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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1018, 6 December 1883, Page 4

The following paragraph appears in an Auckland.paper:—“The custom of throwing floral bouquets to successful vocalists at public concerts has al ways appeared to roe to be a graceful method of recognising and rewarding talent, but, like "many other customs of an equally harmless natme, it iq open to grave abuse. Intent upon the pursuit of pleasure, I found myself the other day in a certain provincial township which shall be nameless, and during my stay there I visited a concert, with the objectof enhancing the enjoyment of my trip Scarcely had I seated myself when I was interviewed by a matron who was laden with beautiful boquets of most lovely were about to be rewarded in a country wftich was not the ptophet’sown,l allowed a smile to'grace my classic and intellectual features, and prepared for the ovation. But t was disappointed. The lady certainly did not present me with a lovely bouquet, hut with the request that 1 would throw it to her accomplished daughter, who would shortly appear on tbd stage, and vho would be annoyed if some flowers were not thrown to her. So charmed was I with the cool simplicity of the request that I readily assented, and, lodUibg round the rrom, I was surprised td fibd that, many others besides myself Had . permitted themselves to be utilised ab‘‘ flower chuckers.’ The maiden appeared, the floral offerings were piled •round her -pretty feet, it is hoped was/satisfied, especially as the Iqjjai £kper made a feature of the display.” ' Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities of the bowels, cannot exist when Hop Bitters are used- J • e«r-[Al>vT.] ointment and Pills.— XJiseases of (he .. Bowels. —A remedy, which has been tested and proved in a thousand difftawnigwigrf,,;capable of eradicting poisonous taintsironvulcers and healing them up, merits a tidal 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 alyine irritability subsides. Acting as a deridfiws 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 proclaimed a remedy possessing tcpiz\\yderivative, yet. toertctly painless powers.—[Advt.