LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81829, 23 August 1906, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

PEE TEESS ASSOCIATION. Dunedix, August 22. At the Supreme Court to-day, Willi im Thomson, found guilty of shooting with intent at a man named Fibbis, at Kaitangita, was sentenced to two years. The Drainage Board is now without an engineer. Mr Manchester, of Melbourne, who had been appointed, arr'ved yesterday, and this morning, after seeing the acting-Engineer and the Chair .nan of the Works Committee, he de:ided not to accept the position, but to return to Melbourne. His reasons, according to a conversation, were that there were detailed plans of a scheme, and detached pieces of the work had been done, bnt it was not possible for a stranger to pick up the threads and carry out the scheme. Had there been plans, he would have been prepared to gt on. As the Board had nothing before it but this conversati in, and as Mr Manchester would no', attend the meeting, the Board adjourned till next morning, when Mr Manchester has promised to attend. Hokitika, August 22.

A most enthusiastic and crowded calhering w-as ] rjscnt at the Theatre this evening, when Mr 11. L. Michel, Mayor of Hokitika, was presented by his sin po -ters in the recent hye-clcc-t'en for Westland seat, with a purse of 210 sovereigns, and an illuminated address, setting forth the great appreciation of the honorable manner he coi dueled the caipiign. I'resenta tims W'l'e also made to Mrs Michel of an address and a handsome dressing ca ; e, and by juvenile supporters of a mitrbcl clock Mr Michel and family wore afterwards entertained at a great io'ial in the drill shed. Ike whole of ihe proceedings were characterised by great enthusiasm. Nr.t.so j, August 22.

A poll was taken to-day on a proposal to raise a loan for laying newgas mams in the city, when [ll)(i valid votes were recorded, of which 519 were cast in favor, giving a majority of IS2.

Wellington, August 22. An old claim maile by James Car-.-011, printer of Wellington, upon the Kovernmcnt with reltTcncc to certain property in the Chatham Islands, has hen revived, A writ was served upon the I'reniicr on the 17th instant claim:ng judgment for £lili),i.H)i>, and the Crown Solicitor lias liled a motion for its dismissal, on the ground that the action is frivolous and vexatious, and abuse of the procedure of the Cmirl. and that statement of claim discloses no cause of action, or alternatively no c niso of action against defendant' (the Premier*. The motion will he argued before the Chief Justice on Friday. HOLDS ITS GliOl .\1). THE FOLLOWING TEiTIAIONV I HUM SUN.UA IS KASHA" I'KOVEX. Can this be so? Is it true? Are the facts as stated !- These are the cpicstions that every man and woman in Xew Zealand suffering lite tortures of bickacheasksa- they re.ulthc published accounts in newspapers about medicines which claim to euro it. Whatever the conclusions arrived at. they can't flinch from or disprove the following, for it look place at Manaia. and the experience is that of :i local ic-ident:— Mr Donald Robertson, of Mamoa ('ale toll-keeper. Junction Toad, New Plymouthl, s iys :—" For twenty year: I «:t< troubled with my kidneys', which cuised me to suffer with verv bad l'aias in the back. At fine' llie.-r pains nearly crippled me. If 1 stooped I could scarcely rise again, and work was out of (he <|uesl:on. I swallowed enough medicine to cure a dozen men. but it did men, good. 1 then got Doan's Hack-ache Kidney Tills, and fheseseemedlodomi. good right from the start, and a short course ( pletelv cured my kidney trouble. Kvcrvhody round knows what I sulTcred with mv back, and now i 101 l I hem all that '| have no backache now, thanks to Doan's Backache Kidney Tills." Take no substitute.. Von want the pills which Mr liobertson reeoitmimends. Therefore see that the full name is on the wrapper, and that the word " Jiackachc " u iu the mime.