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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1006, 27 July 1883, Page 4

The story of Sir John Hall’s sale of his Canterbury property has doubtless got abroad, remarks the writer of * • Echoes ” in the New' Zealand Times It is not quite accurate, for the “ sale ” is as yet only a negotiation, which has met with a hitch as to legal authorisation for signing the contract. The amount is understood to he just over one hundred thousand pounds. Coupled with this is another story, current yesterday, that Sir John Hall had arranged to take the AgentGeneralship in London. Arrangements of this kind are apt to he made by impatient friends for eminent persons, whether those persons approve of them or not. All I know is that a change in the AgentGeneralship is not unlikely before long, and that the ex-Premier might be an excellent successor to Sir Dillon Bell ; but the fact remains that there is no “arrangement” at present. The' Wellington Post says During the land mania which prevailed some four years ago, a resident of Wellington invested in a quarter-acre section in a paper township in the Wairarapa, out of which, it is needless to say, ha has not yet made his'fortune. As a matter of fact, he had almost forgotten its existence, when a day or two ago it was again brought under his notice, in a way not to be trifled with, by a formidable notice from the Featherston Road Board. This consisted of a demand for payment, within fourteen days, of a year’s rates on the property, amounting to the stupendous sum of LO o*lid 1 Having this amount on their booksj the Road Board cannot be said to have been wanting in enterprise in endeavoring to collect it, since, in making the demand, they have expended a pennv stamp, and probably more than a pennyworth of paper and evelope. The owner of thp, “ property ” complains bitterly of the demand as being practically confiscation, 'seeing that the rates demanded amount to mo re than the entire revenue derived from the land during the year. However, being a law-abiding citizen, he has determined to be ground down and oppressed, and accordingly has remitted to the clerk to the Road Board three half-penny stamps. All he asks in return issaxeceipt for the money, which no doubt will .be lavishly accorded by ibe Board at the cost of another penny stamp and another penny worth of stationery. Holloway’s Pills are strongly recommended 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 pcrceptibleafter a few days’ trial, though a more extcpded course may be required to re-establish perfect health. Holloway’s medicine acts on the organs of digestion, and induces complete |he stomach, liver, pancreas, and kidneys. This treatment is both safe and cer- • ain in result, and is thoroughly consistent with observation, experience, and common sense. The purification of the blood, the removal of alknoxious matter from the secretions, and the exdtemcnt of gentle action in the bowels, are tu-sources of the curative powers of Hollo-