BREVITIES.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 48, 20 July 1908, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Flannel in the piece. At Lescr’s.* Mangonui County Council meeting next Thursday. . Good stock of(cj4k aftd ffcjf hats. At Leser’s.* ;t\ • Two or three case* of chicken-pox are reported to have occurred among the Mangonui school-children.

. Men's oil coats, groceries, patent medicines, hardware, fancy goods. Lescr’s.* Rumoured that the Waitemata Sawmilling Company are considering the erection of a saw-mill at Paranui.

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

Mr. Solomon Broughton, ofTe Ake Ake, has ceased work on the the Waitemata Sawmilling Coy.’s rafting contracts.

For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6.*

The hoodlums who annoyed the dan cers on Friday evening broke down Mr Garton’s gate and damaged the gardei fence near the hall.

A big stock of Ladies’ and Gent.’s Umbrellaß. Worth inspecting. Loser's* Seven thousand black trout ova are expected by next Clansman on account of the Mangonui and Whangaroa Acclimatisation society.

Rev. C. Aker will be unable to conduct services in Mangonui, Oruru and Fairburn next Sunday but will do so on Sunday, August 2nd, instead.

The “ Observer ” says that Captain Subritzky’s motor car is known as the Queen-street Greyhound, The speed at times is terrific, and can beat the fastest handcart man.

Mr. T. Finlay, well known on the road as the traveller for Rosljn, will in future confine himself to solicitation of orders in the large towns and will no longer visit us as heretofore.

We are informed that Mrs. C. Harris has bought Garton’s Hall, Mangonui, and the property connected therewith, including the residence at present occupied by Dr. Forbes.

“Chelmsford” took the “Apanui’s” run last week and was late as usual, but the “ Apanui,” is expected in to-morrow and wo may hope to have mails delivered within an hour or so of the advertised time hereafter. Of all the silly proverbs Ae Whose shouhTj# diminished, Is “ WoniiVs 'Wk is lif/ei done 1” It shouM \ .Nvyrr finished !” She’s alw aye vjhF'kiPgr, understand, To keep tlte noiuVtogethcr, And has Woods’ Peppermint Cure on hand For colds in w intry weather. The remarkable strides made by the “ Lawrencc-Kennedy-Gillies ” Milking Machines during the past six years is shown by the fact that 1016 machines have been installed to date in New Zealand alone. During the first fourexperimental years a total of only 112 machines were installed, while during 1906 and 1907 the sales reached a total of 87-1 machines. The complete list of the names and addresses of N.Z. users furnished by the agents, is certainly unmistakable evidence of the continued success and increasing popularity of the “ L.K.G,” Milker. J. B. MacEwon & Co., Sole Agents, Fort-street, Aucktaud.*

Noxf Mangonui S.M. Court promises to bo lengthy. . Things political may be expected to liven up next month, Mangonui and Kaeo try conclusions on the football field next Saturday. Mr. Alf. Long, of Mangatete, was in Mfmgonui last Saturday. Meeting of the Mangonui and Whangaroa Acclimatisation Society on Saturday next.

Some attempt is being made to fill in the breastwork, in front of the Court House, on Mangonui Beach road.

Shippers should look up the N.S.S, Coy.’s advertisement and note particularly that Monday, 10th August next, will be a holiday in Auckland.

Next Saturday the Oruru Debating Society will discuss the question as to whether or no military service should be made compulsory. Mr. Watts will lead in the affirmative and Mr. H. H. White will take the negative of the argument. The cost of working the KawakawaOpua Railway last year exceeded the earnings by £912. All the more reason for the Whangarei-Kuwakawa railway being completed at once. Then the smaller line would be a payable proposition.

Mr. R. T. Wrathall addressed a meeting of the electors at Victorta Valley on Wednesday evening. A full report may be expected, from our correspondent, in next issue.

Mr. Lutener, lion, secretary of the Mangonui and Whangaroa Acclimatisation Society, is in negotiation with the government for the supply of some rainbow trout fry. It is possible that, if there be a sufficient number available, a quantity may be granted, free of charge, for liberation in local waters.