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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 85, 30 December 1884, Page 2

The Shanghai correspondent of the Japan Gazette says : — "Two or three days before the naval engagement at Pagoda anchorage on August 23, Pilot Thomas was ashore at the Custom-house, and was talking to some of the officers about the expected hostilities. One of the Customs officers asked Thomas where he would have to be stationed on board the flagship Volta during the battle. Thomas replied by saying that he had put that question to Admiral Courbet. The Admiral's reply was : * You will have to be on the bridge with mo.' Thomas, who was ve.y stout, while the Admiral is the reverse, jocularly told the Customs officers that he had said to the Admiral : 'You are so thin that they couldn't hit you, but I am so stout that they couldn't miss me V And so it came to pass. The first shot from the Yang-wu passed over the bridge of the Volta, killing Pilot Thomas, while Admiral Courbet, who stood beside him, must have had a miraculous escape." The People Want Pboof.— There is no medicine prescribed by physicians or sold by Druggists, that carries such evidence of its success and superior virtue as Bosehee's German Syrup for severe Coughs, Colds settled on the breast, Consumption, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs. Any person afflicted, can get a Sample Bottle for 6d and try iti superior effect before ' buying the regular size at 3s 6d. Its wonderful cures are astonishing every one that uses it. Three doses will relieve any case. If you have a Cough or Cold that will not yield to other remedies try German Syrup and jou willbe surprised at the result. Its has cured many cases of so* ca'led Consumption which doctors had given up. It is sold by all Druggists, in the CifUjzed World. Advt.