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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 52, 29 January 1884, Page 3

Dyspepsia, biliousness, nervousness, and miserableness all cured with Hop Bitters. See. Remember that a little Hop Bitters saves big Doctor’s bills, and cures when all else fails. Read. The Queensland Cricket Association has decided to accept the terms offered by Mr. Alexander, namely, £3OO and expenses to and from Sydney for a visit of the Australian Eleven to Brisbane next February, on condition that two matches be played in Queensland. A Southern paper* referring to the trunk railway vr.tile) «a,v»3 : T'hcJ I’rcmk'»‘ Srill be to blame if ha allows himself ami his constituents to be jockeyed by the politiciansand the land-sharks. The engineers ought to be the guides—-not the politicians and the landsharks.” The IFaH'/anuf Chronicle states that Mr, Carkeek passed through that town, and that he descrioea the territory through which the Taranaki people imagine a railway can be taken as ” awful country,” Taking advantage of the favorable tides which have been experienced lately, the engineer and contractors have been pushing forward the necessary operations for completing the patent slip al the Lyttelton Graving Dock. The Oamaru Mail speaks favorably of Mr. Vaile’s railway reform crusade, Sir William Fox is likely to be asked to stand for Rangitikei at the next election. Tne Hon. Mr. Mitchelson is agein in Auckland, and will leave for Wellington on an early day. Mr. S. Vaile writes to the Lyttelton Times on the interview between the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Mitchelson. A Catholic College, to be called St. Patrick’s College, is about to be erected in Tory Street, Wellington, near Buckle Street, The crops about Oakura and Okato, Tara* naki, are looking quite green. The Egment Courier says the “ oldest settler” cannot re* member anything like it at this Irte season of the year,