LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1926, 8 November 1884, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Fire. AncKLAND, Friday Night. The house of the Rev. Jobeph Mathews, of Kaitaia, has beeu burned down. The owner, his wife and grandchildren, barely escaped. Tue insurances were, house and furniture, £200.

Drowning Case. Anuie Bergtr, aged 12, has been drownod in the Awanui at Mongonui. Horse Sale. Mr Buckland sold the following thoroughbred Btock to-day :—Yearling colt by Ariel-Queen Mab, 40gs, Mr Hunt ; three-year-old colt by MusketByronia, 20gs., Mr McGee; four-year-old mare by Musket-Pastime, 40gs., Mr Lennard ; three-year-old gelding by Feve passed in »t 37gs.

Weekly Market!Butter and eggs remain at last week's ! prices, viz : Butter, Is per lb (wholesale), and lOd (retail); eggs, lOd (wholesaled and la (retail). Sharps and br*n h»v'e both declined to £5 10s. Mr Bunny reports at the weekly sale of wool, hides, skin* and tallow :—First* class stout hides, 3£d to 4gd ; light and inferior, 2|d to 3Jd; calfskins, 3Jd to 4d; butchers skius, 4s lOd to 5s 3d ; station skins, Is 2d to 3s 9d ; tallow. 24i to 24f 6d the cwt.

As extraordinary discovery had besn made in the parish church of Stourmoufch, near Wingham, Kent, a nest of bees being uncovered in the roof of the chancel. Its existence was known to the officials, but no idea seems to have been formed as to its size. However, the vicar died, and as the church had to undergo repair, the bees were destroyed by fumigation, and on the honey being taken there waus found to be nearly 2cwt of it. It is stated that dur« ing hot weather the honey used to drop down on the floor. I

August Flower. The most miserable beiogt in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than seventy-five per cent of the people are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects; such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Heart-burn, Waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, &c. Go to your Druggist and get a bottle of August Flower. This valuable medicine has cured thousands and thousands of sufferers and is known in all civilised countries. Two doses will relieve yon. It costs only 3s 6d a battle. SampU bottles 6d,