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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 31, 5 February 1878, Page 4

The Dutch are putting an increased tax on English gin. which is alleged not only to intefere with the revenue, but aiso to injure the health of the descendents of Mynheer Van Dunk. The Greymouth Jockey Club have had the spirit to issue a good programme for their annual Autumn Meeting, which will be held on Monday and Tuesday. March 18th and 19th. For the first day there are fire events, and the same number for the second. The public money given will he £350. We {N. Z. Times') hear on what appears to be good authority that some of the electors of Wellington have requested Sir George Grey to allow himself to be put in nomination for the vacant seat for Wellington, and that he has replied to the effect that if, on his return from the North, he is assured by competent judges in the matter that he has a fair chance of success, he will place his services at the disposal of the constituency. Mr Hutchison it is said wiil stand for the Wairarapa, and will be backed by the Grey interest in that district. Au American paper reports a shocking occurrence at Glade Springs, iv Virginia, where large crowds had gathered from all parts of the surrounding country to witness a balloon ascent. According to announcement the travelling show of Professor H. Hoffman made its appearance and prepared for exhibition. Tbeir large iron furnace was put to work, and the balloon hoisted over it by means of two poles an either side, forty feet high. The balloon was inflated by means of wood aud kerosene oil, with a small quantity of gasolene added. When it was tilled as usual, Mr Hainur, the aeronaut, was informed but he said, " I waut more gas this time." Two pints more oil was put in, aud when exhausted the damper to the furnace was shut down. Hainur them jumped into his place, and like an arrow the great air ship shot upward, carrying its human freight dangling at its end. It had ascended some 309 feet, and while the actor was performing on an horizontal bar, hanging by his feet with his head down, waving a handkerchief to the nervous audience below, the patched arid dilapidated canvas split from bottom to top with a report that was heard miles away. No soouer had the gas escaped than the balloon coljansed, and came shooting down as swiftly as it shot up. The aeronaut saw his situation, and quick as lightning turned himself up and regained his hand hold, and commenced a manoeuvre to dodge a telegraph wire and post towards which he was falling. This he succeeded in doing, striking the ground with terrible force, which bounded him up, to be caught and pressed down by the balloon. All this was the work of a moment The crowd was literally paralysed, women sickening and fainting, and men unable, in their horror, to move. The companions of the unfortunate man stood rivetted to the ground, and uot until some citizens undertook to move the canvas did they stir. The man was fouud to be alive and conscious, but dreadfully bruised aud mangled. He was perfectly calm and cool, and described his feelings as, descending, he saw and felt death staving him in the face. He was taken to the hotel, where the same evening he paid the penalty of death for his recklessness Uncontrovcrtable, incontestible, iudispufeable, ungainsayable' iucomparative, supeilatively supreme, stand the unparelled remedies, "Giiollah's Gukat Indian Cukes." No such extraordinary cures have ever baen effected as by these marvellous Indian Medicines. Ask at the Chemists' for copies ot the numerous testimonials given by respectable old Colonists.— Testimonial.— Dunedin •Alst August, 187 G. Sir, - Having taken your Gluilhih's Rheumatic Mixtures for some considerable time; and having been completely cured by its use of the very severe Rheumatic Gnut from which 1 had suffered most severely for the last ten years. I can bsar testimony to its extraordinary curative powers. I think it right to state, for (ho bene tic of others sutfursng the tortures that 1 endured for the period above stated, that J attribute my restoration to health and freedom from pain, entirely to tho use of your invaluable medicine. 1 can strongly recommend it to those suffering from Rheumatism or Gout. (Sigued) John Giuf*-Ix\, J.P.

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