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Dunstan Times, Issue 756, 13 October 1876, Page 2

The members of the Assembly have forwarded to Lady Vogel a cheque for* 200 guineas, with a request that she will, when at Home, obtain with it some article which will serve to remind her of her residence in Wellington, and be regarded as 'a 'small return for the hospitalities the bon. gentlemen received at her hands.

The news to hand on Friday {says the West Coast Times) from the Kumara rush is not so favorable as we'have hail the pleasure to report for the past few days. We learn that 13 shafts have been bottomed this week on the “ fancy line,”' none of which have proved payable. Hopes are entertained, however, that it may be traced running in another direction.

In many counties in Victoria the' system is adopted of holding the Council meetings alternately in the various towns of ; the county, so as to give all parts of a shire an opportunity of meeting their representatives. This system, if carried out in New Zealand would, we think, work well, and would prevent that feeling of discontent and jealousy that is sure to arise if any one town has, so to speak, the monopoly of all the meetings and business of the county. The question -with the ratepayers of Vincent County is at all events worth considering. Owners pf 'brood mares will do well to scan our advertising Columns, “which contain notices of some of the best blood in the Province, including thorough-breds, trotting cobs, “and heavy draughts, lit 'has been suggested to us that a walking show of these noble animals should take place at an early date. We think the suggestion a very good one, and shall be happy to render every assistance in our power towards carrying it out. That there are benefits derived from- shows of this class is admitted on all sides, and we think owners of horses especially will stand in their own light if they allow the -season to 'pass over without a show.

At Fullerton’s, within a mile or two of Hyde (writes a correspondent of the North Otago Times) one or two companies of miners have been prospecting for deep leads, and having found good encouragement they commenced tunnelling. One party (P. White and Co.) have just completed a tunnel of 1,600 feet in length, and have obtained washdirt, which they estimate they can get out in such quantities as to pay them some L 6 per week. Encouraged by this success, other parties are busy prospecting.

The Dunedin Guardian says—lt is exceedingly to be hoped that wo shall not receive a taste of tho new sheep disease which is at present raging throughout Victoria and devastating-whole flocks. During September, this disease—whether dropsy, braxy, fluke, or rot—had arrived at a very alarming stage. On one 20,000 sheep run, all the sheep have died ; on a smaller station they die at the rate of 300 per diem ; and it is painful to travel over a third station, from the number "f sheep lying dead on it. Several stations have been cleaned out by this disease, and on one a number of pet sheep have succumbed to it. Young fat sheep die sooner than old crawlers ; and-in no two cases are the internal appearahees of the dead sheep similar. If the disease reaches tho larger districts, the result will be dreadful.

A writer in the New Zealand Times says : —“An imaginative correspondent of an Otago paper quite lately stated that the members of the Opposition were “water drinkers.” If that correspondent had played billiards as I did on Saturday night in the room next to that in which the Opposition were holding a kind of caucus, he would alter his opinion. A more genial lot of gentlemen in political caucus assembled than are the members of the Opposition it has seldom been my lot to see. And though they took water during the caucus, it was mixed. The fact that Mr J. C. Brown, as well as involuntary listeners could make out, danced a breakdown accompanied by an orchestra, composed of Mr Sheehan on the Violin, Mr Stout on the Piano, and Mr Rees on brown paper and a small-tooth-comb, is no reflection on the matter with which the water drank was adulterated. I trust that no one will take the narration of the incident I have mentioned as tending to reflect on the members of the Opposition. Personally, I may say that those gentlemen never stood so high in my estimation as they do now, after having had the pleasure of being in the next room to them for some hours.”—Clutha Leader.

Advice to Mothers I—Are yon broken in your rest, by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, tt will re'iove th e poor sufferer immediately. It is per-ectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “as bright as a button.” It Soothes the child, it softens the guns, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the heat known remedy for dyssentiry and diarrhcea whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is IJd per bottle. Manufactured at 493‘0s-ford-street, London. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills,— Diseases of the skin.—No case of disease of the skin, be Its nature what it may, h.-s failed to he benefited when these potent remedies have be°n properly applied. In scrofulous and scorbutic affections they are especially serviceable. Scurvy and eruptions, which had resisted all other modes of treatment and gradually become worse from year to year, have been completely cured by Holloway’s cooling Ointment and pnrifylng Pills, which mot out the disease from the Mood itself and leave tl o constitution free from every morbid taint. In the nnrsery, Holloway’s Ointment should be ever at hand. It will give ease in sprains, contusions, burns, scalds, and infantile eruptions, and may always safely bo applied by any ordinary attendant