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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 74, 1 December 1885, Page 3

A Century of War and Lives Lost ♦ The record of a century of war and the fatal result and expenses are given below : Years. Loss of Men. 1796-1815— England & France 1,900,000 1828 — Bussia & Turkey 120,000 1830-1840— Spain & Portugal 160,000 1840-1847— France & Algeria 110,000 1848 —Civil strife in Europe 60,000 1854-18S6— Crimean War 613,000 1859 —Franco-Austrian War 63,000 1863-1865— American Civil War 800,000 1866 — Austro-Prussian War 51,000 . 1866 —France & Mexico 65,000 1864-1870— Brazil & Paraguay 330,000 1870-1871— Franco-German War 290,0' K) 1876-1877— Eusso-Turkish War 180,000 Total 4,742,000 The cost of recent wars was as follows : Crimean War .. .. £340,000,000 Italian War 1859) . . 6o>CXX),O«O American Civil War .. 1,400,000,000 Austro-Pruseian War .. 66,000,000 Franco-Prussian War .. 5')<),000,000 Busso-Turkish War . . 210,000,000 Zulu & Afghan Wars . . 30,000,000 Total . . . . £2,606,000,000 There M trouble in the fire insurance business. The Sydney Dally Telegraph states that thirty six out of the 40 companies doing busiuess in Sydney having decided to raise the rates, some of ;h.c leadin? soft goods and other merchan t g resol ved to form a powerful insurance company and are doing so. A threat to do away with brokerage has roused the brokers also. Continuation of 'reading matter on <Wipage Advertisments BEAD IT AIL. jT MAY SATE YOUB LIFE. American Company's Hop Bittors are the Purest and Best Medicine ever made. They are compounded from Hops, Buchu, Mundrake and Dandelion. The oldest, best, most renowned, and valuable medicines in the world, and im addition contain all the best and most effective curative properties of all other bitters, being the greatest Liver Kgulator, Blood Purifier and life and health restoring agent on earth. They Give New Life and Vigor to the Aged and Infirm. To clergyman, lawyers, literary men, labourers, ladies and all those whose sedentary employments cause irregularities of th« blood stomach, bowels, or kidneys, or who require an appetizer, tonic, and mild stimulant, these Bitters are inraluable, being highly curative, tonic and stimulating, without iutoxieuu ing. No matter what your feelings or symptoms are, or what the disease or ailment is, use American? Co's Hup Bitters. Don't wait until you are sick, but if you only feel bad or miserable, use the Bitters at once. It may save your life. Hundreds hare been saved by so doing, at a brining cost. Ask your Druggist or Physician. Do not suffrr yourself or let your friends suffer, but use and urge them to the American Co's Hop Bitters. Remember, these Hop Bitters are no rile drugged, drunken nostrum, but the purest and bext Medicine <>rcr made, and no person or family should be without it. See thnt the name Dr Soule blown in every bottle, nono other genuine. SUPPLY OF TOTARA PILES AND FLOORING. Public Works Office, Wellington, 27th November, 1885. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this Office until NOON on FRIDAY, the 11th DECEMBER, 1885, for the above Contract. They are to be marked outside, " Tender for Totara Piles and Flooring Contract," addressed to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington. Telegraphic tenders, similarly marked and addressed, will be received if presented at any Telegraph Office by NOON of same date, provided that written tenders are lodged at any District or Resident Engineer's Office by same hour. Specifications may be seen at this office, and at Public Works Office, Wanganui; at Railway Stations, Masterton, Carterton, Foxton, "Greytown. Feilding, Palmerston North and Napier ; and Post Office, Woodville. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Erigineer-in-Chief. TO BUILDERS. nnENDERS are invited up to noon _|_ on Saturday, sth December, for the erection of a new room at the Teacher's Residence at Upper Taonui (Bailey's Mill). Plans, &.c, at the office of Mr Edmund Goodbehere, F6ilding. ATKINS & CLERE, Architects to the Wanganui Education. Board. SMITHFIELD BUTCHERY (The Oldest Established Shop in the Borough of Feilding), Corner of Manchester & Grey streets. B. B. GIGHABD, Pbopbietob. ET> Ci DESIRES to • _L>. AjT. thank his numerous customers for their kind patronage accorded him during the past, and hopes for a continuance of their favors in the future. Customers waited on daily for orders. Prime Beef, Mutton, and Pork always . on hand. . . " BmaJl Goods promptly madejip. N.8.-r-Small profits and. quick returns. "1 '. FOR SALE. ' .I".' JA ACRES of Land, 1 mile from 4:1/ Makinp Railway Statuin, fenced and divided -.into' 8 paddocks/ with 6i roomed House and Orchard (1 acre), 1 outbuildings, &c. Apply to i ; JOHN OURRAN. November 17. .",'•...' „ '. ; <? '