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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1882, 2 July 1888, Page 4

The " European Mail " of May 11 oontains the following :— " A report has been circulated that while a gang of men were engaged on May 5 m dismantling some premises m New Bond-street, a roll ot canvas was discovered •m the corner of a disused cellar, and this, npon examination, turned out to be the portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire, which which was cut out of its frame m May, 1876, and disappeared under mysterious circumBtances. It will be remembered that Messrs Agnew purchased the picture at the Wynnlilllia sale for £10,000, some three weeks before it was stolen. In reply to inquiries at Messrs Agaew's, at Scotland Yard, and elsewhere, no confirmation has been obtained of the 6tory of the recovery of the picture. Messrs Agnew state that the last they heard of the matter was about three or four years ago, when they received from America a oommunication enclosing, m proof of the power of the writer to restore the missing painting, a pieoe of oanvas whioh purported to be a part of it. A book on South Africa, recently published, states that Kaffirs frequently bear very ourious names, such as " Sixpence," " Cape Smoke" (i.e., colonial brandy), and otherß which hardly bear repetition. Perhaps one of the most singular illustrations was given m the High Court some two or three years The write t says :— " A native named 'Brandy and Soda ' had been tried for murder and found guilty, if I recollect rightly, before Mr Justice Buchanan, the Judge President. Awful as is the sentence, and heartless as the man must be who can hear it pronounced unmoved, yet many, by no means devoid of humanity, for a moment Bmiled as the Judge, having assumed the black cap, thns addressed the prisoner :— Brandy and Soda, you have been found guilty by an impartial jury of tbe awful crime of wilful murder, upon the enormity of which it is unnecessary for me to dilate. • A life for a life *is the law for both the black man and the white, and there is no alternative left mo but to pronounce on you the sentence of death. The judgment of this Court is that you, Brandy and Soda, be hanged by the neck till you are dead, and may," eto. Keatikg's Cough Lozenges cures Cougha, Asthma, and Bronohitis. Medioal testimony states that no other medioine is so effeotual inthe cure of these dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bedime eneureß rest. For relieving diffioulty o£ breathing they are invaluable. They contain no opium or any violent drug. Sold by all fetttjltfi Jq tini ll Idj, fiD (| ft 9* W h«