The Ohinemuri Gazette. AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN WEDNESDAY, DEC, 6, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 653, 6 December 1899, Page 2

The Ohinemuri Gazette. AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN

WEDNESDAY, DEC, 6, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Owing to pressure of correspondence relating to the election, we have been compelled to curtail our ordinary news matter in this issue A school concert will bo hold in the Criterion Theatre, under the auspices of the local school' committee, on Thursday, 21st inst, the proceeds of wJiich wiJl.bo devotfd to school purposes. As it is some years now sinco an event of this kind took place, it is hopod there w??l be a large attendance. The reliable Family Eemsdy Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds. Is Gd and 2s Go*. Giving to tho elections and other contingencies the Secretary of the Ohineniuri A. and H. Society desires us to notify that the meeting of tho Programme Committee will not be held until next week. The committee will be notified as to date. Gooseberries, fruit, new potatoes, hams, together with a lot of useful furniture, sweet-toned piano, and a 3ot of useful sundries will be cleared at Mackay and Pratt's auction tomorrow (Thursday) at 11 a.m. The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company will open here next Monday for a week's stay. They have been the past six weeks in the goldfields and have met with great success. They are an old established Company, and do business on business principles. They have no tricks or schemes in their business, but leave a splendid reputation for square dealing and good remedies. From all the places they havo visited come good reports, and no doubt Paeroa will give them a liberal share of patronage. They give free open air entertainments each' evening. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and , 2s 6d.

Any persons requiring business or commissions in Canterbury, Otago, or Southland should note that Mr H. A. Mackay, of Mackay and Pratt, is paying a flying visit South next week md will be prepared whilst there to attend to any commissions from this district.

A sale of live stock, including six first-class springing heifers, together with other cattle, pigs, etc., will be hold at Mackay and Pratt's saleyards, Paoroa, to-morrow (Thursday) at 11 a.m.

Tho prevalent use of slang by all classes of the community is as astonishing as it is lamentable. Primarily it implies on the part of the speaker a poverty of English proper; secondly, a wanton preference for the vulgar and inornate; lastly, culpable indolence and want of care. You may do this with more or loss impunity with language, but you cannot thus trifle with a cold or cough ; for these Woods' Great Peppermint Cure is a tried and sure remedy. Every household should possess it. Sold everywhere at Is 6d to2s6d. .;