The Examiner. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 13.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XIV, Issue 2593, 13 November 1896, Page 2

The Examiner . FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 13.

Parliament is to be dissolved to-day. The writs may therefore be expected by Tuesday at the very latest—they may be issued to-day—and then the elections will be in full swing. If you have not registered, do so tonight, and catch the morning mail to Pahiatua.

Our report of the Borough Council meeting is crowded out of this issue. To-day Mr Gothard was re-elected to the Mayoralty without opposition. Messrs D. Crowe, J. D. Wilson and Job Vile are &paken of as candidates for the Pahiatua Mayoral chair. Our readers must not forget that Capt Isherwood speaks in the Alexandra Hall to-night. A letter from Mr A. Reese, of Pahiatua, held overjfrom last issue, will appear in our next. Mr Jensen is to address the electors again on Monday night in the Alexandra Hall. Mrs J. D. Ormond and Mr Cooper, of Gladstone, tied in the sheep guessing competition at the show. The weight guessed was 360 lbs, the exact weight. Mr Gothard, the Mayor, received a silver cradle last night in honour of the birth of his daughter. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. Mr T. Hyde has added to his magic lantern apparatus an oxy-hydrogen lime light, and will take an early opportunity of exhibiting the new light in Woodville. At the Police Court New Plymouth on Wednesday a Maori was fined £'2o and costs for taking beer into a prohibited district. He pleaded ignorance of the law. The members of the Opposition intend to present Miss Seddon, daughter of the Premier, with a silver salver, weighing 43 ozs, on the occasion of her approaching marriage. We are unable to find room for our report of the Band cone ert whieh took place on Wednesday evening. The concert was in every way most successful and there was a reccrd attendance. Our report will appear on Monday. Mr Watt, of Balclutha, was in town yesterday, and addressed the Borouglf Council on the water - gas suggestion. He says that they can now play billiards all night there now, as they have Prohibition and no ten or eleven o'clock closing. The license of the Central Hotel was i on Wednessay temporarily transferred from Thomas Gilbert to J. Bottomley. ; The following team will represent the Woodville Juniors in their match with Hamua, to be played at Woodville tomorrow: —Loader, Stevenson, Bagley, Pease, Gardner, Halse, Bowden, Grant, Mitchell, Elliott, Hodder, Stace. Mr John O'Meara, the Government candidate, addressed a well-attended meeting of electors at Kumeroa last night. Mr Brown was voted to the chair. The candidate spoke for about two hours, and received several rounds of applause during his speech. At its conclusion Mr Lynch proposed, and Mr Collison seconded, a hearty vote of thanks to Mr O'Meara for his very able address, and that the meeting had confidence in him, and that he would make a good representative. The Maoris consider that the coming summer will be a hot one. They are guided in forming this opinion by the abundance of whitebait in the creeks and rivers. As our colored friends are seldom wrong in these matters, we (Fielding Star) would advise those who are dependent on rain for their water supply to look to their tanks. The following Bands have entered for the Exhibition contest, which the secretary says will be the largest regarding the quality of attendants ever held in New Zealand:—Newtown, Parramatta, Wellington Garrison, Cbristchurch Enineers, Stanmore, Marton, Woodville, j Nelson Garrison, and Napier Garrison, and 40 odd soloists have entered for the various events. i Mr Taylor had a very successful meet- I ing at Makairo last night. Mr Pillings j was in the chair. The candidate spoke j for about 2 hours, and was then subjected | to a good half-hour's "heckling," chiefly at the hands of Messrs Elliot and Smith, at the end of which Mr Smith moved and Mr Halliday seconded, " That this meeting acoords Mr Taylor a hearty vote of thanks for his address, and of confidence in him as a suitable represen- j tative for the district." The motion was unaminously carried, amidst applatuse. The programme for the opening of the Wellington Exhibition is that the Governor will perform the offioial ceremony, i and speeches will be delivered by Mr ! Brown, the president, and the Premier and the Mayor. A chorus of 500 child- j ren will give part songs. In the even- j ing the prinoipal item will be Mr Alfred j Hill's cantata "Hinemoa," and th» National Anthem by a «bonw of 4.QQ, I

Mrs J. B. Ormond and Miss Ormond are at present on a visit to "Woodville.

