The Patea County Press, With which in incorporated The Patea Mail. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1907. LOCAL and GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XXIX, 21 June 1907, Page 2

The Patea County Press, With which in incorporated The Patea Mail.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1907. LOCAL and GENERAL.

“Be Just and Fear Not.”

To-day is the shortest day of the year. O'Neill's buckjumpers will show at Waverley on Wedoesday, and Patea on Thursday. The next Waitotara Assembly will be held on 26th June, instead of 28th as previously arranged. The annual return relating to the British Volunteers shows that there was an increase in the total strength of the force last year of 6,243. "Do yon believe that cures can be wrought by the laying on of handß ?" asked one man of another. " Certainly," was the reply. " That's the way I cured my boy of cigarette smoking!" A dance under the auspices of the local Druids' Lodge will be held in the Druide' Hall on Wednesday evening. The committee, who have the management of the dance, are making every preparation for an enjoyable evening. At the land ballot at New Plymouth yestprday the successful applicants were: Section 7, block 15, Omona, 1041 acres, 16 applicants, O. 1\ Eobinson; section 4, block 10, Omona, 824 acres, 17 applicants, L. Nairn and S. Lord ; section 1, bloek3, Opaku, 1026 acres, 18 applicants, E. Dagg, jun. Bandsmen a. "11 be interested to learn that the Wellington Garrkon Band (Lieut- Herd, conductor) has purchased from the Dresden Piano Company a complete set of Hawkes' Excelsior Sonorous instruments. It is a superb set and will no doubt win further honors for the band. The following is the instrumentation :—7 B flat cornets, 1 E flat soprano cornet, 5 E flat tenor horns, 3 Flugel horns, 3 B flat baritones, 2 E flat Bombardon's upright. 2 B flat contra bass, 2 B flat tenor slide trombones, 1 G bass slide trombone, 1 B flat euphonium, 4 valves. The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imital tions, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honor Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., ete. His Honor, when giving judgment, said with regard to the genuine sandee & son's euca ltpti extract that whenever an article is re commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not permissible to | imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish this to afford the public an opportunity of protecting themselves, and of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled wit nesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and bv many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merite, viz. THE GENUINE SANDEE & SON'S POKE VOLAiaE EUCALYPTI EHTBAOT. MILKING MACHINE FEVER. Never in the history of the milking machine i has there been such a crop of putative | machines as now follows the unique success of the " Lawrence-Kennedy-Gillies." Numbers | of hurriedly designed and imperfectly tested j machines, many of which aro based on systems long ago discarded are beiDg rushed on the market to share in the present harvest which tae " L.-K.-G." sowed 5 years ago. When j considering other makes, don't forget that until thev have bein worked for at least two years by'practical farmers, you are only buying untried machines on the reputation which the " L.-K.-G." established. I

A gentleman, being competent to j judge, has (says the Taihape Post) prophesied that within 12 months there will be 40 sawmills running in the Oha- I kune district, and that the population will I be 2000. When the late Dr Joseph Parker was 1 alive, he once said that if ever bis pulpit was occupied by a preacher who taught doctrines contrary to his own, the word " Ichabod " should be written over his church. Some practical joker has apparently (writes a London correspondent) remembered that remark, and to show his displeasure of the "new theology" of Mr R. J. Campbell, who has succeeded Dr Parker, he caused to be painted across the front of the City Tetuple in the night time, the word " Ichabod," in letters eighteen inches high. The work was evidently done by a practical signwriter. It required a 40ft ladder and the services of a couple of men over an hour to obliterate the word with the significant meaning. This touching dialogue was heard re cently in an English law court, when council was striving hard to discredit a youthful and troublesome witness. '' Have you any occupation, my lad ?' he asked. " No, sir." " Don't you do any work?" "No, sir." "You mean to say you loaf about?" "Yes, sir." " Well what does your father do ?" "Same as me, sir." "How does he support the home, then ?" "He doesn't, sir, mother does mangling." Counsel grew indignant. " The fact is, you and your father are worthless fellows; no good to anybody. Does your father drink ?" " Hadn't you better ask him ?" replied the lad. "There he is—in the jury. Third from the end." 1 Charges were made by Mr Hall, managing director of the Marconi Company, in his evidence before the Wireless Telegraph Committee. Trouble arising with the Admiralty over royalties, he said, the Admiralty had the Marconi apparatus copied. The company had indisputable evidence. Later, the Admiralty agreed to pay the company £SOOO a year. A German professor, coming as a pure scientist with credentials from his Government, was permitted to inspect the Marconi apparatus, returned to Germany, had an apparatus made, and tried to sell it. The Marconi Company, added witness, had 180 public stations about 40 of other systems, and last year sent and received 1,261,000 words, with a percentage of error of 0 - 42. He considered inter-com-munication impracticable, and opposed the Berlin Convention. The Government, he added, had not given them any diplomatic support, but had hampered them. For Bronchial Ccugns take Woods' Great Peppermin Cure. Is6dand2s,6d Liniments cannot remove the ieal trouble in rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago. Rheurno does, by removing the excess uric acid from the blood. Rheumo effects a thorough cure. 2s 6d and 4s 6d WholeJ sale agents Kemothorne, Prosser & Go.