BREVITIES.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Factory butter at 1/3 per lb. Flannel in the piece. At Loser's.* The tug Lyttleton is in port for a raft of logs.,

The usual influx of lawyers for the Courts. Trying, isn’t it ?

Mangonui S.M. Court on Wednesday is expected to be interesting. A contributed article on the Traffic bylaws is promised for next week’s issue. Mr, R. H. Bowman, of Herekino, has resigned from the Mitchelson Company’s staff,

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

A little blessing to an aspirant for Parliamentary honors; to Mr, and Mrs. John Garton, a daughter. Our footballers will gc anywhere and do anything, no matter wind and weather, as witness last Saturday’s trip to Kaeo per Irvine’s launch. Mr. Gallichan, the Diberal and Dabour (Government) Organiser, will address the electors in McKay’s Hall on Wednesday night next.

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

We learn that another young whale has arrived at Waipapakauri, a gum sorting class of whale, this. Congratulations or condolences; which is it George ?

A ratepayer is anxious to know why certain Charitable Aid cases have been adjourned again and again in the Kaitaia S.M, Court, Can anyone inform us ?

No arrangements appear to have been made for the consecration of the Mangonui cemetery, Surely this should be attended to at on^. Men’s oil coitsj patent medicines, hardware, (hncjiigoods. Descr’s.* Mangonui County don’t encourage the attendance of the public at Council meetings. Very little seating accommodation and uncomfortable at that.

Dr. Eccles visited Mangonui last wsek. Our old friend looks jolly, happy and prosperous, and is full of' keenness for his volunteers.

Mr. Hazard’s new hall at Peria will shortly he opened. The energetic and hospitable owner gives a social and dance to celebrate the event. A splendid evening may be anticipated. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. 1/6 & 2/6.*

Mr. T. S. Houston told Councillors last Thursday that the Ahipara to Awanui road is thirty percent, better in condition now than it was two years ago. We’re so glad but we aren’t travelling that way at present.

The delay in the building of the new Awanui Wharf is outrageous, disgusting, intolerable. Negotiations as to the site still continue and had the Council forced matters under the Public Works Act proceedings could not possibly have been slower.

A big stock of Dadies’ and Gent.’s Umbrellas. Worth inspecting, Deser’s*

Mr. Willie Ford, who cut his foot with an axe, while bush felling for his brother Mr Chris Ford, some time back, is still staying at Mrs. Kirtlan’s, Kaitaia. Medical aid is available and efficient but the patient is said to be progressing none too satisfactorily.

The June report of the Mangonui Hospital gives seven patients as having received treatment. Four patients (three male and one female) were received and two were discharged, cured. One incurable was fonvared to a Roman Catholic Institution in Auckland.

As for wit and /' Humour good | / Bet a fyit and , / Btek Tap Jlood .’ W Audits Hodd’s greijj Humour’s 1W67 So is Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure!

The death of Mr. Nelson Hayter from cancer occurred at the Mangonui Hospital on Friday last, interment taking place in the. new Mangonui cemetery on Saturday. Deceased had for many years been resident at Lake Ohia and was ono of the earliest of the Aurere settlers. Hard working, industrious and honest, Nelson Hayter earned the respect of all who met him and his death will be regretted by all with whom he was intimately acquainted.

It is good to learn that Mr. John Wilkinson, who is in the hospital under treatment, is progressing fairly satisfactorily. At Mr. Long’s mill some ten days back the hauling machinery entangled and badly crushed Mr. Wilkinson’s right foot all the toes being severely injured, and it will be some time before he can hope to be about again. Altogether the case is a nasty one ; the only mercy being that amputation of the foot is unnecessary. This would have been compulsory had the injury been only a little more severe.

Mr. Bartlett, the well-known Auckland photographer, in order to meet the convenience of country residents, during Fleet week has decided to give them entire preference of appointment for being photographed at his Studio during that period. A visit to the Bartlett Studio is rendered doubly attractive by the recent introduction of the exquisite “Mezzotone” portraiture, which is the very latest thing in photography.

Mangonui Mounteds parado for embarkation of horses at 1 p.m. on Thursday at Mangonui.

New Zealand beat Great Britain by 29 to nil on Saturday. As hollow and onesided a game of football as has ever been seen in Auckland.

The Clansman will make her trip of the 6th August a daylight one, and ploasuro seekers going to Auckland to view the American fleet should look to it that they book their passages immediately. The County Valuation Rolls supplied by the government are said to be very unsatisfactory. The Clerks of the Valuation Department appear to have no knowledge of the Bush and Swamp Act and forget to mark the rolls in cases where Crown land has been leased unde» this Act,

At the last Council meeting a councillor, arguing in favor of the ballot of the ratepayers regarding the heavy traffic by-laws, remarked, “This doesn’t comnut us to anything.” But thus do councillors commit themselves to oblivion at election time.

Mangonui football team played Kaeo on Saturday last. The game was a mud scramble throughout with little opportunity to display finished footer. Bert Mebb secured a try and Jack Penney another which he converted, the match ending Mangonui 8, Kaeo nil. Mr. H K. Ridings officiated with the whistle to general satisfaction. The boys speck L° Kuco hospitality and say that Mr. John Jecentho did them real well. Altogether “a tip-top outing, ram, wind and storm notwithstanding.” ’

The recent improvements in milking machines introduoed by Mr. Gillies of Lawrence-Kennody fame, are of great importance to the small dairy farmer The great reduction effected in the power brings the “ L.K.G.” machine within the reach of the man with 20 cows, or even less. Many farmers already possess a small one or two horse power steam boiler for operating their separator, and this power is ample to work ono or even two “L.K.G.” pulsators. The cost of installing a small plant under these circumstances is very trifling, and is well worth the consideration of every dairy farmer. J. B. Mac Ewan and Co., Sole Agents, Fort-street, Auckland.*