BREVITIES.

Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 16, 7 December 1908, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Fruit at Laser's.* Batter market weakening. The Chnrch bazaar a huge success. The wool market is still hardening. Ladies’ gem hats. The very latest at Laser's,* Don’t forget to nqtioe the Clansman’s Christmas time-tablgl / Album of fPlMngonm and Whangaroa, The filling in of theßeach road breastwork is progressing. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. 1/6 & 2/6.* Many County road contracts advertised. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6.* An auction sale of gum at Urlich’s store, Lake Ohia, on Wednesday morning next. Hone Heke was ejected the Northern Maori’s representative by a majority of over 800. Mr Fallon is mentioned as likely to appear for the petitioners in the Victoria Valley enquiry. The local P.M. informs ns that hereafter every Wednesday a mail will be made up for Taemaro. A meeting of the ladies interested in the Oruru Church is called for Saturday next, at Oruru School, at 3 p, m. According to the Premier, the muchdiscussed dairy regulations are not yet in operation and have not been gazetted. Said that the Whangarei Charitable Aid Board’s financial position is very unsound. They don’t levy a sufficiently high rate. The house, garden tools and produce which belonged the late William Orr will be sold at Cooper’s Beach on Friday morning next. There was a meeting of the North Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board in Whangarei last Wednesday. We shall make some comments next week. An exciting finish to the Mangonui and Victoria Valley oricket match on Saturday. Mangonui had to play against time and Lambly and Matthews scored furiously. Although the “ Apanui ” will miss two of her calls at Whangaroa and Mangonui at the end of the year she will visit Houhora, Waiharara and Awanui very much as usual. Dates are advertised. An advertisement in another column definitely announces the date of hearing of the Victoria Valley Election Petition as Friday, the 18th December, It would be wise for both sides to issne subpoenas to those who can give the Court any assistance in arriving at a just decision. Frequent earth tremors have occurred at Whakatane during the week and Whale Island was unusually active on Friday. There is evidence of great submarine activity and huge land slides have taken place. Those living in the earthquake region are expressing anxiety, fearing an eruption. At the bazaar on Saturday night Mr. Burns, the Native school teacher of Taemaro, delighted those present with an exhibition of oonjuring. Commenting oh the performance many people expressed the opinion that it was the best of its kind, whether amateur or professional, ever seen in Mangonui. Beer and philanthropy evidently go hand in hand in the no-license district of Mataura, judging by the following advertisement appearing in one of the Gore journals: “Horse cover lost, between Mandeville and Gore. Reward, two gallons beer or donation to Hospital, on returning same to —— At the meeting of the Bay of Islands Licensing Benoh in Kawakawa last Friday there was little business. The Horeke hotel, under threat of cancelment of the license, was given till next meeting to effect repairs previously ordered and a sub-committee was set up to consider and approve the specifications for the new hotel at Towai in order that work might be commenced at once. The second Wellington wool sale opened on Friday. The most conspicuous feature was the strong American competition for finest lines of crossbreds. The quantities offered by the brokers amounted to 7603 bales or 600 hales more than at the corresponding sale last year. Compared with last sale prices for best crossbreds rose from Jd to Id. One lot of halfbred brought 1/-, and threequarterbred ranged from lid to ll£d. A few crossbreds sold up to 10Jd, and crossbreds from BJd to lOjd. As compared to the November sale, medium crossbreds in tbc catalogue in question showed an advance of jd to. Jd; other grades rose in sympathy, hut the prices above quoted are for top lines for America,

Mr. Letters, of the Cable Station staff, returned last week after a, we hope, pleasant holiday. A recount has been ordered of the Waitemata local option poll, in whioh reduction was carried by five votes. Cabled reports from Vienna affirm that Austria is increasing her army in the South near the Servian border by 60,000. The Maori election results are Northern distriot, Hone Heke; Eastern district, Apirama Ngata; Southern district, Whareati Uru; Western district, Henare Kaihau. It is stated that a movement is on foot by the “ trade ” to upset the no-license poll in Ohinemnri, on the ground of certain alleged irregularities. The price of beer has, in the meantime, been reduced to 3d for small and medium glasses. The gum market continues to show a fair amount of life. Shippers are willing to operate in most olasses and grades where brokers are prepared to accept fair prices, but in nearly all cases where an increase is demanded the lines are passed over. The Lyttleton has had a long spell in port owing to bad weather and her raft has been ready for towage to Auckland for some considerable time. Hard luck for both owners and crew as the latter must be tired of doing nothing in Mangonui these last three weeks.