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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3171, 27 August 1881, Page 4

OPORTO V! N ICY A EDS. Wo pass pretty villas and more stately palaces on the water's edge, for Oporto is behind us now, and wo are rowing up behind vine-terraced banks toward the famous port vineyards. They fire too fnr away for U3 to roach them to-night, but somewhere farther up this wild river the grapes are growing hot in theQtiinta do Vesuvio. Wo heard the resonant blows of the coopers as we walked through the streets of Oporto, beating down the strong iron hoops that are to girdle rib 3of oak and heart of fire • and if we should follow far enough that schooner of casks wo would reach Alto Douro and find ourselves surrounded on all sides by The vine, boys, the viae ! A roamer is shn ' O'er wall and tree, And sometime:) very good comoanv. Such a visit in the time of the vintage, when the peasants troop down the terraces bearing upon their heads baskets overflowing with the purple clusters, would be well worth the trouble ; but now we will row down the river instead, and landing at Villa Nova de Graia, visit the warehouses of the wine merchants, where we will find port of any required date, ripening and changing from dark red to the brown madder esteemed by amateurs. Here, too, we will find the white wines Dedo do Dama, or lady's finger, and Muscatel do Jesus. We are accustomed to think of port wine as tho unadulterated, Simon-pure blood of tho grape. It may, therefore, shock us a little to find that elderberries and prune syrup are added to givj it tho dark colour which the Knglish demand; molasses and alcohol to add sweetness and dryness, and that it is considered a perfectly legitimate process to add a dash of vitriol to cut the germ of decay existing in sn.-h a ivch, fruity wine, and to enable it to cross the ocean without spoiling. The information is disenchanting ; it is like a glimpse at Cetta, near Marseilles, where any desired wine is manufactured to order, with the appropriate tint, flavour, bouquet and counterfeited label, correct stamp on the inside of the cork, and cobwebs on the exterior, and all so cleverly as to deceive a connoisseur. From forty to fifty thousand pipes of port wine are annually exported from Oporto, and over two-thirds of this goes to England. —L. W. Champney, in Harper's Magazine for July.

Consaltations. MELBOURNE CUP. rrOOPER'S CONSULTATION. 1000 Memberß at £1. Ist horse £300 2Dd horse £200 3rd horse £100 Starters £200 Non-starters £200 £1000 Payable pro rata according to number of subscribers. The above Sweep will be conducted on the same principle as Mr Hooper's former one on the " Napier Handicap, 1881, " all subscriptions being lodged in ahe Union Bank, and paid by cheque on tho eigntturea only of E. Priob, and S. HOOPER, Secretary. [A CARD.] -]*|-ELBOTTRNE CUP SEANCE 2000 MEDIUMS. £1000, £350, £150, Starters £200 Non-starters £100 All net. By letter only with stamps for reply. Results intimated. J. BOLAND, Champion Hotel, Fitzroy, Melbourne. J. J. MILLER'S CONSULTATIONS ON THE MELBOURNE CUP, 1881, NOW OPEN. The popularity and success of which are determined by the lollowing results received and disbursed during last season : — Melbourne Cot? 36,000 Champion Race 14,000 AUSTRALIAN CUP 2,000 52,000 Result slips of the Drawing are forwarded to Country Subscribers, and the amount is divided thus :— First £1000 Second .. £40D Third £150 Starters (divided) .. .. £250 Non-Starters (divided) .. £200 Total .. .. £2000 It is advisable to forward Post Office Order or tossed Cheque, with exchauge added, and stamp for reply. tiFFicn: Carton's Hotel, Swansw strebt, Mklb.urnk. Eailway Time-table. NOTICE. THE attention of the pubic is drawn to the appended copy of a new Time-taMe, which will come In force on the Napior Sectio of the New Zealand Railways on and after the 27th instant. C. B. & A IKEY, Distri -t Manager. June 10th, 1881. SOUTH. — ——- _ , 63 S3 stations. 13 5 7 a.m. a.m. p-m- pmfr'm Spit .. dep. n.2 2-22 2 Mapier .. arr. 11.10 2-30 Napier .. dep. 7.25 11.30 3 0 4-30 *Awatoto .. .... 8 Parudon .. ~ 7.45 11.50 3.22 4.50 *Boiling Down *Tomoana p.m, 14 Hastings .. arr. 12.10 540 .. dep. 8 5 349 19 Paki Paki.. „ 820 4 7 BroP 29 Te Auto .. „ 8.56 4-60 *Pukahou 38 Kaikora .. „ 9.31 5-29 41 Waipawa .. ~ 9.44 5-44 46 Waipukurau ~ 10.2 6-5 59 Takapau .. „ 10.42 652 65 Kopua .. „ 11.5 7.18 *Papitu 68 *Ormondville „ 70 Makatoko .. arr. 11.30 7-45 NORTH CO ' " ~ H I d STATIONS. 2 4 0 8 a-m- a-m- p.m. fr'm a-ikatoko .. dep. 6-15 140 2 *Ormondville *Papatu .. .. .. "'

6 Kopua .. arr. .. 210 „ •• dep. 6-37 230 12 Takapau ~ .. 7-0 254 25 Waipukurau .. 7-45 341 29 Waipawa .... 8-4 4 0 3;5 Kaikora .. .. 8-19 414 *Pukuhou .... 42 Te Aute .. .. 8-5G 4 50 52 Paki Paki .. ... 0-37 525 50 Hastings .. ..8.50 954 12 30 545 *Tomoana .. •Roilfiig Down .. "/ 62 Farndon .. .. g.'fo 10-1G -2-50 6 8 *Awatoto 68 Napier .. arr. 930 10-36 1-10 030 70 Spit .. .. arr. Slof ' 10-48 1-H0 *Fla£ Stations. J. P. MAXWELL, General Manager, N.A. Railways. Grateful—Comforting EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowledge of the natural lawi ' which govern tho operations of digestion and nutr* tion, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy dorters' bills. It is by the judicious use of such article! of diet that a constitution may te gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies aro flop.feig around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many i fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with puro blood and a properly nourished frame." ;'ce article in the Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in Packets, labelled:— JAMES EPPS & CO. HOMOEOPATHIC CHEMISTS LoNnov Alge-EPPS'S CHOCOLATE ESSENCE, for Afternoon use,