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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1371, 20 October 1883, Page 2

Special attention is directed to an extract from the “Otago Dully Times ” re the Barker-McDouaid contriuution to the Hospital, which appears uu our first page. The same page also contains several other interesting articles.

Willis and Pickersgill's well-known Panorama will »pen in Mes-ira Pa-neil ABoyians Hull, on Monday, the Z7Lh instant, and continue for the ensuing week. It pre-vni t-iey are drawing large houses at Abbott's Tneatre, Auckland.

A locally constructed trycicle and bicycle has been manufactured in the , engineering shop of Messrs Brown and binatll. l.iuugn nut so big -iy fimsned, or as light as the imoorted ar icle, yet they show a very fair amount of skid and strength of construe tion.

On the 26th of July the Lord Mayor of London entertained upwards of 200 May Old of England, and Provosts of Scotland, at a banquet at the Maa'uu House. Among tne guests were Mr Kr ell Lowell, American du <;er: the Servian Mini ter, the Lur<l Provost of Edinburgh, and the Lord Mayors u! Dubini and York. Exhibitors for the Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition, which is to be opeued on Monday afternoon hex , at the new Library buildings, are reminded by advertisement that all exhibits notified to the Secretary will be called for to-day. We are glad to stale that the public have most liberally j . ~-i jilted to the above, and we may safely :.i ) ,te a successful show.

IrJesaor H Cohen, of Breslau, believes that the u»e ol slates by scnool child ■ a tt.mls topruduce short-sightedness; and substitutes of either pen ami ink or an a. >ificial wiuie slate with Diack pencil, manufactured in Pilsen, are already introduced ii -o a fe’. ■ German schools. The school Board of Zurica has orbiddt n the use of the slate after the first te .a (primary year), and m .y teachers and oculists advocate the si bstitution of white boards for black hoards.

Prrnell and Boylan have just landed from Horas.>y & Son, a first prize Paragon mower, with the newest and latest improvements, it is also fi ved with the increase speed motion, thus giving it an advantageover other machines in cutting thick meadows, easy on the horses and light in draught, no fear of the above mr.ch ces being chocked. P. &. B have to arrive direct, ” Hornsby combined first prize paragon reapeis and mowers of latest design, and fitted with the patent increase speeds Also separately the increase speed motion which can be fitted co a combined Hornsby 0/ di nary machine. —[ A DVT. ] Liver coughs, often taken for consumption, are cured almost immediately with Hop BiUers. Pvead