TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Southland Times, Issue 744, 1 November 1867, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

Weleington, Tuesday. At an assembly last night at the residence of the Bishop, a farewell address from the members of the Church of England was presented to the Governor, who replied in suitable terms. Colonel Haultain has gone to Napier in the Lord Ashley. No additional news of the murder at Switzer's. Another suspected murder of a Chinaman, Ah Hang, at Kawarau Gorge: his mate, Ti Ah Chang, absconded — suspected.

LuiMPtrTiAir Enemxes. — Under this title 0. E. Sprague describes, in the American Journal of horticulture, the various species of fungi known aB rust, smut, bunt, and mildew, which are of the simplest structure. Though the individual plants are infinitesimally small, they reproduce with •uch wonderful rapidity, and in such amazing profusion, as to destroy whole crops by their ravages. Their tnycellium penetrates the sof 1 " tissues of their prey, and on reaching tbe surface breaks forth into an eruption which allows no cure. A piece of glass, on which Ire spread thousands of their spores, would exhibit to the eye a faint mist, and yet this mist will increase into a black cloud, which envelopes and destr iys a field of nodding gran. Experiments of all sorts have been restarted to to prevent the attack of these omnipresent parasites. But their occurrence is mainly due to atmospheric influences. Their spores are everywhere, and can be called into germination by circumstances favorable to their growth, either moisture or drought. All fungi are more or less meteoric in occurrence. Season upon season may pass without a single notice of them, and then, owing to favorable influences, often beyond our recognition, they spring broadcast into life and luxuriance. Dr Derkeley says the surest remedy is to steep the seed grain in some solution, which at once washes off a portion of the spores, and poisons the rest ; many remedies have been proposed, as simple ■water, salt, lime, sulphate of copper, corrosive sublimate, arsenic. The best, perhaps, is sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) in solution, dried off •with quicklime. Holloway's Pills. — Nothing preserves the health so well as an occasional alterative in changes of weather, or when the nerves are unstrung. These Pills act admirably on the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and so thoroughly purify the blood that they are most efficient in •warding off derangements of the stomach, fever, diarrhcea, dysentery, and other maladies, and giving tone and energy to debilitated constitutions. All, who have the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family's health, cannot do better than trust to Holloway's Piils, which cjol, regulate, and strengthen. These purifying Pills are suitable for all ages, seasons, climates, and constitutions, when all other means frU, They are the fwudtf* Iwrt fed. 2