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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 132, 4 June 1879, Page 4

At a recent meeting of the Orey County Council the Chairman made the pleasant observation that they had no money, and if creditors pressed the Council the only thing to he done would he to lock the Council Chambers' door for five or six months. The Lytteltou Times ot the 17 th says :— " In a case heard yesterday at the Resideut Magistrate's Court, the evidence disclosed that a money-lender charged £2 10s. interest on a three months' bill of £20, in other words, at the rate of 50 per cent, per annum. Not many persons could often afford to indulge in such expensive luxuries as kite flying at such a rate." A Sydney correspondent of the Canterbury Press writes :— ln connection with the progress of the Exhibition building, I may mention that the sum expended in wages last week was £3200. The week preceding it was £3750. The number of hands is being gradually reduced, as the heaviest part of the work is already accomplished. There are now 1400 hands employed. One of the most extraordinary disclosures in the trial of the Glasgow Bank directors was the fact that in one instance £80,000 had been advanced to a bosom friend of theirs on the value of four elephants. The Paris correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald states that Marshal M'Mahon, j having a large fortune in right of his wife, daughter of the Duke de Castres.paid nearly all the cost of his official life out ot his own pocket, the Duchess giving away among the poor, to whom she has been a most beneficent friend. M. Grevy, though possessed of a handsome fortune, does not appear to be inclined to emulate the generosity of his predecessor; he had just had a bill for granting him an additional £16,000 of income for the expenses of the Elysee laid before the Committee on the Budget. Save yourselves. The time has come when it beboves all sensible people who may be suffering the tortures of Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Liver Complaints, Biliousness, &c, not to allow themselves to he trifled with, and the cure of tbeir maladies delayed. All these complaints can he speedily and effectually removed by the use of those never-failing remedies, "Ghollah's Great Indian Cukes.' They can be had of all Chemists, and obtain from them the testimonials given by well-known Colonists who have been cured ' of longstanding disease.