The Ohinemuri Gazette. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2785, 3 May 1911, Page 2

The Ohinemuri Gazette. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two £5 notes that have been lost are advertised ior.

A five-roomed house in Paeroa is advertised to let.

A girl to assist with housework and wait at table is advertised for.

Sittings of the Warden's and Magistrate's Courts will be held at Paeroa tomorrow afternoon.

A reminder is given of the lecture on "No License " to be delivered by Mrs Harrison Lee in the Choral Hall tomorrow night.

It should be noted that the sale of work and bazaar in connection with St Paul's Church will be open afternoon and evening, on Thursday, 10th inst. No charge will be made for admission in the afternoon.

Mr fohn Talbot, speaking at a meeting of the local branch of the Farmers' Union (says a Timaru telegram), said that land values in South Canterbury were unduly high. In ten years they had gone up 75 to 100 per cent. He supposed the reasons were the absence of other forms of investment' and the willingness ot men to work land without a fair return on the capital invested.

A domestic servant at one of the business establishments in Te Aroha suddenly grew so despondent on Sunday that it was found necessary to remove her to the police station for sale custody. She was examined by Drs. Kenny and Axford, and as she had evidently a suicidal mania the nectssary certificate was issued—to be endorsed by two Js.P. —ior her detention at the Avondale Mental Hospital, Auckland. — Te Aroha Mail.

A strange sight was witnessed at the Mount Monah Hospital, New York, recently, when 200 penniless men attended the institution in response to an advertisement offering £$ ior a quart of human' blood. A fine strapping sailor was selected as the ont most physically fit for the bleeding process to which the doctors desired to subject him' and for about half an hour blood flowed from his arteries to the veins of a women who was dying of internal hemorrhage. The patient revived wonderfully, and is now in a fair way towards recovery.

After an orator had " had his name taken" in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, for taking part in a street meeting, he assured all those in the neighbourhood that the police did not know their business. It had been done differently at Colorado Springs. There, when he had mounted his box, they had pulled him down and put him into the patrol wagon. They did the same for the next speaker, and the next. They kept on doing it until at length they made a haul of 120.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 2/6.

Sweet are the uses of advertisement. The harem skirt as the latest " drawing " novelty is being taken advantage of to boom the Karangahake skating rink for it is announced that a lady attired in the harem costume will make her appearance on skates in the rink on Saturday next.

The following story will interest lovers of bridge : —A certain family were all devoted to the game of bridge, the father, mother, son and daughter playing nightly. The father died and the manner of his tuneral was discussed by the iamily. The son and daughter favoured cremation but the mother was b.tterly opposed to that up-to-date form of burial. After some wrangling the daughter exclaimed : " Mother, I'll leave it to you, " and the mother's reply was short and swift : " I will make it spades. " Consequently the usual little plot in the cemetery was dug.

11 In my district," said a delegate at the recent Sawmill and Timber Yard Employees' Conference at Chnstchurch, " there are plenty ot employers who approve the idea of an hour's mid-day rest for a horse, but think three-quarters of an hour sufficient for a man's dinner time. You see one they buy and the other they hire. They can get men, but they have to buy horses and pay ,£4O ior them. It I have indigestion because 1 bolt my dinner in three-quarters of an hour, if 1 bend down and break my belt straight after a feed, it don't matter, lie can get another servant. (A voice : Scrap heap for you !) He believed that he should be allowed as much tune for his dinner as a horse." (Another voice : You don't eat as much !) —The oration ended amid laughter. SOME OLD THINGS ARE BEST AFTER ALL. There have been many advances in medicine, many new and valuable discoveries, but nothing in the line of bronchial discoveries that can compare with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy tor giving quick and permanent relief. All of the ingredients are well-known curative agents, and there is no experimenting when we recommend you to try this old and reliable remedy. J. and W. Harp, agents, Paeroa.