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Temuka Leader, Issue 1712, 17 March 1888, Page 3

A lad named Hewer wai drowned in the harbor at Akaroa on Thursday afternoon. He was out boating with a companion named Brown, and the boat capßized. Brown was saved.

At the Supreme Court, Oamaru, on Tneaday, Maria Loper plesded guilty to larceny, and was sentenced to three months' impriaonuieni. John Robartson Miller, for larceny of. gooda from a watchmaker's shop, where he was employed, waa placed oa probation for 18 months. Eli Jones, for unlawfully pawning a witch, pleaded guilty, and got J2 montha. For keeping -a disorderly house, Mary Coulan got six months' imprisonment. Two swaggers, marching through Mr W. Douglass' run near Napier on Wednesday, drew some water from a tank and made tea. Shortly afterwards they were taken violently ill, and when a shepherd discovered them ho removed them to the homestead, an he suspected that the naen had been drinking from the tank, which had contained areeDical sheep-deep. Douglass attended them as best he could, and then sent them in to the hospital, whero they are now lying dangerously ill. The lad John Walters who met with serious injuries by the tram accident at Wellington has died. Hugh Boss was fined £5 on a charge of raffling a pony in his licensed house at Anderson's Bay, Dunedio. The Midland Railway Company are at present landing a largn quantity of railway material at Greymouth and it is expected that active operations will shortly be resumed.

A tolegram to huod from Hokitika yesterday Bays ; —" There is a succession of heavy gales, attended with heavy rain. There have been no shipping movements for the week. The rivers are all flooded." A six-roomed house in North-east Valley Dnnedin, occupied by Mr Huokland, has been burned down. It was iniured for £IOO in the Equitable. Dp to date there axe eight offences against thirteen prisoners for the Criminal Sessions at Dnnedin which commence on April 4. Cable advices from Mauritius to March Ist state the suijar market ia dull and prices unaltered. No shipments have been made since the sailing of the Salado on November 15th.

Fee of Doctors.

(The fee of dootors Is an item that -very many persons are interested in just at present. We believe the schedule for visits is 3.00d01#, which wonld tax a man confined to his bed for a year, and in ' need of a dairy visit, over lOOOdols a year for medioal attendance alone And one siogle bottle of Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters taken in time would save the lOOOdols and all the year's sickness.—" Post."

TEMUKA FLOUR MILLS. "fTTE, the Undersigned; having entered * V i n *° Partnership as MILLERS & GRAIN MERCHANTS, Ma prepared to Sapply FLOUR (Roller Process) of GUARANTIED QUALITY, at CurreDt Prices; also BRAN and SHARPS. The PREPARATION of SEMOLINA is ' a Speciality with ue, and we are Prepared to Supply the Trade with Large or Small Quantities. GRISTING on Farmers' Account bb per Arrangement. HAYHTJBST & BEOWET, mr6 Tkmuka,

T. G. ROWLEY, su|rge;on dentist, Maim. Koa», T I M A R U.