We know that there is nothing on earth equal to Hop Bitters as a family medicine. Look for.
It is notified that owing to the inclemency of the weather, the soiree and concert which was to have been held last night, has been postponed until Friday next, 27th inat, when it is to be hoped the weather will have moderated and the gathering prove successful.
The poll for the proposal to levy a special rata of one fourteenth of a penny in the £ on all property in the Te Aral Road District to repay a loan of £385 for the purpose of erecting the bridge over the Karawa Creek, resulted as for the proposal 23 ; against nil. The proposal is therefore duly carried.
Yon know those little spindles made of an upright wire, about eight inches long, sharp at one end. and set in a base of iron. People have them on desks to put papers and letters under, and the other day a gentleman who left a silk hat on a chair in an office chanced to see one of those spindles and put it under the hat, and the fellow who thought it would be a good joke to stroll in, and apparently, by accident, sit down upon that hat and smash it, came to the conclusion that he had exercised fearful bad judgment.
Sour stomach, sick headache, and dizziness. Hop Bitters cures with a few doses. See.
Mr. A. G. Croll has just handed us the “ Growers Guide,” a useful monthly garden, Farm and Fireside journal.
Mails for Auckland, per Southern Cross’ will close this afternoon (Thursday) at 1 p.m.
Take Hop Bitter? three times a day, and you will have no doctor’s bills to pay. See. A subscription list to aid Mrs. Bromley in returning to the only ones she has left to solace her in her distress (her children), is now in the hands of its kind-hearted and generous promoter, Mr. E. P. Joyce, of the British Empire Hotel. Any one wishing to assist in this deserving case cun do so by giving subscriptions to the above or to this office, Peel Ltreet.
Mr* Croll has just received a large assortment of Sutton’s seeds of the choicest and finest description. It is quite needless to say much about Sutton’s seeds as they always carry their own recommendation, and it has always been found far better to pay a fair price for a certainty than to buy inferior and doubtful sorts,
Mr Alister Brown) the capable agent of the Mutual Life Assurance Association of Australia explains the remarkable and ’‘extraordinary proceedings on his part,” Mr A. L. D. Fraser, who arrived here in the interests of the Government, Life In. surance .Department, applied to Mr Brown personally for employment, but Mr Brown declined his services at that time. Subsequently Mr Fraser made another application in writing, which Mr Brown accepted. The result was that Mr Fraser, the Government Life Insurance Agent became Mr Fraser the Mutual Life Insurance Agent. This is what some “ lamentably ” funny people call “ An Insurance Agent’s Dodge.” The Ada Mantua consultation on the Melbourne Cup and New Zealand Cup, 1883, will close on November 2, and will consist of 50,000 members at 10s each. There are 370 prizes, and each ticket has seven chances and can win £3,106. Address : Ada Mantua, care of Mr Abraham, box 351, Post-office, Dunedin.
Judging from the New Zealand ” War Cry ” the Salvation Army are doing great things in the way of “ conversions. Under the heading Dunedin we find the following ; —“ More Salvation Holiness and Hard Work ! Troubling the Devil at seven in the morning. On Tuesday we had a glorious time. Our soldiers were all alive : at the word of command they fired some hot shots into the Devil’s Kingdom. Wednesday— Another desperate attack on the Devil’s Half-acre. * * * Soldiers all alive ; Devil raging War not ended yet. Hallelujah !” We (Telegraph) hardly think that Napier is big enough for this sort of thing.
The Herald last night, in the simplicity of its soul, and its efforts to defend Mr DeLautour’s falsehoods, publishes that extinguished gentleman’s speech from Hansard, to show that he did not use the words that the sixth clause of the Land Company’s Bill had crept in by mistake. The Herald is always immense on side issues. It did not dare to express an opinion on the Bill, because it was afraid, and now it quite forgets that Mr DeLautour had ample opportunity to excise from his speech the palpable falsehood he uttered in the House. On Tuesday evening last the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company’s Bill ignominiously ” Crept out ” of the House of Representatives. The monstrosity had been smothered in its birth by the voice of public opinion. Truly the ©nd justified the moans which were employed to foster and rear this precious abortion. The Ministry have by their action in this matter earned the thanks of the country, and of all right minded men,
Nellie Palmer, a strong-minded female, has been lecturing in the States on “ Hell audits Tortures.” She addresses her lectures to uemarried men. No doubt she thinks married men know all about it already.
The whipping post tor wife beaters is to be set up in Xllinios, America, The law not only provides that any husband who assaults his wife shall be whipped upon the bare back, but that he shall pay all costs of prosecution. We look forward to the day when whipping posts for wife beaters shall adorn the land as the indices of an advanced civilization.
