loser’s.*

Men’s oil coats, groceries, patent medicines, hardware, fancy goods. Leser’s.* Mangonui County Council meet on Thursday, 23rd instant.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. 1/6 & 2/6.*

Tenders for the removal of the old school building at Oruru close on Wednesday. The cricketers of Victoria Valley give a dance to their friends on Friday evening next.

The latest bulletin from the hospital states that Mr. W. Wilkinson is “doing remarkably well.” The N. 8. S. Coy. advertises in another column full details of their American Fleet cheap trips. Owing to inclement weather there was no meeting of the Oruru Debating Society on Saturday night.

Owing to an oversight no passenger list was wired to ns last Thursday, and wo were unable to issue the usual extra.

Heavy hoots for the wet season. Felt shoes—women’s, girl’s and children’s—all sizes. At Leeer’s.*

A county advertisement notifies the public that the Te Puhi bridge, Fairburn, will be closed for repair on the 2lllli instant.

Shippers should note that Monday, August 10, will be a holiday in Auckland and the advice of the N.S.S. Coy. in their advertisement should prove valuable.

The Mangonui Mounted iJiilt-s will be r epresented as a corps at the review when the American Fleet is in Auckland. Some forty have booked as passengers per Clansman.

“ We’il cut the Panama canal Said Uncle Sant, ft“ YqifT»/s»»'e shall! We shall; rk. rth.unw jf J The boss M But during vVtertim\ I grtap. For- coughs androids we eardrdo less Than ease the workmen’s wfiseziness With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.’

Mclntosh’s sale on Thursday. Or. Bray is expected in Mangonui to attend next Council meeting. Said to be fully half a million feet of kauri ready for shipment from Mangonui.

All the offices in the Commercial Chambers, Mangonui, have now been let. Repairs to Mangonui Wharf completed. Mr. Arthur Garton has made a good job of the work.

Mr. W. T. Lutener returned from Auckland last Thursday. He is immediately commencing business as a land, estate and commission agent. Heavy wo(ken?m<lenvM^viz.: Flannel Guernseys, Football Thick woollen sox. splendid Vnliity. At Laser's.* On Wednesday there will be a special effort to obtain funds wherewith to buy an organ for the Pukenui Sunday school. A bazaar at 3 p.in. at the school; a special post card stall with 500 varieties to select from. A dance, with supper at 11.30 p.m. Admission one shilling. The 8.8. Lyttleton is in port preparing a raft of some three hundred logs which she will tow to Auckland on account of the Waitenmta Sawmilling Coy. and David Goldie. The raft is estimated to measure over four hundred thousand feet.

The Mangonui Mounted Rifles do not now intend going into camp at Kaitaia but, instead, they will put in their capitation camp in Auckland on the occasion of their visit to attend the ceremonial parades in connection with the coming of the American flleet.

“ Joker” Harris has experienced a bit of ill luck. Early this morning a horse of his (Peter) fell over the cutting behind Harris’s store and broke its neck. At latest advice “ Joker ” was giving his old gee-gee a watery funeral—a tow into Doubtless Bay.

Our attention has been called to the difficulty experienced by manners entering Mangonui port on a dark night. It is suggested that the wharf light, if kept burning every night, would prove a very serviceable substitute for a beacon or other more pronounced mark for navigators.

The Aurere river is to be bridged at Lake Ohia. All the serviceable timber taken from the old approach to the Mangonui Wharf is being shipped to the Aurere for the building of this bridge. Looks as though “after many years” there will bo a bridge over the Aurere river but the contract is not let j'et and we’ve known the timber to be “on the ground ” for this work before.