TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 792, 14 November 1882, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] Tie Main Trunk Line. Christchurch. To-day, A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited bn the Minister for Pnulio Works this morning with reference to the extension northwards of the main trank line. Middle Island Railway. Mr Johdatone assured the deputation that tiie Commission was entirely unfettered, and was empowered to consider all possible routes, also that Government are not committed by any expenditure or any surveys, to the East Coast line beyond the red post, and could not incur any liabilities beyond the vote in the Appropriation Act. The Betting Machine. Dunedin, To-day. For running a totalisator on the Melbourne Cup, Robert Perie, hairdresser, was fined L 25, or in default one month’s imprisonment.

A Strange Will. The following clause was found in the will of a Yorkshire rector ;—“ Seeing that my daughter ;has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare up to her elbows, my will is that should she continue after my death in this violation of the modesty of her sex, all the goods, chattels, money, lands, and all other things that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the eldest son of my sister Caroline. Should any one take exception to this as being too severe, I answer that license in the dress of a woman is a mark of a depraved mind.”

Death of “Arthur Sketchley.”—lt will be seen from a cablegram received this afternoon, and which appears in our telegraphic column, that Arthur SketchTey (George Rose) is dead. Me Rose had made; a considerable reputation for himself by his “Mrs Brown” sketch as, which were originally contributed to the London Fun, and which hit the popular taste so much that the author republished them in book form, and afterwards brought out quite a number of little volumes describing the impressions of Mrs Brown on men and things both at home and abroad. The author cannot be credited with great originality, for Dickens had already introduced his Mrs Gamp to the reading public, and Mrs Brown is but a poor imitation of the former celebrated lady. However, M r Bose's ’ writings undoubtedly possessed merit, and must have brought grist to the mill. He made the tour of the Australian colonies two or three years ago, and travelled through New Zealand giving readings from his “ Mrs Brown ” series en route. The latter old lady no sooner got Home than she published her reminiscences, and her comments on colonials (especially those of Hew Zealand) were not flattering., Mr Bose was about 70 years of age, and a capital: lecturer, full of fun. He has had ; many'imitators, not one of whom can approach him. in the peculiar line he had chalked out for himself.

Holloways Ointment and Pills. — Diseases of the Bowels.—A remedy, which has been tested and proved in a thousand different ways, capable of eradicting poisonous taints from ulcers and healing them up, merits a trial of its capacity for extracting the internal corruptions from the bowels. On rubbing Holloway’s Ointment repeatedly on the abdomen a rash appears, and as it thickens,the sdvine irritability subsides. Acting as a derivative, this unguent draws to ’ the surface, releases the tender intestines from all acrid matters, and prevents inflammation, dysentery, and piles, for which blistering was the oldfashioned, though successful treatment, now from its painfulness fallen into disuse, the discovery of this Ointment having prodr ; med a remedy possessing equally derivative, yet. perfectly painless powers.—[Advl.]

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