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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 5, 6 January 1880, Page 2

A Paris correspondent writes that recently a keeper belonging to Oroszi's Circus, wbo slept near three elephants, was about midnight aroused by their cries; He at first thought a cat or a dog had got into tbe circus, but listening attentively, be heard a suspicious noise in the costumer's store-room. He went, on tiptoe and saw a stranger, with a dark lantern, trying to pick the store-room lock. The keeper unchained the largest elephant, which with characteristifc Bagacit^ wfint straight to the burglar, put his trunk atohnd around the felon's throat, and kept him at proboscis- length until a policeman came. A new idea in advertising has been started by the Associated News and Advertising Bureau,, of Auckland, in the shape of an " advertising papet dinuet napkin," .the first of the kind in the colony. It is printed in two colors, on what is known as silk tissue, and contains a " tissue " of business notices, around which is a very tastefully executed border and design. This novel invention has been registered by the manager of the Bureau; and all rights for New Zealand are reserved. Mr LUndoh riald in the House lately, if he had a son or a dozen of sons, he would sooner see them planting potatoes than in the Government Buildings down below. The Civil Service was a waste of the best energy and abilities of the young men of Sfew Zealand, who entering that service became unfit for any useful employment, got into extravagant habits, ran into debt, committed suicide, or in some other way made fools of selves.The following incident may not be without some interest at the preseht time.. The Auckland Herald relates that the captain of one of the coasting steamers has! always experienced considerable difficulty in getting laborers to unload cargo at one of his ports of call — 28 per hour being frequently paid, and a favor to get labor at that. His mate, however, one day succeeded in catching a genuine specimen of the horny-handed song of toil, who was glad to do lumping at 15d. per hour, and the officer returned to the vessel in high glee with his treasured The lumper promptly abed his coat and waistcoat, tied liis braces round tbe waistband of his pants, aad proceeded to wreßtle with a bag of seed, which he carried ashore in a style which caused the skipper to smile from ear to ear. Returning along the narrow gangway, a second bag was deftly placed hpon the lumper's ample shoulders; but sharply turning his, head, he sniffed suspiciously, in the direction of the sack, and enquired emphatically touching its " blooming " contents. " Why, bonedußt," was the reply of the mate. To drop the sack, adjust bis braCes, and put himself inside his waistcoat and coat, wbs for the lumper bnt the work of a moment. Striding across the gaugway to the beach, he briefly ejaculated, " The line must be drawn somewhere." And at 15d. an hour he drew it at bonedust ! "The bad quality of beer and tobacco is (says tbe New Zealand Times) seldom the cause of complaint and debate in the Upper House of a Legislative Assembly. During the Property Assessment Bill discussion in the Council several speakers urged a tax as high as sixpence per gallon on colonial beer, and one hon member stated as a reason for this course that colonial breweries had hitherto been most carefully protected and exempted from taxation — favors which they requited by brewing most abominable beer. The emphatic " Hear,"hears," which followed the remark betrayed a considerable amount of feeling on the subject. Later on, Captain Fraser, speaking on the Tobacco Bill, opposed it on the ground tbat to pass it would be injurious to health. Tobacco grown in New Zealand would be of such detestably had aroma and its being smoked in large quantities would vitiate the air of the colony and the lungs of its inhabitants. He had authority for speaking so. An hon gentleman .in tbat building was so lost to all sense of the fitness of things and the respect due to other people's. noses as to smoke Swiss cigars — ("Name, name")— and their smell waa execrable. That convinced him that if villainous cigars were made in the colony they would find smokers, and the result he had predicted would inevitably follow. In the interest of the public health he should therefore oppose the Bill most strenuously. (Applause). The following lucky find was recently made at a claim worked at Brown's, near Ballarat, Victoria. The sluiceman was shovelling stones from the race, when another workman saw something glitter on the shovel, and, on a closer inspection, it turned out to be a lump of gold of 32ozs. Ho-Lloway's Ointment and Pill**.— A frequent cause of gout and rheumatism is the inflammatory state ofthe blood, attended with bad digestion and general debility. A few dosea of the Pills taken in time, are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism. Any one who has an attack of either should use Holloway's Ointment also, the powerful action of which, combined with the operation of the Pills, must infallibly effect a cure. Theae Pills act directly on the b'ood wbich they purify and improve. Having once subdued the severity of these diseases, perseverance with the Ointment, after fomenting the affected joints with warm brine, will speedily relax all stiffness, and prevent any permanent contraction.