Mr Morton, of Ashley Clinton, has applied for the Betting up of a Court of Appeal to inquire into his dismissal from the? headmaslership of the Ashley Clinton school. This is the first case to be tried under the Act of last session. Mr S. Hutching has brought us in a sample of cherries grown by him, and fully ripe already. They are the Clare- j inont, a very fine variety, and very good to eat. It was a complete disappointment to ua to get them, as we had been told that the fruit had all been spoiled by frost and storms. But we bore the disappointment philosophically and are ready for any similar ones that we may huppen to meet with. We would again call the attention of the County Council to the state of Hoardings Road. Between Mr Boil's gate and the Manawatu there are several dangerous holes, besides two or three awkward stumps right in the middle of the roadway. Here is a chance for our new broom to sweep clean. Councillor McCormick will understand. " Confound it 1" said a testy old gentleman, " the proprietor and editor of this paper ought to be prosecuted; I was just reading a nice pithy little paragraph, and found it wound up by advising me to take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds, sold by all Grocers and Chemists; the price was only 1/6, but the advice was invaluable." 290u20 At a meeting of the Bacing Conference held at Christchurch on Wednesday a deputation from the Bookmakers Association asked that bookmakers, to be licensed by the Conference, should be allowed on the metropolitan courses. It was resolved after a long discussion that the Conference could not see its way to accede to the request. At Balclutha, on Wednesday, William Hay, the occupier of the premises known as the Farmers' Arms, was fined £4O and costs for selling beer and whisky illegally. An order was made for the confiscation of about eight gallons of whisky found on the premises. The charge against a groom of being illegally on the premises when the seizure was made was dismissed. Under examination, the witnesses in the case against Hay admitted having had liquor at another so-called boarding house and paying for it, and another information is to follow. The Dannevirke Advocate says:—" In the leaping competition for ponies at Woodville on Wednesday the judges placed Ginger first and Dotts second. The decision did not meet with the approval of a large numbes of those present, and their dissatisfaction was manifested in a style highly uncomplimentary to the judges. There seamed to be little doubt that Dotts should fairly have been declared the winner, and that Ginger was only entitled to second place." Our Dannevirke contemporary is quite right about the row, but it ought to have added that it was caused by a number of jockey boys and youngsters from Dannevirke. The present bids fair to be the best season in dressmaking and millinery i which we hnve experienced for some time. We would only state that we employ the same talent in each of these departments which has stood the test of years, and we think that considering the very general satisfaction expressed by our customers it is quite unnecessary to add anything further. We have always held, and still hold, the largest stock in the district from which to make selections. Our values are too well known to \ require a word from us. D. G. McKibbin and Co., London House.—Advt. MR HUGHES, Dentist, begs to announce that being now able to buy Dental requirements cheaper, he will reduce the price of sets of teeth. Terms strictly cash.—Advt. 11695 t Ladies contemplating a visit to their dressmaker, should at once inspect the new Dress Materials now opened out at the Bon Marche. Our Dressmaker is up-to-date, and gives our patrons every satisfaction. Our charges are fully ten per cent, below City prices, and we undertake to turn out Dresses that are a credit to this Department, and a source of satisfaction to our customers..—C. Sandford & Co., The Bon Marche, Woodville. ADVT Dr Jameson's trial is rapidly approaching. As to whether his action was a wise one or not is a grave question. The trial of Wood's Great Peppermint Cure for Colds and Coughs has been a decided successit is allowed by all to be unequalled—from all Grocers and Chemists, is 6d and 2s 6d. Wholesale Agents, N. Z. Drug Company. 241n13 OK.fi i'lo. .£lO. £5. Given 3iO\J* away for a single guess. Send stamp for particulars and circulars to Box 176, O.P Wellington. 1011

CLEMENTS TONIC HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. IS NOT A QUACK NOSTBUM BUT A BELIABLE PHABMACEUTIOAL PREPABATION. POSITIVELY CURES INDIGESTION MM*.;,, NEURALGIA, WEAKNESS, GENERAL DEBILITY, LIVER AND KIDNEY COMPLAINTS READ THIS CASE. Mr Bobert Hardie, Dunedin, N. Z., cured of pains in the back, writes on December 28th, 1894: —About ten years since I met with a severe accident, and since that I have been troubled with pains in the back and kidneys, and could scarcely walk. If I stepped out I would feel pain in the small of the back; I had to walk with short and careful steps. I tried everything I thought would ease me, but got no.relief until I tried Clements Tonic. After a few doses I felt much better, and continued taking it, the result being most gratifying, I have used only ten bottles, and am cured and in good health, and am not now troubled with any pain. I can also walk freely, and have found Clements Tonic to be a splendid medicine.-—Yours truly, Bobert Hardie, Dunedin, New Zealand. 291