TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1263, 26 May 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[fkb pastas association. ] A Home Vessel. Auckland, To-day. Arrived —Barque .Deva (Oaptain Pierrepoint), 112 days from London. Shipping Fatality. The master of the schooner .Mamion, which arrived at Kaipara from the South, telegraphs that the mate of that vessel, John Ed ward Dale, was lost overboard in a (gale off Cape Bgmont on Wednesday lastat&a.m. ■ A Backslider. - • Wellington, To-day. . One of the salvation lasses eras to-day fined 20s for using obucefie language on Saturday, while intoxicated. The Member for Oheyiot. - . KajkotjAa, To-day. < Mr Mpllraith, member for Cheviot, writes to Kaikoura that he has no intention of resigning. An Unfounded Charge. Pat*a, To-day. Sandberg was charged at the Police Court on Monday with arson! and the police withdrew the' charge. Spndberg Intends having’an' inqpiry into >she affair tp clear his character. Ihe Holiday. ■ CHKiSTCHtTBOH, To-day. ' The, yolnntrers are having a field-day as.the sand.hilla. The wekther is dull, hot the rain is holding off. The holiday is pretty well kept.

According to Public Opinion, a police inspector at Odessa, whoso name, Dobri jinsky, deserves in spit»- of its dissonance to be mentioned on acoi-u.it of his cleverness, has discoveiod a n w use for the telephone. One day a policeman brought to the station a Jew, having in his possession a quantity of silver believed to be stolen. The silver was in a semi-molten condition, and had none of its original features remaining to assist in its identification. Hence, as the Jew stoutly declared the metal to be his own property, . the police inspector was put in a fix, from which all his cross-examination of the presumed thief failed to extricate him. At last a bright idea struck him. fie went to the telephone in the adjoining room, and, mentioning to the officials at the police-master’s office what had happened, instructed them to utter in solemn tonss, on a signal being given, the words—“lts no Smeliansky, it wiil bo better for thee to confess that thou hast robbed somebody, otherwise thy punishment will inevitably be more severe.” Afterwards, summoning the Jew into the room, he {tainted to the instrument on the wall, and told him that it

really did not matter whether he divulged the crime or, not as the machine would do it for him. At'this the Jew laughed outright, while the inspector placed a sheet of paper on the table and prepared to take down the confession. When everything was ready he told the Jew to pat the tube to Lis ear and decide .whether he would confess himself or allow the “ machine” to do it for him. Then, giving the signal, he returned to the table, when a second er two later he had the satisfaction of seeing the Jew’s face .turn deadly pale at hearing the solemn advice mysteriously conveyed to him by the “machine” and of noting down directly afterwards a penitent confession from the thief-s own lips. ' The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it has been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal ■ the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in evpry way trying to induce sufiering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money en the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word “ Hop ” or “Hops ” were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word “ Hop ” or “Hops” in their nameorinany way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.