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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 190, 11 August 1879, Page 4

It is said that the Government have rendered the colony liable to no less a, sum than £800,000 on account of orders given through Mr Larnach for railway material &c., which will not be required for at least 18 months:— Post. In the House of Commons, in answer to Sir W. Lawson, Colonel Stanley stated that according to the latest figures received from South Africa the number of troops, British and colonial, killed in the campaign was 1186, and the number of deaths by disease S6. The speed with which electricity travels in a wire suspended in the air is about, 22,400 miles per second, while in a submarine wir« it is only 2,500 miles. Jonah in the whale' 3 belly was safer than those who, being swallowed up of sickness and disease, yet neglect to take the only remedies that can save them. It is an indisputable fact that « Ghollah's Great Indian Cores "are the surest restorers to health of any medicines ever yet discovered. Persons who had been ill with Rheumatics and Gout for over 20 years have been cured by these meritorious medicines. Sold by all Chemists — see testimonials.