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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2793, 7 March 1882, Page 3

The “ Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette ” occasionally indulges in rhetorical iiights. Especially is our contemporary’s eloquence awakened by a contemplation of teetotalism vilest of heresies !): —“ The lank eei: cof teetotalism has twined its slimy and insiduous coils around the State’s fair form, until, to conciliate the monster, it was obliged to tempt it away by promises to give /<up i's most legit : raate prey—the apathetic victualler —to its fangs. And what is the result? The Legislature is miserably deformed by the pressure brought to bear upon it, and its comeliness will never be restored until the equilibrium of forces be adjusted by the healing influence of the publicans.”

A correspondent of the 11 Liverpool Mercury ” states that the worst case of small-pox can be cured in three days by cream of tartar dissolved in boiling water and drank when cold at short intervals. It is a preventative as well as. a cure. It has not failed in a hundred thousand cases, leaves no mark, causes no blindness and prevents tedious lingering. An ounce of tartar to a pint of water is the proportion.