LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Southland Times, Issue 1179, 10 December 1869, Page 2

LOCAL INDUS TRIES.

Best sample New Zealand Soap, (2 entries), BfTLuod & Son ; do Candles, do ; do Mult (3 entries), Reid & Co, Riverton ; do Dressed Flax, John "ughton (only entry) ;do Fanned Lt»«ttar t C O'Hara ; do Shoeing, light andheivy t Dunlop, Ist prize ; M' Arthur, honorary certificate ;. do Saddlery and U irneas, exhibited on a horae, Thos Fleming, highly coinuendei.

By the advertisement, we observe that the annual dinner to members and friend* was to take place in the evening, and we suppose it did come off somewhere, but as the managers did not follow the usual course, and send our reporter an invitation — whether from want of thought or of courtesy, we don't know — he, of course, did not attend, and our readers are therefore deprived the pleasure of much after-dinner eloquence. Probably they will treat the matter with indifference, in which case, of course, our regret is at an end.

Some young tourists, travelling among the AVhite Mountains, became inordinately thirsty, aad stopped for milk at a house by the road side. They emptied every basin that was offered, aad stiil wanted more. The woman of the house at length brought an enormous bowl of milk, and sat it down on the table, saying, " One would think, gentlemen, you had never been weaned."

" Are the jury agreed ?" asked a judge of a court attache whom he met on the stairs with a bucket in hia hand. " Tis," replied Patrick, " they have agreed to sind out for a half-g«allon." The following " warning " ia posted on a man's grounds a few mile 3 off Hoboken : " Take notice, whosoever is found trespassing on these grounds will be shot and. prosecuted."

The Pope manifests great grief at his brother's death, and the day after he received the news, performed the devotion of ascending the Holy Stairs on his knees for the benefit of the soul of the deceased. " Aw !" exclaimed an English cockney to a Western traveller in England, " speaking of the law of primogeniture, 'aye you hentail in Amewica ?" " Hentail !" said the American, looking at his interrogator with curiosity, " no, sir ; we> have the cock-tail in America, and a very popular drink it is.'* Hollow ay's Pills. — Nothing preserves th» health so well as an occasional alterative in tbo 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, diarrhoea, dysentery, and other maladies, and giving tone and energy to debilitated constitutions. All whohave the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family's health, cannot do better than trust to Holloway's Pills, which cool, regulate, and strengthen. These purifying Pill* are suitable for all ages, seasons, climates, and constitutions, when all other means fail. They are the female's best friend.