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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 409, 14 November 1884, Page 6

You can be happy if you will stop all your doctoring yourself and families with expensive doctors or nure-alls that do only harm, and use Nature's simple remedies for all your ailments. You will bj well and happy and save great expense. The greatest remedy for this, the great, wise, and good will telL you, is Hop Bitters. See. We learn from a Home paper that Mr W S. Davidson, of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, has accepted a ' seat at thejboard of the National Mortgage and Agency Company. ° Bishop Neviil will shortly pay a visit to England for the purpose of completing the endowment which he has partly raised for the purpose of establishing a theological college. ' Clinton races are to be held as usual on New Year's Day, and the following is the. programme :— Hurdle Race, Ll2 10s ; Maiden Plate, Ll2 10s ; Clinton Handicap, L2O • Handicap Trot, LlO ; Hack Selling Race : ,Llo; , District Handicap, | Lls ; Consolation, L 7 10s ; and Hurry Scurry with L 3 3s added. Mr Robert Wood, who received license to preach the Gospel at trie hands oi the Dun edin Presbytery on Wednesday i as t, was presented with a purse. OS SO sovereigns ou Thursday, previous t«x his leaving for Wyndh«n, where the Ohsrch Extension Committee has sent him to preach for the month. DrSalmond made the presentation in the name of the First Chnroh congregation at the close of the prayer-meeting on Thursday Mr Wood also received a number of valuable theological hooks from his Bible-class. He was connected with the First Church as nussiouery ever since he came to the Colony seven years ago. Jt Ilollmmifs Ptffa.— Liver, Lungs, and Kidneys.—Most diseases of these depurative organs arun from obstructions, over the re moval o£ which these celebrated Pills exercise • ' the mast perfect control. A course of them ' is strongly recommended as a remedy for' such chronic affections as liver enlargements congestion of the lungs, torpidity of Ihe kidneys, and other functional disorders which " cause nroch present suffering, and if neglected lay the foundation of organic diseases -' HoUovray's Pills are specially adapted for tte young and delicate j their gentle and irarif ving notion ranks them above all other medicines. In indigestion, nerrous affections, ' gout, and rheumatism these Pills have achieved >r themselves universal fame. Ihey expel all impurities f rora the blood, and thus restore cheerfulness and vigor. A return prepared on the 'order or Mf Holmes and presented to Parliament, E i T es in a concise form some instructive mfbrma tion regarding the Waimea Piaihs railway and the p«ntrQQp.Hakateramea railway, two of > the. district lines proposed to be taken over by • the Government. It appears the amount of . public money lent on debentures of the Compames w £7«,000 m tho case of tb« Waimea = line, and £20,000 in the case of the Duntroon -, Ine There is half-a-yWs interest due. on Jmo 1 ?*, 1 *? IT 1 Z n the ; being 3s 2 . On the. Duntroon railway • there has only been £1025 0s 9d paid by war at Antewst since the money was lent, and • there is £3023 9s Id outstanding. The capital is £150,000 in eaoh ease. On the Waimea : : railway £35,010 has bsen called up, but on the Buotreion line only £370. The net profits last year oh the railways— that is to say, the difference betweea receipts from the Jines . and the working 1 espansas, excluding Gov- . eminent subaiiy on the amounts let iable by rates— were, Waimea, £803 3s 5d ; Duntroon, sfeiOO 15s I>d. The rates derivable by each arc as follow : Waimea— lSS2-3, M7i6 11s 3d ; 1883-4, £4853 7s Sd ; Duntroon— lßß3-4, ' £281S 14s 6d. As to the amounts actually, re- ■•- oeived, the Treasurer says they have no intwt- . 5 matioa,