Untitled

Temuka Leader, Issue 3463, 8 July 1899, Page 3

An Auckland telegram says that for the past month the mines on the Haurakc Peninsula had yielded £52,070 against £35,390 for the corresponding period of last year,showing an increase of £IO,BBO. Prom the beginning of the year to date th« mines have yielded £331.058. Unequalled and Invincible Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and ( olds, 1/0 Joe Finney, advance agent of the Maggie Moore and Roberts Company, was robbed at Gisborne on Thursday night of two £2O notes. His room mate, a young man named Charles Hirold Foster, describing hi i’self as a schoolmaster from Hawke's Bay, was arrested, and on being searched the notes were found on him. At the Dunedin Police Court, W. Sinclair, a lawyer of Tapanui, was fined 50s nnd costs for using threatening language to Constable Melville, whom ho accused of being an informer, referring to recent sly grog cases there ; also for using bad language. “ The Would Went Very Well Then” is the title adopted by Mr Walter Bcsant for one of his novels. Many people besides the famous English writer imagine that our vaunted progress is a mistake, and that the world went better before the dnys of i ail ways and the electric telegraph. Young people nowadays are apt to despise the things which were formerly thought to be good; but, happily, in a few essential things we continue to profit by the experience and advice of our fathers. In sickness wo turn gratefully, as they did, to Holloway’s Pills and Ointment, knowing that no new-fangled methods can ever take the place of remedies which have stood the test of half-a-century.