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Patea Mail, 9 April 1881, Page 4

In the Bankruptcy Court at Wellington Mr E. W. Mills, was granted an order of discharge. The public prisons of Greymoutlx and Laurence are gazetted as closed fiom the 31st March. At sales of properties which have taken place in Wellington lately good prices have been obtained for nearly all classes of country property. The reward offered by the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society, namely, one shillingper pair of hawk’s feet, has caused the destruction of no less than 2,600 birds. There are no hawks now on the plains in Hawke’s Bay. Rabbits are however plentiful and mischievous. The Australasian Banking Record says —We suggest for the consideration of bank and assurance managers that they might, with advantage in all cases, ignore the term ‘ Esquire ’ in writing their reports. The simple prefix ‘ Mr ’ is much more appi’opriate in a business document. There are in the Napier Working Men’s Club 125 working members, 12 honorary members, and 8 life members. The halfyearly balance-sheet showed a credit of £379 18s, which together with the bagatelle room and skittle-alley gave £4BO 19s, to the credit of the club, being an increase of £43 over the last half-year. The committee were empowex-ed to procure a billiard table. Cure for Dysentery. —The egg is con-sidex-ed one of the best remedies foxdysentery. Beaten slightly with or without sugar, and swallowed, it tends by its emollient qualities to lessen the inflammation of the stomach and intestines, and by forming a transient coating on these ox-gans to enable nature to resume her healthful sway over the diseased body. Two or at most three eggs per day would be all that is required in ordinary cases ; and since the egg is not merely medicine, but food as well, the lighter the diet otherwise, and the quieter the patient is kept, the more certain and rapid is the recovery. It is not advisable to go out of doors without anything on your head, or into society withont anything in it.

Mr W. K. Hulke, in axx article in the Taranaki Herald, furnishes useful information about cheese and butter, and concludes by advocating the establishment of cheese and butter factories, and says Waitara, Bell Block, Inglewood, and Omata have sufficient cows in their respective districts to coxxxmence with. Let each form a small company amongst themselves, and a great and rapid improveixicnt will take place in our dairy produce. Two men fired simultaneously at each other in a Salt Lake bar-room, and the bullets came into collision. There could be no doxxbt of this, for one bullet dropped to the floor midway between the antagonists, who were ten feet apart, and the other was turned upward to the ceiling, while both were flattened.

Jones had to put down his horses when he married, bat he has a pair of nags now —his wife and his rnother-in-law