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Temuka Leader, Issue 1542, 7 August 1886, Page 1

Sergeant Fox committed • suicide at Napier on Tuesday morning by swallowing half a pint of carbolic acid. The deceased had been drinking' heavily lately and he went homo at an earlje hour in a state of intoxication. Fox was a Sergeant of the 14th Regiment and- vyas decorated with the Crimean, Turkish, and New Zealand medals before retiring from the service. He was Drill Instructor to the volunteers and was afterwards appointed depot master, and lately was immigration officer and had charge of the Refuge under the Charitable Aid Board. He leaves a wife and a numerous grown-up family, Weils’ “Sough oh Coens.”— Ask fot Weils' “E-ough ,0a Corns." Quick relief, '•ompleto, permanent cure. Corns, warti, bunion*. Rempthorna Prosier and Oo„ Agents, Christchurch. At a meeting of the. Auckland Presbytery, Mr Alex. Thomson, of East Taraa.ki, an elder, was seized with a fit of apoplexy and died in two minutes. The Presbytery at once adjourned. The deceased’s golden wedding was celebrated a week or two ago. Flies and Bugs, beetles, insects, roach#* ants, bed-bugs, rati, mice, gophers, chip munks, sleared out by “ Bough on Bats.* Kempfchorne, Prosier and 00., Agents OhmtohuTch. ft The Lake (Otago) County Council have passed a resolution that unless the late clerk produce a missing rate book within 20 days, he will be criminally prosecuted. Legal proceedings are also to be taken to recover £95 collected as rates, unle is it is paid forthwith. *• bough on Coens." Ask for Cells’ • Rough on Oorni." Quick relief, complete permanent cure. Corns, warti, buuioni, Kempthorne, Prosier and Go., Ag«nti, Christchurch, 8 A case of alleged illtreatment by a pupil teacher is reported from North Canterbury. A girl ten years old, daughter of Mr T, Bird, of Rangiora swamp, was taken to the township on Tuesday suffering from two large and deep-seated abscesses on the leg, caused, the father alleges, from a blow given by the pupil teacher at the school she had been attending. The Roslyn Tramway Company, by a large majority, have refused to sanction the running of Sunday cars.