PATEA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10229, 22 June 1883, Page 2

PATEA.

(FKOM OUlt OWS rORHESPONDENT.) JtJNE 20.

JVTr James Smith, who in a quiet way has fora long wlrlo past been developing a drain-tile industry in connection with. I brickinaking, has just opened out his kiln, and the result is satisfactory. The drain-pipes sre of good quality and have taken the glaze well, and other descrip. tions of moulded .rare have proved equally satisfactory. The works are quite close to the main road and adjoin the railway lino near the Patea bridge, and with the river close at hand, there is every convenience for quick despatch in any required direction. The Engineer to the Harbour Board arrived from New Plymouth on Tuesday. A. short time ago he was instructed to prepare working plans for a short length of the western pier, to carry out which it was proposed to raise a loan, failing help from the Government. At the request of the Harbour Board, Major Atkinson prepared a Bill to bring before the Assembly, redefining the harbour district (necessary since the formation of a separate Hawern county), and also to authorise the raising of not more than £25,000 on the security of rateable property. The Bill was of the usual permissiveeharacter. It isnowrumoured that the Harbour Board has withdrawn its sanction to tbc borrowiug portion of the Bill.

The chnnces of ilirough railway corn* munication with Wanganui are becoming remoter. The embankment which is being made across tho swamp near the Patea Heads keep 1 ? on sinking as the earthwork is laid. What was formlery a beautifully even paddock adjoining the boiling- down works is now very hummocky, for, as tho embankment sinks, the adjacent ground bulges upwards, as if bubbles were formed where the crusfc of earth is thinnest. The foundations of the boiling-down works have been displaced and the work suspended.

The main road is very heavy, and travellers — that is, bagmen — are finding out that, with the limited business at present doing:, it scarcely pays to run their samples through the district. An nlarni of fire aboufc two o'clock on Tuesday morning c-msed a general turn out. It proved to bo on the upper floor of Messrs Luudbcrg a^dCo.'s furniture warehouse and factory. For a short time it looked as if the lice had too great a hold to bo ovovcome, but, by the aid of the five engine and a supply of -.viifor -"rciiii 17 r T, r . Dixon's, all danger whs soon averted. Con side-ruble damage whs done by the wiror to tho fnrniturs, muoli of which is of greit valne. The in =xi an^o an the stock w BS but .-PWO, "■ v- (he d.imtigo is as imatsd at frou £ ;■ to £to\ ■

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The Patea school, about the only building now in hand within the borough, will prove a handsome addition to the present school. The present building has been f ay too small for the attendance. The Education. Board has also authorised other necessary adjuncts, and, as the school .is on low ground, arrangements fcave been made for effective drainage.

The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the Press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many ethers started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names, in which the word " Hop " or " Hops " were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word " Hop " or " Hops " in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the glass. Trnst nothing else. Druggists and chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits. — Advt.