The J Battery will parade this evening at 7 o’clock, Inspection at 7«30 sharp, Mr .Bromley, among the other fallacies indulged in his to his family, rather errs with respect to the amount of trouble required to make a person proficient in shorthand, In th® Auckland “ Weekly News ” of the 14th instant, that excellent authority writing on the subject says u With the study of phongraphy it is the quiet, steady, and unceasing perseverance, combined with a keen sense of hearing and nimble fingers, which carry the student to that point at which he can enjoy a practical advantage from the study and labor he has bestowed. Our acquaintance with those who have begun the study of phonography in Britain and Auckland, has led us to the conclusion that notoad in every thousand w'rw begin the study in high hopes, carry it beyond the preliminary stages.” Rather encouraging for tyros. Charles Dickens, in one of his novels, says it is more difficult to learn than six modern languages. A gentleman in South Australia, who has launched out into ostrich farming considerably of late, recently invited a number of hie friends to inspect the noble birds. On going into the paddock, the host, noticing that one of his friends wore his watch-chain outside of his coat, advised him to put it out of eight, us the ostriches had a great weakness for swallowing anything which glitters. The owner of the chain laughed at the idea of the thing, and left his chain where it was. During the inspection they were standing very close to one of the birds, when without a moment’s warning, the bird caught the guard in its beak, and before anything could be done to save it, it had gobbled up both watch and chain. Another bird made a grab at another watch, but before it had time to swallow it one of the party struck it, when it dropped the spoil. Mr. Dick’s puritanical turn of mind (writes the correspondent of a contemporary) leads him into curious holes and corners of righteous legislation sometimes, but I doubt if he has very often gone further than in one clause of his Auctioneers Act, which is intended to consolidate all existing Acts relating to auctioneer's. Amongst other numerous crimes and misdemeanours, any auctioneer who shall permit any music to be played in any premises used as a saleroom within half an hour of the time of holding an auction, except for the trial of an instrument to be offered for sale, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £lO. The same fine will be inflicted on one who shall hold a sale in an unsuitable building. For pretending to act as an auctioneer, the penalty varies from £2O to £lOO, and that for forging a license, two or three years’ penal servitude, with or without hard labour. Neither publicans nor uncertificated bankrupts are permitted to be auctioneers, and the hours of business are limited to daylight.
The Ashburton “ Guardian ” records a prolific yield on the farm Mr. Robert M’lntyrc, of the Ashburton Forks. Thirteen acres of land threshed out with a result of 1G22 bushels of Tartarian oats, or 124 bushels to the acre. The ground was allowed to lay fallow for four years, and was then carefully drilled, instead of the seed being sown broad-cast.
The ignorance and falsehood tliat permeate every issue of our local contemporary, under the character of news, is becoming so thoroughly recognised by the public as to scarcely call for further notice at our hands. Not satitfied with telegraphing false reports to papers out of the district, the “ Herald ” endeavours in its last issue to cast further slurs upon some 300 of the inhabitants of the Bay by misrepresenting the facts with respect to the petition forwarded against the Land Company’s Bill. It says from what transpired in the House the petition was regarded as a ’• questionable document.” What crass ignorance. Does anyone imagine if the petition was not couched in the respectful language required by the forms of the House that a member of the Government, the Hon. Mr Bryce, would have presented it at all. Certainly not. As a matter of fact, the petition, of which the people who signed may well feel proud, was deemed of se important a character as to be actually read in the House—a proceeding resorted to only in exceptional cases of great moment. What actually did take place was that the Speaker ruled that no petitions read by the clerk should appear in Hansard—a wise ruling too,
A very touching illustration of the fidelity of the dog to bis master was furnished the other day in a village upon the banks of the Seine, and not far from Paris. Some labourers working in a field saw a well-dressed man walking along the bank followed by a black spaniel, which was evidently delighted to have such a run. Suddenly the man disappeared, and when the labourers, thinking that lie had fallen into the river, came up, the dog, which had realised the situation, was barking dolefully at the point where his master had disappeared. The body did not rise to the surface, and was found two days Liter much lower down the stream, the dog in the meanwhile having refused to leave the spot where he had last seen his master, and being eventually taken away by one of the villagers, who lias resolved to keep him. His master, it may be added, had committed suicide, for a paper was found upon him stating that ho had lost his wife three months before, and that being weary of life without her he had resolved to put himself out of the world.
According to a London paper babies are at present decidedly a drug in the market. A short while ago one was advertised for sale for £1 Is. Again, it came out in evidence, on a School Board summons, that a child has been bought for a shilling ; and recently the mother of a two-months-old infant put her baby into a bag of rags which she was about to sell to a rag dealer, with the view, apparently, of at once getting rid of the child, and of making the bag heavier,
The following weather telegram has been received i~~Wellington, July 24—Bad weather approaching between S.E. and E. and N., glass falling. July 25, 11.12 a.m.—Heaviest gale this last eight years. Very high Hood and unusually heavy rain.
The Te Aroha “ News ” has the following “On Saturday last Te Kooti duly paid his promised visit to this township in response to the invitation of Mr Coleman, hotelkeeper. He came in a double-seated buggy, with three of his compatriots, a young} Native acting as charioteer. He was accompanied by a large cavalade of Natives of both sexes, mounted and on foot, but there was little curiosity and no excitement whatever. A few white people went to Coleman’s to see him, and some, but not many, drank with the visitor and at his expense. He appeared to have plenty of money, and certainly did not present the appearance of the bloodthirsty savage of the past. During what may almost be deemed, his present triumphal march, he has proved himself nearly as good a patron of publicans aa his sovereign Tawhiao, for he baits at all public-houses cn route, and treats his bodyguards most liberally- This shows that he HiUat bo wall supplied with funds, for some of them are exceedingly thirsty souls and he pays cash for their refreshment. A Toronto lady in a hurry to go to church took from her dark closet what she thought to ba her dolman. She hung the garment over her arm, and did not discover until she had thrown it over the back of the pew in front of her in church that she had brought by mistake a pair of her husband’s trouser’s She and her lady companion laughed so loud that they attracted the attention ’of the entire congregation, and no one except themselves understood the cause of the fresh outburst of cachinatory enthusiasm when the choir led off with “ As Rants the Hart,” &c,
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1334, 26 July 1883, Page 2
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