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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 318, 4 May 1878, Page 2

“The Widow’s Mite.”—This is how Figaro alludes to the £SOO a certain august lady forwarded for the relief of the Indian famine.

Curious old boots, of very rough and clumsy make, have been, occasionally turned up of late during the ' progress of London excavations. The peculiar quality of the soil in certain localities has preserved them from decay. They are of the stylo of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and are probably four or five hundred years old.

Barry Sullivan, who, a short time since, was playing Othello, met with a reply as unanswerable as it was unexpected. His frequent allusions to the handkerchief, £i Whoro is the handkerchief?” .suggested to one of the Hibernian “ gods” to answer “ Never mind yer handkerchief, son - ; blow your nose anyhow, and g'et on wid the

Holloioai/s Pills. —Disorders of the kidneys, known by the deeply-s*eated pain in the back and scanty secretion of water, can be arrested in their distressing and rapid course by these regulating Pills. Their highly tonic and strengthening properties prevent the impoverishment of the blood and the derangement of circulation, characteristic of kidney disease, and often ending in partial or general dropsy. Experience has proved the almost unvaried success obtained when Holloway’s Filin are taken in the earlier stages, and the ease they afford when the complaint is more advanced. They relax the hot and & parched skin, overcome the attendant costiveness, induce a copious secretion by the kidneys, and are the harbingers of disease departing, and health returning. Strangers and country settlers coming • to Carlyle, are very often at a loss'to know which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the ' district. 11. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. He keeps the largest and best assorted stock of, every description of drapery goods, imported direct—and from the best colonial houses which, being bought _on the most advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterling quality at prices that cannot be improved on by'any other house in New Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address —it. A. Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle—advt/