PRESS PICKINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 308, 27 November 1883, Page 2

PRESS PICKINGS.

♦ — . It is reported that diamonds hare been discovered at Mount Earaslaw, at the head of Lake Wakatipu. The best value for money, in ready made Boots and Shoes, is to be obtained- at C. W. Bowtell's Boot Manufactory, next Colonial Bank, Gore. Inspection , iuvited. Com* petition defied.— Advt. If we may judge from the local paper the experiment «| single judging.at the Oamaru Agricultural Show ha 9 given unmixed satisfaction. Speaking of that in the Leicester sheep class, the 'Mail' says :— We congratulate the Association ;on the result of their trial of the plan of having but one judge in this class, and Mr MfcKercher, who acted in that capacity, for the impartial and intelligent manner in which he performed his onwoul duties. : ; : • .". . '„'•-.} In the Connecticut Tillage of Stratford, there seems 'to have lived a man who was quite as great as the one that made tha Enlish Stratford famous. ItjyntEbe sceriby the following "epitaph that he quite got ahead of Newten. Tae inscription reads :" Dedicated to the memory of Stephen Burroughs^ Esq., a man .distinguished, for his . industry" and his talents and acquirements ; sell-taught and original; he explored the vast fielcfof mathematics and astronomical scaencs , beyond all the efforts of a" Cassini or a* JTewton, and made-discoveries of the. most; useful and astonishing nature, but on' account of* blindness his discoveries are lost to the world." Wells' "Rou^h on. Cobns."-— Ask for Wells' " Rough on Corns." Quick relief, < complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, ' bunions. Moses, Sfoss and Co., Bjdntf t GeneraliAgenja, ■.• » ■■■„:■