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Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 107, 25 December 1878, Page 2

The Compliments of the Season to You, Sir, and Madam!-— The present being the second Christmas since the Leader has been in existence, we embrace the opportunity of thanking our numerous and steadily increasing number of readers and advertisers for the liberal support they have accorded fo this journal. We take it as an evidence that the independent manner in which it lias been conducted meets with their approval. This course therefore we mean to pursue, and wishing them all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR, we take our leave of the subject and the cares of the world for the purpose of enjoying what we hope for them, a pleasant holiday. Christmas Decorations.— The butchers of Tenmka, and of these Messrs Ackroyd and Whitehead, were the first to dress their business places in festal attire. The corner shop was . prettily decorated on Monday with fronds of fern, cabbagetrees, green boughs, and flowers. The show of meat was very good, and comprised all the usual varieties, with geese and fowls to boot. Prominent amongst the carcasses were those of four Lincoln sheep. The largest of these weighed 1801 b, and appeared to be a mass of fat. All four, indeed appeared too fat for human consumption. Mr B. Thompson's preparations for a display were delayed through building operations, but about dusk his stock was ready for exhibition. The pick of the stock was hung up outside, and was illuminated by two flaring cressets. (Colonially, slush-lights.) Very pretty indeed it looked, .Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, and titivated off, as only a truly artistic workman could do it, and profusely ornamented with flowers, —it seemed a pity to cut ’em up. Mr Lee had some equally good meat, but his shop being out of town, he did not attempt anything in the way of decoration. Several of the other business places made some more or less successful attempts at decoration. Messrs Lyon and Harrop dressed their grocery window neatly with samples of still room and butler’s pantry goods, and Messrs Wilson and Sons’ drapery window was extremely pretty. Mr Mendelson had a very seasonable show irt; one of his windows, not pretty, but suggest!ye—a pile of cases, of the best brands, no doubt. Among the storekeepers, Messrs Lyon and Harrop bore away the palm —and hung a bottle of cognac amidst its leaves. As we went to press, a few ladies of the congregation were busily preparing festoons and garlandsior the decoration of the English Church, where divine service will be held this morning.

Billiards. —Mr Blackburn, the lessee of the only table now accessible in Temuka, informs us that he has, en route , a number of excellent pictures which he intends to offer as prizes to be competed for in a billiard tournament during Christmas week.

Temperance. —Mr" Gough, speaking at Exeter Hall lately, said that the ranges of argument were limited bj his often speaking, and by bis leaving the physiological arguments to physiologists and biblical arguments to biblical scholars. He promised to present to his audience only the subject, “The, disease, the cause, the cure,” which he explained as referring to the “disease, drunkenness; the cause, drink ; the cure, total abstinence.” If the world would come to look at the facts.in their plain and simple light, every sensible man would adopt that view.; but. the difficulty was to get people to argus the question; for if they would but enter generally upon a discussion of the subject, they must see it in its true light. The went on to urge that temperance was natural, fwhilo alcohol drinking was

unnatural, just as was the use of tobacco ; for no one ever heard a baby cry for a pipe, or for alcohol, and the habits of using these things were acquired. The fact. was, the speaker said, the moderate people led the others on. No one became a drunkard at once ; it was in the endeavour to be a moderate drinker that the drunkard was made. All a man’s Christian discipline would not, save him from being a drunkard unless be kept from the drink. As to the help which might come from the Legislature, ho declared from his own experience that it was no use for legislation to go beyond public sentiment. He spokes hopefully of the temperance question in this country, and he told his hearers that in their labours to abolish the liquor traffic not to be dismayed by the fact of the vast capital invested in it,- for it was as nothing compared with that invested in the slave trade before the fall of that trade in America.

Holloway’s Pills and Ointment.— Irritable Bowels —To be able to arrest the progress of bowel complaints must be a very desirable object: nothing will accomplish this so safely and certainly as Holloway’s Ointment well rubbed twice aday over the abdomen. It has an advantage over every other astringent, since it restrains the purging without interfering with the stomach or liver. ; On reaching the bowels this unguent soothes their irritated lining and simultaneously relieves all griping, purging, vomiting, disagreeable eructations, and gives general ease, without danger of checking the diarhoea too suddenly. In dysentery the same treatment, aided by proper doses of Holloway’s Pills, will allay the excessive straining stop the discharge of slimy matter, and painlessly prevent both ulceration and danger.