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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 7, 2 July 1886, Page 4

We understand that Mr Smith, M.H.R., him succeeded in inducing the Postmaster* General to havo a telegraph line constructed to Tahoraite. This will he a great convenience to the public. The telephone line between Woodville and Kuiueroa will be laid on ae aoon as the Insjwctor of Telegraphs, Mr Bold, returna from the Tanpo district.

PAWNING A PA IK OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE. TAMES FRANCIS THOMAS lives f I in Pontiiewnydd, near Politypool, Monmouthshire. He is now 28 years of age, living with his mother, a widow. Some 11 years of age. then a mere boy. he went to work in the coalpit as a miner, in order to assist liis mother in rearing her family of little children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down in health, but the necessities of the family seemed to require it. and he continued to toil in the mines, suffering all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom being asthma, in such a troublesome form tlial the lioy was unable to lie in bed. Working through th day, and resting as best he could in an armchair during the night, naturally uadcrmmvU Ins constitution