LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8062, 23 November 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The bye-electi n fur the Manukau 6eat

lias been fixed for December 6th. r Messrs King and Co. hold a sale to-mor-B row at their auction mart, Hamilton, of 1 boots, drripdry and poultry, etc. 0 A clearing sale of household furnitu-e r on account of a client leaving the district, will bo held by Messrs Davis and Co., tomorrow, also some first-class Christmas poultry, ladies' and gent's bicycles, r - cubator, horses etc. See advertisement in - this issue. At Pirongia, on Wednesday, the Nev Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company hold their stick sale. Three- " year-old fresh steers, fronh empty cows, springing heifers and young cattle will le yarded, as well as young pigs, horse., I implements, vehicle-, etc. Ihe sale starts j at 12 o'clock sharp.

A telegram has been received from the ll'in. G. Fowlda, st.,tiii!< tbat the Hon. K. McXab, Minister of Lands will deliver an addreisin Hamilton on Wednesday evening next. Mr McXab's visit ti Hamilton was to have been on Thursday but in consequence of the Town 11 ill beirg engaged on thit evening, Mr McNTab wis asked to give h>s address here on Wednesday evening, which he baa consented to do.

KrC. F. Hond, Btc.tiocor, of Victori - street, HainiltoD has le.tely Jopeaed his stock of Christmas novelties, leather gooda, toys, award bo)ks, ana annuals. For the better display of these ware., Mr Bond has had alterations made t) the interior of his already largo shop by taking iu the room formerly occupied by Mr 11. Koch", laud and estate agent. By giv.ng more djor spac 1 , this will to a great extent ■[ i awhy with the inconvenient crowding of cuitomers which take.i away ao much ot tho pleasures yf Yuletidn shopping.

A deputation from the National League, Auckland, c usisting of >i r Ley laud, President, and Mr C. H. Poole, M tili, will attend the meeting ot the Lmpi:e and National Service League to be held in the Old Borough Council Chambers to-morrow night at 8 o'clock. Trie local League earnestly desire that an arrangement may be made whereby the two Leagues may work hand in hand for the purpose • f attaining the great national ideal which they have eet before themselves. Thi public are cordially invited to attend an ■ it is hoped that they will be present in large numbers.

" W.H.S." writes to theTaranaki Herald —Wednesday, t'-e 7 h inst, waa the sixty flirh anniversary of the arrival at New Plymouth ot th_ »hin Oriental, 506 tons Capt. W. Wilson, with settlors. There still remiins of that hardy band one or two of the adults with, of Course, a fairlj large sprinkling of the younger passenger* Amongst the former I may mention Messr James and David Sole. These hale oh! gentlemen, specimens of old pioneers, are to be soeu uvery day occupied in theii gardens, or about their farms, in the usual routine of farm work, and keenly enjoy a talk over thti early days of Taranaki, with its ploaiurus and pains They have occupied these lands sire* IS-IS, or earlier, taking it up from the New Zealand Compacy, and arij, I believe, the only ones who have been in continuous t..pupation of the same rural lands of all the original selectors. HIGHLY BENEFICIAL, Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets prove highly beneficial in all liver troubles, entirely removing biliousness, and in bo doing will clear away nil skin eruptions, su''h as boils, pimples, and ec«ema, For •mie by W. Day, Hamilton, Thos Wells, Cambridgej Geo. M. A. A.hif r , To Awamutu; (>reen and Colebrook, Ngaiu - wahift; Chas. Leilas, TauniMttUUi ; T. H. Chapman, Kilukih',