It is said that tlie damage caused by the bush fires at Waikato will umount to £IO,OOO or £12,090. Two Natives nfc Tamahere, Waikato, were discovered attempting to steal a pig. A uofin named Graham, owDer of the animal, fired upon them, but failed to hit them. In the IbhI; Gszette, a Nelson lady, Mrs Mackay, applies for a patent for " exterminating rheumatics." There are a large number o£ cases of fever in the "Wellington hospital just now, especially scarlet fever, and extra accommodation is urgently needed. The nurses in the fever ward have no bedrooms, and are obliged to sleep in the ward with the patients. The School Commissioners report that they are able to band over £I2OO this year from the reserves to the Education Boards entitled to grants. This is by far the largest sum ever available from this source. None of the money, however, can be applied to secondary schools, which are in a bad way just now. Bush Fires.—The bush fires at New Plymouth caused by the gala have been ruore destructive to property than on any previous occasion. Several settlers have been ruined, everything belonging to them being destroyed. A meeting is being held ; to devise means for relief and to raise money. The rioted quality of the Ooffoe msde in the Cafes cf Turkey, France, end Amerioa is ohiefly duo to the fiict that only Fxesh Boasted Ooffeo is r.aed ; so that; none of tho volatile oil aud other cesontials are loefc. ABk your grocer for Anderson's Coffee, and you will have a boverage aliko refreshing and stimulating, as it ia frc-ah roasted and ground ft', the factory, Timaru.—[Advt. 2 J
e jtOSTERS of every description printed JL or. the shortest notice at the Tomuka Leader and GeraMino Gnardian Genoral Printing Offic^f. A LIDS of Description PriDted J at the Office of this Paper'! at tuo Lbadbß Offica fcarapa received
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2019, 13 March 1890, Page 3
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317Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Temuka Leader, Issue 2019, 13 March 1890, Page 3
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