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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 215, 21 October 1874, Page 2

Holloway's Pills.— Changes of leui|>eraturo anti weather frequently upset persons who are most careful of their health, and pirticular in their diet. These corrective 1 purifying, and gentle aperient Pills are the best remedy for all defective action of the digestive organs: they augment the appetite, strengthen the stomach, correct biliousness, and carry off all that is noxious from the system. Holloway’s Pills are composed of rare balsams, unmixed with baser matter, and on that account are peculiarly well adapted for the young, delicate, and aged. As this peerless medicine has gained fame in the past, so will it preserve it in the future by its renovating and invigorating qualities, and tho impossibility of its doing harm.

Cricket Extraordinary. —As a specimen of tall scoring, it is worthy of mention that in a match played on Woolwich Common, on July 23, between the Royal Artillery and the Oxford Harlequins, two days were occupied in the capture of 15 wickets only, w'hose contributions amounted in the aggregate to the astounding number of 859 runs, which gives the extraordinary average of 57.4 per wicket. The above feat in scoring has seldom been equalled. “ Talking about Good Templars,” writes “ Bohemian,” in the jB. P. Times, “ I have lately heard an interpretation of the mystic letters of the brotherhood, which, if your sympathies with the ’ sober band ’ will permit, you have my permission to publish. 1.0.G.T., said a profane outsider to this deponent the other day, are only the initials of the words, ‘I often get tight.’ Of course, the assertion is quite unwarrantable as matter of fact, but it is not so bad, Mr. Editor, as a Jca de mots."

A Summer and Winter Garden fob London. —A company bearing the title of the Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden Society has just been registered with a capital of £2<M),O(X) in 40,001) shares of £5 each, to provide in the heart of London an aquarium aud summer and winter garden, and in connection therewith to afford facilities generally for the promotion and encouragement of artistic, scientific, aud musical tastes. A freehold site, it is stated, has been procured, facing the houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. It is proposed that the centre or main transept of the building shall be constructed principally of glass, forming a conservatory and promenade surrounded by galleries, in which concerts will be held every afternoon and evening, and special concerts every Saturday. The aquarium will be a special feature, in the arrangement and management of which the experience already gained in existing aquaria will be utilised. The Poverty Bay Correspondent to tl e Otago Witness finishes a recent lett< r thus :—We are indebted here for a lar; e portion of Euro|x-an and general Colonial politics and information to the Waiapu correspondent of the Standard. The other day he contributed nearly a column on the subject of Sir George Arney’s successor as Chief Justice, strongly upholding Judge Johnstone’s claim to the appointment as against that of the Attorney General, Mr. Prendergast. It is to be hoped that the Government will not fail to respect the opinions of that correspondent. His last contribution informed tho world that “the Land Laws of Otago having been framed wiih an especial view to the encouragement, and benefit of capitalists and runholders, small settlers experience no small difficulty in locating themselves in that Province, and at much inconvenience and sacrifice; and they would therefore gladly avail themselves of an opening elsewhere which would offer greater inducements to them than Otago does.” I hope you will appreciate this as the very “ latest information."