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Temuka Leader, Issue 1977, 3 December 1889, Page 1

Mrs John Hopper, of Mungaron, Welling, ton has been seriously burnt by her clothes catching fire while she was papering a room, Petitions are to be circulated by the New Zealand Alliance, protesting against the proposal to license the refreshment rooms at the Auckland Railway Station for the sale of intoxicating liquor. Duncan Morrison, of Gian Donald, Lower Valley, the oldest settler in the Wairarapa, was thrown from his horse on Wednesday on Blair Logie road while on s visit to his late brother’s, John Morrison’s, people, and died from iotarnal injuries on Friday night. Mr Hobbs M.H.R., has returned to Kawakawa from a visit to Punipuni. He expresses a favorable opinion of the field a quar'z bearing one, and says that unless the Government soon declares it open the field will bs rushed. He is urging the Bay of Islands County Council to make a road to the mines. Frank Masters has been committed for trial at Wellington for an indecent assault on a girl of eight years. The accused nerved a previous sentence for indecency, and on Ins last appearance before the Supreme Court the judge warned him that if he came before him again charged with the same offence he would rocieve a very severe sentence, An ex-publicin named Walls (late of the Sandridgo Hotel, Colombo Road, Christchurch) was shot on the Port Hills, near Christchurch, while out hare shooting ou Friday last. The deceased was found beside a fence quite dead, his gun being on the other side. There is no reason known to give reason for suspecting suicide, and from the position of the body aod the gun when found it is supposed that the deceased got through the fence and was drawing the weapon after him when it exploded, nqd he was shot in the abdomen. Ho leaves a wife and ten children, the youngest about three months old. Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Debilifcatect Oomtitutiong.—Whan climate, ago, or hardships have undermined the health, skin : diseases are prone to arise and augment the existing weakness, Holloway’s medicaments daily prove most serviceable, even under the moat untoward circumstances. This well-known and highly-esteemed Ointment possesses the finest balsamic virtues, which soothe and heal without inflaming or irritating the most tender skin or most sensitive sore, Holloway’s Ointment and Pills are infallible for curing bad legs, varicose veins, swelled ankles, erysipelas, coaly skin, and every variety of skin disease. Orer all those disorders Holloway-’* remedies exert a quick and favorable action, and, where cure is possible, gradually but certainly arrive at that consummation. They are invaluable i,n the pure of scrofula and scurvy,