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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 205, 30 August 1877, Page 2

Ihat spartan virtue, fortitude, is afforded an admirable opportunity for its display, when the jofcnts aud muscles are. racked by the tortures of rheumatism. Few, however) can endure its pangs without wincing. The disease is caused by acid impurities in the blood, which inflame the tissue which forms the covering of the muscles and .ligaments of the joints. Udolpho Wolfb's Schibdam Aromatic Schnapps cures this disease by cleaning the blood through the kidneys.— Advt.

Mr Rowe (says the Post) waa safely delivered of a tale in the Honse last- night, and for the nonce Mr Reader Wood . may hide his diminished head. The tale was of a dog and a gentleman. The latter was very fond of his canine friend, but strongly objected to its tail, which, he thought, flourished and waxed large out of all proportion to its body. So he detailed off " Chawles," his valet, to cur-tail that dog. The howls of the poor beast much disturbed the serenity of its owner, and he congratulated himself when the howling ceased, thinking that the surgical operation was complete. But next morning there was a repetition of the howling; and yet a third time was the tender-hearted gentleman's appetite destroyed. So he called " Chawles " aud asked him "if he could net dress the stump more carefully." "Chawles" explained tbat he had not yet arrived at the stump, for, thinking that to have it 3 tail cut off all at once would give the dog too much pain, he had decided to reduce it at the rate of a joint per day. That dog was the colony "'New Zealand; its tail was the land-fund; o*. _ " - ar nnient were acting the part of and the (j0... *'*"'* tail has put Mr "Chawles." That tv. 0 ""* nf ioint. Reader Wood's uose completely ou. . The following is one of the paragraphs in one of the alleged libellous . letters against Mr Russell, in the Waka Maori libel case, the hearing of which was commenced at Wellington on Tuesday:— "l, Mangai Uhuuhu Kingi, and others (names attached), have discovered that the whole procedure of the mkeha, Henry Russell, is reprehensible; that ! his wrong doings are evil in the extreme. ' With respect to his acts of cajolery and deception practised towards us in times long past, together with those spoken of above, and his promise that he would act the part of a father towards the Maoris, and that he would take care of our lands as a possession tor our children after us, lest they should be absorbed by the many pakehas of Napier, I have to say that in no case whatever did the pakehas of Napier act towards us as he has done; they never came endeavoring to wheedle away our lands under the assumed cloak of friendship, and then afterwards trying to get their lands from them. A sum of £5 for four years' rent! Verily the Maoris hare come to grief through the acts of