LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2373, 1 June 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ten thou and si\ hundred people visited the tourist office in Rotorua for the year ended March 31 st la |. The number of visitors w ho have made I the round trip exceisls that of any previous year. Cambridge is greatly disturbed ova; the selection ot a site tor saleyards. Tito mayor wishes to remove 'them out of the town, but the shopkoopois are indignant and a special meeting is called to discuss the matter. Prior to the conclusion of the Farmers' Cnioi: conference ol Wednesday night a hearty vote ot thanks was passed to the managers ot the I’resbvterian Church lor kindly allowing the delegate* the use of the tine large room (the Sunday schoolroom) lor holding the gathering. « A very amusing breach ol promise case was heard at Beltast. reccntl\. The olaintilf was the daughter ol a very respectable resident of Derryagliy, ol which parish defendant was curate. A tremendous amount ot kissing and embracing was proved on the part ot the amorous person.. Defendant admitted the rf. -cti i • i timacy, but denied that he meant to marry plaintiff. I'lie jury, however, awarded the lady £27(1 damages. No chemist, who sought in vast ages The phantom Pliih soldier's Stem Has handed down t lint which assanges The throat-trouble always so prone. Till W oods, after thirty years' trial In tests both exhaustive and sure. Discovered a charm to defy all Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1

Mr. Procter, the successful tenderer for the carrying out ot alterations to the Club Hotel commences operations immedi itely. Alessrs. C. Sandford and Company announce that a mid-winter salt beginning at their premises Maui W, street. Their new up-to-date -tuck J will be cleared at bargain prices J tie firm are now advertising ■ speclal line in silks. Further announcements will follow.* A museum of valuable spec!me ns end curios, valued at about £4 -,i£, lias been presented to Wellington city by Mr. E. W. Petherick. ot Ell ice-street, and lias been removed from its abode at the rear ot the late owner’s residence to tlie large upstairs hall in the Newtown Free Public Library. The citizens ot Wellington, in this most generous gi!v. I ■ '■ • quired a store of specimens, curt , Maori relics, etc., that will l.«-ne:it and interest the public tor all time, ksz So bad is the road along the ,i Trunk route that coaches ceased to run, and mails are being cari i< ,1 <> ; pack horses. A recent visitor to toose parts counted in a distance ot nine miles just this side of Taurangareie, 16 drays and waggons stuck, lliirtysix bullocks in one instance had to oo employed to draw a waggon loaded with 660 feet of timber! The bu»locks were hardly able to lilt tl.e.r legs out of the mud. It • . rad eight horses to carry the -wag- ol the last hatch ot English “navvi. s ’ st nt to Okahune. Miss Lorraine Tansley, ol Dannevirke. the well-known contralto v>»rlist, has just concluded a succe—tul tour of South Australia with toe Steel-l’ayne bell-ringers. Tin .*1 Press speaks highly ot Mi— I ' -my •» voice, and she i- < TU It Btl ■ launched on a successtul career. It is the intention ot the company to tour Western Australia, Tasmania at bablv South Africa, and after that New Zealand. Before returning to this colony, however, it is Mi-s fan ley’s intention to take a course ot tuition under Madame Jansen, the celebrated Melbourne singer. A very alarming incident ■■ urred at Nelson the other day at tin r< idence of a well-known citizen. >otiie coal was being used in a grate, and a child was playing before tie- bars, when there was a loud explo-i-u and tlie gloving cinders were scatter'd in all directions, At the same tune something was beard to -trike oae ; ot the bars of the grate-. I::v«-u- ---. gation discloses! the partly-flattenesi remains ot a .303 military cartridge-, which bael somehow got amor._ tlie ' coal, and thus found its billet. For. tunatelv the ba rof the giat* - is . struck when the explosion <>< ■;; i•-<:. otherwise the bullet might have--1 the child. Petone Borough Council. —Atemo--1 random from Engineer’s Office. Pe> l tone. May llth. 1908. Mr. H < Paliiatua. Dear Sir; I have pleasure | in letting you know that the tie-es supplied by your firm to t:.e above council have thriven well through the ; last winter and spring. Out t the - 1200 obtained only 20 lave luiltd, ? which is extremely gratifying. Hie growth has been remarkable a- I. lch s as from 18 to 20 inches and take tins k ’ with the hardihood of the plants tuily - bear out tlie statements made by » your representative who -elected too ? plants tor us. Considering the unsheltered position of our ground tho results have been entire*v satisiactoi y - —I am. Sir. yours faithfully. W. 11. , Cook Borough Engineer.* 1 For colds in the head and uifln- • onzß. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cal?, r Is 6*l and 2s 6d per bottle. 1 THE "TROCADERO” is the best s place ;n Paliiatua to get a Srst- ,- class meal Your wants attended to t punctually and with civility. Large stock of high-class confect lonerv.