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Temuka Leader, Issue 1675, 20 December 1887, Page 3

A man named Michael Flaherty wa# killed by a fall of earth at a gravel pit at Papakaia, near Oamaru, on Friday. Hia neck was broken. He waa a single man. The Wellington deputation which waited on the Fire Underwriters’ Association, urging a reduction of insurance rates, have received a reply that the Association are unable to make any reduction in the existing rates. The Canterbury Rugby Union have decided to guarantee £l5O towards the expenses of the visit of the English football team, but if the gross gato money exceeds £250 any surplus will be handed to the team. At the Supreme Court, Invercargill, on Saturday, John James Meikle was found guilty of stealing sheep, from Islay station. Sentence was deferred. Meikle has for several years past been frequently before the courts in civil and criminal oases, having been tried for assault and perjury arising out of the first offence. This, however, was the first conviction. Yesterday ha was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment with hard labor, and a similar charge against Lis son was withdrawn. Michael Lyttelton, for indecent assault, was sen* fenced to 12 months’ hard labor ; Colin McLaughlin, for larceny as a bailee, totwo years ; and John Scott, horse stealing, to four years. Three houses at Coromandel, Auckland, owned by Mrs Mclntosh, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The occupants, Eoyan.Elbs and Bli"mere, with their families, escaped with their lives, but nearly all the furniture was lost. There was no insurance. The Goldfields Committee of the Chamber of Commerce are agitating to get the sum of £21,000 placed on the estimates for the Northern Goldfields, that amount having been granted to the Southern ones. Mr Ballancs is confined to his room, suffering from erysipelas in the head. Be is progressing favorably. During the past week a number of valueless cheques have been passed in Wellington. The police have not yet discovered the offender. The body of John Ferguson, a young man drowned at Green liland, Otago, on St. Andrew’s Day, was discovered on Sunday, near the spot where the accident took place. A carious rumor was afloat in Auckland yesterday to the effect that the crew of H.M.S, Nelson had become so disaffected and insubordinate, owing to alleged excessive drill during the trip from Sydney to Auckland, that it had become necessary to punish them severely, and it had been determined that the vessel should proceed to sea and not return to port till after the Christmas holidays. Later newa state that officers deny that the men were insure bordinate, and state that the Nelson has gone to sea for big gun practice and will return before Christmas. Advertising Cheats ]! I “It has become so common to begin an article in an elegant interesting style, then run it into some advertisement, that we avoid all such, and simply call attention to the merits of Dr Sonle's American Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one trial, which so proves their value that they will never use anything else.” “ The remedy so favorably noticed in all the papers, religions and secular, is having a large sale, and supplanting all other medicine. There is no denying the virtue of the Hop plants, and the proprietors of Dr Soule’s American Hop Bitters have shown great shrewdness end ability in compounding a medicine whose virtues are so palpable to everyone's observation.” Did She Die ? "No! She lingered and suffered along, pining away all the time, for years, the doctors doing her no good; and at last was oared by Dr Soule’s American Hop Bitters the papers say so much about. Indeed! Iddeed! How thankful we should be for that medicine I” A Daughter’s Misery, " Eleven years onr daughter suffered on a bed of misery from a complication of kidney, liver, rheumatic trouble and nervous debility, under the care of various physicians, who gave her disease various names, but no relief and now she is restored to us in good health by as simple a remedy as Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters, that we had ehnnned for years before using it.”—The Parent*. Father is Getting Well 1 "My daughter says;' How much bettor father is since he used Dr Scale’s American Hop Bitters. He is getting well after his long Buffering from a disease declared incurable. And we ate so glad he used your Bitters.—A Lady of N.T. None are genuine without a bunch of green hops on the white label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in the bottle. Beware of all the vile poisonous stuff made to imitate the above.— [AdVT.]

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