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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 995, 14 July 1883, Page 4

Some of the newspapers here (writes a London correspondent) have been hauling the Otago Daily Times over the coals for publishing a sensational story about new discoveries in electricity, that paper having printed a detailed account of an experiment supposed to have been made in Melbourne, where forty scientific men sitting in a darkened room were credibly

declared to have witnessed a kind of

panorama of the racecourse at Fkmings ; ton, transmitted for their benefit by electricity. The idea, is no new one, but lam bound to say the story comes from Otago . via • the United States, and may have re.ceiyed some additions en route. It is alleged also that the tale about throwing •‘ sheep 'into a trance and suspending animation during any length of time, and which for a long time was almost believed in here, also originated in New Zealand, but my impression is that its home was

Australia. These jeux d’ esprit remind me >; of;(the famous hoax which, some' years . . pgOjfhrew the whole scientific world into * a frenzy of excitement about the moon. Some clever American wrote a pamphlet L describing a novel telescope by which our satellite underwent such a thorough exaipipation that its inhabitants with their buildings, modes of life, domestic animals, etc., were all clearly revealed and described in detail. It is said to have even deluded the famous French savant Arago. The Duke of Marlborough, whose death was recently announced at the age of 61, was educated at Eton and Oriel College, , Oxford. When Marquis of Blandford, Tie sat’in the House of Commons, on the Conservative side, for Woodstock. He succeeded to the Dukedom in July, 1857, and became known in Parlament for his endeavors to increase the usefulness of the Established Church. He w«s appointed Lord Steward of the R oyal Household in 1866, and held the office of President of the Council under Mr Disraeli in 1867*8, and he afterways was offered, and refused, the Vice-Royalty of Ireland, but accepted it on the redgnation of the Duke of Abercorn. The Duke was Lord-Lieu-tenhnt of Oxfordshire, a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, and was a descendant, in the female line of the great Duke, enjoys a pension of L 5,000 a year, the palace of Blenheim, and the honor and manor of Woodstock. He married in 1843 the eldest daughter of the late Mar-quis-of Londonderry, and is succeeded by sqn, the present Lord Blandford, who was Horn in 1844. Holm WAY’S PitLSi —The changes of temperature and weather frequently upset persons who, are most careful, of their health, and most particular in' their diets. These corrective, purifying, and gentle aperient Pills are the best remedy for all defective actions of the digestive organs; they augment .the appetite, strengthen the stomach, correct biliousness, and carry off all .., .that is noxious from the system. Holloways’ ‘Pills are composed of rare balsams, uumixed with baser matter, and on that account are peculiarly well adapted for the young, delicate, and aged. As this peerless medicine has gained fame in the past, so will it preserve it in the uture by its renovating and invigorating qualities, add doing harm.—[Advt.]