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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 234, 30 December 1874, Page 2

Holloway s Pills.— Liver Complaints and disorders of the Bowels : It is impossible to exaggerate the extraordinary virtue of thia medicine in the treatment of all affections of the liver or irregularities of the bowels. In cases of depraved or superabundant bile these Pills, taken freely, have never been known to Cail. In bowel complaints they are equally efficacious, but they should then be taken rather more sparingly, for every medicine in. the form of an aperient requires caution whetn the bowels are disordered, although at the same time a gentler or more genial aperient than these Pills, in moderate doses, has never yet been discovered. If taken according to the printed instructions, they not only cure the complaint but improve the whole system. At the monthly meeting of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Mr. W. P. Gordon read a paper on “The principles that should guide breeders and. graziers of sheep for long wool and mutton.” He concludes his paperas follows: —“ 1. Do not cross any Leicester or Lincoln owes with another breed; especially avoid a Downs cross if you want good wool. 2. In commencing a flock with merino ewes select large, sound, four-year-old. sheep, and keep them healthy with salt. 3. Having obtained a good cross, do not go to another breed to cross again. 4. Do not use a cross bred ram because he is to be had cheapfrom a neighbour, if you want to save time and money. 5. Do not sell best ew e lambs because they are the first fat for the butcher, if you want to continue a good paying flock. 6. Shelter from drenching winter rains, and long-wool led sheep will repay you for all the comfort they enjoy as well or better than any stock you can keep.

The Wairarapa News of the 12th inst. says:—", We have been shown samples of wool from three fleeces, which weighed, without scraps or belly pieces, 141 b., 161 b.. and 171 b. respectively. The fleeces were taken from three young pure-bred Lincoln sheep, the off-spring of one ewe ata single birth. They are the property of J. G. Rockel, Esq., of Matihiwi, who would have exhibited them at the late pastoral show but for a pressure of business. We may add that the staple in one of the samples is 17| inches in length. The totil weight of the fleeces is 471b5., of course, it will be understood, in the grease.’’ The following may be looked upon as a very important decision, as touching acceptances discounted by Banking Companies and Corporations. It was delivered lately in Melbourne-by Judge Pohlman, whom, we believe, in matters relating to the rules, laws, and regulations applicable to commerce is allowed to hold a very high eminence. The question which came before him was as to

the right of a bank to debit the account of an insolvent, with the amount of a dishonored acceptance. The trustee of an k insolvent firm — Messrs. Morris and M'Murray —made an application to the Court for an order directing the Union Bank to pay him £175 Is Bd, which was the amount in the bank to the credit of the insolvents when they failed. The application had been resisted by the bank on the ground that the had only £23 in their hands to the credit of the insolvents. Certain facts were admitted by both sides at the hearing, from which it appeared that before Morris and M‘Murray failed they accepted a bill of Burry, Leech and Co., for £152 Is Bd. The bank discounted the bill, placing it to the account of Bury, Leech and Co., and when the insolvents failed they (the bank) claimed that they were entitled to deduct the amount of the bill from the sum to the credit of the insolvents. His Honor decided that they were so entitled, and gave judgment in favor of the bank.