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Temuka Leader, Issue 1738, 17 May 1888, Page 4

The Auckland Ratepayers’ Association recommend reductions in the corporation officiate and salaries amounting to over £ISOO yearly. The escaped French convicts have been again remanded. An Anti-Poverty Society has been started at Auckland.. The laborers employed by the Greymouth Harbour Board have received notice that their wages will be reduced to 9s a day. Platelayers on the railway will be reduced to 7s. Mechanics in the railway workshops have also received notice of redustion, but the amount has not not yet been fixed. A Losing Joke. A prominent physician of Pittsburg said jokingly to a lady patient who was complaininv of her continued illheslth, and of his inability to curs her, “Try Dr Soule’s American Hop Bitters!” The lady took it in earnest, and used the Bitters, from which she obtained permanent health. Shs now laughs at the dootor for hie joke, bat he is not so well pleased with it, as it east him « good patient —Harrisburg Patriot. James Skinner Gordon, formerly ,e bank clerk on the West Coast, was committed for trial at Oamaru on Tuesday for the forgery of a cheque for £l2. Accused wae previously sentenced for passing a valueless cheque hart. Coreas, Golds, Bbokohitis, Sea., are quickly cured by using Baxter’s “Lung Preserver.” This old-established and favorite medicine is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions. For testimonials, see advt. Sold by all patent medicine vendors. Christchurch City Council are making inquiries as to the coat of gasworks, the Gas Company in that place not being willing to renew the present contract for lighting the streets. The best medicine known is Sabdhb and Sous’ Eucalypti Extract, Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza; the relief ie instantaneous. In serious oases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scoldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling—no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation ef the lungs, swellings, &0., diarrhoea, dyeentry diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globej patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy • crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others

It is reported that the big gis wells io > the north-western part of Ohio are losing | their pressure and taming to oil wells. 1