DEATH OF GENERAL SCRATCHLEY. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Brisbane, December 3.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 5 December 1885, Page 2

DEATH OF GENERAL SCRATCHLEY. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] Brisbane, December 3.

A TiiLMWAM from Townsville announces the death of Ma jor-( General .Sir Peter StT.itehley, High Commissioner of Now (fuinoa. (ienerul Seratchley, who Jmd been .suftcrin^ from jungle fevor some ten days, was rpturiiinj,' from New (Juinca to Australia in tlif steamer Governor iil.ickull, and died while the vessel wan between Cooktown and Townsville.

»Su)\i^, Decomber 3. Colonel Roberts, of the New South "Wales Permanent Forces, states he received a telegram only yesterday from Sir Peter Scratch ley, dated from Cook town. Sir Peter expressed hiint>elt hopeful of reaching Sydney l>y the Bth Derember, though at the time of writing he was in a precarious condition.

Str.i} rattle advertised by Mr J Hodgson, Hurnpepe Katepajers m AY.up.i County aro notitied in another column. lhe usual Chunh services at the Prrsb>tpriin and AVesleyan Churches, .trc ddixrtiscd elsewhere. Mr H. Cowpcr will sell in tho Cambrulijc i'ubliL ILill, t»-day, at 11 a.m., furniture, B>c , under .1 ilfatrcis warrant. K\siiv I*ko\hv —It i^ easily proven th.tt tu.ilari.il fever*, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgic ailments yield readily to this great dise.ise-ronqueror, American Co'i Hop Hitters. It repairs tho ravages or disease by converting tho food into rich blood, »nd it sives new life and vigour tho agrd and infirm always, §cc.