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Not a bad story has recently reached the ' Bruce Herald' from a reliable source, relating to the early days of the Province, very shortly preceding the discovery of gold in Gabriel's Gully, when two old and still well-known Tuapeka settlers, then employed a.? shepherds on. thA TuanekA rur . are reported to have met in one of the out huts.- Sawney, who v/as anxious to purchase a number of his fellow-shep-herd's " coos," offered a price—so many pounds. The mere recital of the number exerted no influence on Mac, who thought ths sum offered to small, and with that Highlaiid, stolid indifference characteristic of the Celtic race, said nothing; and as Mac could sot then bo brought tv ca* scratch by Sawney, his wily companion, he, with that tact at driving a bargain to which his success in business and present position is no doubt mainly to be atmbated, quietly counted out before Mac the promised Mac, after looking at the glittering and tempting prize for a time, without saying a word, at last lifted them, and, as he put them in his pocket said ; —" I'll just take them ; they'll no dee o' the tout " Jlollo ways's Pills.—lmpurities oftlie Blood. —To ensure health, it is absolutely necessary that tlie fluids and solids of the human body should be kept free from those' impurities which a?e continually gaining admission to the system by erroneous living, unwholesomeatmosphere, or disordered stomach. The. onlysafe and certain method of expelling all iimpurities is to take Hollo way's Pills,, .whk-h. have the power of eleansing the blood Ji-oisv" all noxious matters, at the same time--'remov-ing »uy irregularities, -svhich their pruseriecr may have already produced. HollowayV Pills expel all humors which taint or impoverish the blood, and thereby ivnclinvigorate and give general tone to iba system . Young or old, robust or delie&ie may aiikfi-

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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 263, 21 March 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

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Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 263, 21 March 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 263, 21 March 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

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