Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 375, 20 November 1878, Page 3

. AWFUL PICTURE The Wellington Chronicle in celling special attention ton letter from its “ Own San FnnckCo Correspondent ” says:— “ The writer was for many years one cf the most able and experienced journalists New Zealand ever possessed, and knows this 'Colony thbroivrhly. His warning allowing the ini rod notion to New Zealand of Chinese cheap labor ought to be taken to heart. The letter graphically describes the terrible state of affairs Which preyails in some parts, of the United States ‘ Tens of thousands dying of yellow fever; Chinese leprosy; the struggle of labor against capital; over speculation ; failures and suicides’—the picture is an awful one.’ ” The following is an extract:—“ The Chinese plague of leprosy has been disgustingly exhibited of late through the streets of our city. Dr O’Donnell; quack and demagogue, found one of these hideous creatures playing with a White child on the public streets. He captured him, and put him'in an express Wagon and paraded the streets, harangguin.g from the same Wagon ever-increas-crowds. At length he was arrested and held to answer on a charge of exhibiting a disgusting object. What to do with the captive leper was now the ouestion. The. city police would not touch him with a regulation club, and the Board of Health refused--to handle him. At length- he was technically placed in the custody of the' Mayor, and the ultimate ‘ destination of the creature was solved by an order to the expressman to ‘ dump the leper where he found him.’ And damply lie was accordingly, without Reference to sanitary or municipal law. This question of Chinese leprosy is becoming a serious one. Lepers are to be found in all stages of decomposition in this city, from the muck-heap in the pent-up cellar where the Mongolians throw them to die, to the box or shoe factory, laundries, cigar factory or store. Where the representative of the corning race are employed. A leper in a very forward stage of developernent may be Seen making cigars any day in one of the numerous cigar factories in the city, and' despite the radical assertion that .leprosy is non-infeetious, it is becoming Widely disseminated among the white population. It only needs a low dietary scale, impure air and filthy surroundings to develop it rapidly. In the mining and interior towns, Chinese lepers are always to be found. Indeed, wherever the Chinese go, they carry this disease with them as an indelible brand upon their debased habits and low physical condition. The Constitutional Convention met in Sacramento on the 28rh, and they had this question to face. Large land monopolists and railroad rings want Chinese labour because it is servile, and care nothing for general industrial depression so long as they make money. Nor do the Chinese care much for our municipal ordinances, seeing that al! the houses in their quarter ordered to be vacated by the Board of Health a short time ago, are crammed full of human beings, and stink as pestiferously, as if nothing had occurred to interfere with their domestic economy.” . Well-dressed Men— Among those habitual errors of conduct which are common in both careful and careless persons, not one is more often met with than disregard of the advantage; derivable from being well dressed; yet whoever lives observantly in such a County as Patea. is soon convinced that this mistake is fruitful of mischievous results. All Of us instinct ively judge from first impressions; We proceed from the exterior to the interior; a well-dressed man gratifies our fondness for beauty and our appreciation of neatness; and there is no one, however cynical or unobservant, but is pleased when a well-dressed person, even if a stranger, passes by, and disposed to think favorably of him. This universal disposition cannot safely be offended. To be habitually a sloven is to constantly, though unconsciously, offend numerous persons, among whom the favour of some may be valuable; and therefore a shrewd man is not content to make himself neat now and then, but always will appear well dressed. He keeps his clothes in good order, and is careful in the selection of a tailor. In bringing this maxim before public notice, E. A. Adams. Cardigan House, is gratified by remembering that the disposition of a great maqymMrts customers to appear in public well dressed has been met by the combination in his goods of selection, material good fit. and low-price. He obtains his cloths in the most advantageous markets; he employs first-class cutters and workmen; he avoids obsolete fashions; and he is content with moderate profits in I he, place of the exorbitant percentage which only a few years ago was imjiprsai. and still is frequent in the tailoring t™Pe, His gloves, hats, shirts, hosiery, ties, amf scarfs, are also such as will please tbe most fastidious. Whatever experience, capital, care, and good taste can effect on the tradesman’s side, is done by E. A. Adams, in order that, all his customers may realise the substantial advantages of being well-dressed; and that.his efforts give'satisfaction; is shown by- the rapid and steady increase in the number of who deal with him.' Attentive .torihe changes of costume necessitated by varying seasons, and of style by the dictates of fashion, E. A. Adams has now on hand a large and carefully selected stock of Cloths suitable forall seasons.—R. A. ADAMS Cardigan House, Carlyle.— ADVT. Holloway's Fills.— Sick Headaches.— Thousands suffer • from this worrying annoyance when the body and brain are depreascclin warm, damp, weather. Hollo•Way’s purifying Pills present a ready means of cure for indigestion, billiousuess, and tlattttem.-y,* in debilitated constitutions ahd nervous habits these Pills are the best restoratives; they correct all the unpleasant consequences of torpidity of the liver, they remove distention, and never fail to secure regular action. For all abdominal ailments Holloway’s Pills are the safest possible medicine, they at once give ease and comfort, and naturally j strengthen the whole series of organs con- j Cerned in the process of digestion, and will be found useful in every household. TENDERS will be ■ received until Wednesday, 27tlr instant, for about 50 Chains of Fencing. Specifications can be seed at Mr W. Dale’s office where Tenders can be left.B. M. HONEYFIELD. Patea, Nov,. 19, 1878. 1079n23 i PUBLIC. MEETING will beheld XIL at Prosser’s-Ho tel To-night, at 8 o'clock, to receive Balance Sheet and Arrange Programme for the forthcoming Sports at Hawera. I J. STRACHAN GREIG, 1077 -Secretary, j