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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4899, 22 September 1884, Page 2

The Te Aroha Newa of. Saturday aaya: A mass meeting of the miners was held at Quarfzville on Tuesday evening for the pur* pose of burning the effigy of Mr W. F. Buck* land, M.H.E. A figure, well made up and stuffed with sawdust saturated with kerosene, represented the member for Franklin North, and after a formal trial the learned judge passed sentence on the prisoner as follows for bis slanderous attack on the miners :—"Th© sentence of thecjurt is that you be taken from hence to a placa of execution and hung, then when half dead, you be blown up with dynamite, your remains, if any, shall then be burnt to the end, that you may receive no kind of burial." The above sentence having been duly pronounced, a number of the indignant miners forthwith proceeded to carry it into execution: amid the howls and execrations of those present. » : .

An error occurred in our list of gold returns published on Saturday, the Magnolia tribute return of 2ozs lldwts being From May and party, and not Raba and party, as printed. J

A cokoebt in aid of the Shortland Fire Brigade funds is now being arranged for, and will be announced shortly.

A child named Charlie Preece met with a painful accidenb on Saturday. One of bis playmates was using a pick rigorously at the bottom of a slope, when Preece slid down unobserved and the descending pick struck his right hand betweon the bones of the first and middle fingers, the point coming out in the palm. He was takin to the Hospital, where the wound was dressed. .

The Herald says :—The Trawler Torua- last Friday captured 80 dozen fish, at the mouth of the Thames nrer, with the trawl nets, ia three hours. It ia apparent that our waters are well stocked with fish, and the trawlers bri confident that they will make their Tenture a remunerative one. -

"You Don't Know Thbib Valttb"— "They cured me of biliousness and iidney complaint, as recommended. I had a »,«l£ bottle left, which I used toe my two littt girls, who the doctors and neighbors said could: not be cured. lam confident I ehoald have SM^ °De D^ h*if * W nofc h*d too Hop .Bitters mmy house to use. That is why I say you do not know half the Take of st£W£ °0' "°°m°" nd the"

That Husbahd o* Mihb i, three time* tfta man he was beiore he began using "Tells* Health Renewer" Druggi!t B . MoL, Mp , & Co., Sydney, General Ageati, ■