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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 983, 30 June 1883, Page 2

The New Zealand Shipping Company have laid on the Doric for Auckland. She is sister ship to the lonic, and leaves, London on the 28th July. It is estimated that about 17,000 people pass through Hyde Park, Sydney, daily.-, A petition has been presented to the Supreme Court for winding up the South Australian Fishing Company. . The Governor of South Australia, Sir William Robinson, is at present engaged in visiting the churches of every denomination in Adelaide. • Notwithstanding the great number of hotels in the city, it is always a matter of extreme difficulty for a stranger detained from any cause in Sydney to obtain decent lodging for a single night. If anything is to come of Mr Twopeny’s proposal to hold an exhibition in London of Australian productions, no time (says the Argus) should be lost in commencing the work of preparation. The Mayor of Melbourne has ordered the coffee stalls to be closed at midnight on Saturday. Is it criminal (asks the trcdasian ) to eat a hot potato or drink a cup of warm coffee on the Sabbath Day I During the last 10 years the number of post-offices in Victoria has been increased by nearly 500, and during the same period the number of letters which passed through the post-office has increased from 13,000,000 in 1872, to nearly 29,000,000 in 1882.

Mr ■ Archibald - Forbes says that Brisbane is the nastiest city he has ever visited. “ There is not a street in the Queensland; capital that by day as by night does 1 not swarm with the wretchedest of fallen v, omanhood. The loosest city on the Continent cannot approach it in this disgraceful characteristic.”

During the last twenty-five years the Wesleyan body in England has spent nearly L 5,000,000 on church building, and an additional quarter of a million will shortly be expended. A new invention has just been patented in Germany to still further interfere with the burglar’s labors. In the neighborhood of a safe an apparatus is placed, which, on bein' touched, immediately starts an electric light, and at the same time uncovers a prepared plate, on which the burglar’s photograph is taken while an alarm is sounded. ‘ Holloway’s Pills are strongly recent* mended to all persons who are much reduced in power and condition, whose stomachs are weak, and whose nerves are shattered. The . beneficial effects of these Pills will be perceptible after a few days’ trial, though a more extended course may be required to re-establish perfect health. Holloway’s medicine acts oh the organs of digestion, and induces complete regularity in the stomach, liver, pancreas, and kidneys. This treatment is both safe and certain in result, and is thoroughly consistent with ; observation, experience, and common sense. The purification of the blood, the removal of all noxious matter from the secretions, and the excitement of gentle action in the bowels, are the sources of the curative- powers of Holloway's Pills.—Advt,