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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1043, 8 September 1883, Page 4

The direct steam service undertaken by ihe N.Z Shipping Co appears to be growing to large proportions already, as the Company are advised by cable that the 8.8. lonic is again loading at London for Wellington and Lyttelton, and is already booked full. The Tongariro, the first of the Company’s new steamers, is to sail from London about the 25th October, under comttiind of Captain Hallet; R. IST., for Port Chalmers and Lyttelton. The second of the Company’s new steamers will be ready for launching on the 3rd October, and is expected to sail from London in November. A vegetarian reports to the British Medica' Journal the result' of his years’ experience without meat. At first he found the vegetables insipid and had to use sauces and pickles to get them down. As soon as he became accustomed £6 the diet all condiments were put aside, except a little salt. The desire for tobacco and alcohol left him spontaneously. Then all his digestive functions became regular and he found himself wholly free from headaches and bilious attacks. After three months a troublesome rheumatism left him, and at the end of a year he had gained eight pounds in weight. He beUeve» be. c-< n do more mental labor than before, and that all his senses are more acute. For breakfast he has brown bread apples, and coffee : dinner consists of two vegetables, brown bread, and pie or pudding. ho re jokes in bread and jam, with milk and • water; and for supper bread, jam, cold pudding, and, as a boiled onions. Eggs, milk, butter, and cheese are only used in very Btmall8 t mall quantities. The dietist is a doctor, and hik’statement is drawing out very Bimilhr ‘ ones from medical men. It is •well'khbwn that a vegetable diet has an improving effect upon the skin., especially of the face, to which it imparts a plump, pleasing appearance. . This was particularly noticeable in the case of Stanley, the explorer, bh his retard from Africa after nearly two years of almost compulsory abBfittbWbe from animal food. * &fe aiid sufe cure for gravel or dHribry-troubles is Hop Bitters. Prove it. Read. —[Advt.] WjsLls/ 1 ' HRouGii on. Corns. -Ask for Wells’ ‘‘ Rough,on Corns.” 7%d. Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bifijipijs.; ’ 'Mosesj Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. 3 Holloway, s Ointment and Pills.— these remedies many case of sores, ulcers, &c., were pronounced to be. hopelessly incurable, because'the ‘treatment pursued tended to de« stroy the strength it was incompetent to preserve, *and to exasperate the symptoms it remove. Holloway’s Fills exert the most wholesome powers over the unhealthy, flesh or skin, without debarring the patleat 'ffbm fresh Sir 1 and exercise, and thus ' the constitutional vigor' is- husbanded while the most malignant ulcers, abscesses, and skin diseases are*in* process of ■ cure. Both Ointqfty. fffA . PiUs make the.Blopd; richer: and . puier, instead of permitting it to fall into that poor and watery state so. .fatal to many fiflyTfrig under (ironic ulceraf ion* —[Advt.] [ *