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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 123, 22 February 1879, Page 2

The ‘ Evening Echo’ (an Ashburton paper) says :—ln the nineteenth century, when we are all engaged in the insidious pursuit of the mighty dollar, a case of commercial liberality commends itself to our senses, not alone for its munificence but also for its sweet rarity. One of our landed aristocracy (as I wish to do him unqalified honor I might reveal his name —Allen M'Lean) has, in consideration of the poor season, reduced the rents of his tenants from ,50s to 15s per acre. Mr M‘Lean has taken the initiative in a course which will be highly appreciated by those directly benefited, and which I hope to see largely imitated by wealthy landlords occupying similar positions. A story is sent to me (writes “ Atlas,” in the ‘World’), about the late Mr M'N’ab, Curator of the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. When Dubufe’s celebrated paintings of Adam and Eve were on exhibition, Mr M‘Nab was taken to see them, and was ashed for his opinion. “ I think no great things of the painter,” said the great gardener. “ Why, man, Eve’s temptin’ Adam tvi’ a pippin of a variety that wasna known until aboot twinty years ago !” As genuine a bit of (riticism as that of the farmer who told George Morland that he had never seen eight little pigs feeding without c * of them having his feet in the trough. Morland altered the picture. Professor Yillari, as au intimate friend of Garibaldi, declares in his lately published work in Italy, that tiro day laborers in Apulia work fourteen hours a day for 30 centimes, or about Sd. lu Milan “ tire laborers arc treated worse tlran dogs.” Signor Cardani, Director of the Lombardian Agricultural Institute, considers the peasants in Lombard}’ tbo poorest and most wretched of all laborers. The women at thirty-five look sixty, and peonle the vonre: in this world of misery.”

The condition of the city poor is something - appalling. In Venice there were, in 1870, 35,728 paupers, eighteen times the 1111111061' there were last century, 13.000 more than in 1860, and 2000 more than in 1867. In the pearl factories of the •* Queen of the Adriatic” workmen are paid from 26 to 30 centimes per day, while the average earnings of the 900.000 Lombardian female flax-spinners is only one franc per week ! The Melbourne ‘Daily Telegraph’ of the 28rd says t — c< The depreciation of property and impoverishment of labors, which is special to Victoria, must be caused by yurely local and artificial causes. Drought, rust, dearness of money, and the paralysis of trade, which is affecting the whole commercial world, has been felt in New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland, as much as in Victoria. Yet in none of these colonies is there a fall in the value of real property, of from 50 to 70 per cent. In none is trade so bad that insolvencies are becoming chronic ; that employment is shrinking, and labor augmenting. In none are arc there gatherings of unemployed, or a constant stream of emigration of those who are not too impoverished to escape from the colony. In none is the dominant political party so ruthless, so rapacious, so vindictive as to threaten broken heads and flaming houses to all who thwart them in their career.’^ Dr R. D. Unger, of Minnesota, writes to the ‘ New York Sun’“ In times past you have published numerous articles On the cure of drunkenness ; but none of them, as far as I have been able to discover, have resulted in relieving the victim they intended to benefit. With your permission, I will now give to the world-, through the ‘Sun,’ a sure and speedy cure for drunkenness-a cure that has been tried frequently, and always successfully. Let the inebriate—it matters not whether he is just getting off, beginning it, or is on a spree—begin by taking every two hours one drachm (teaspoonful) bf tincture of cinchona (Peruvian bark). This will make him feed good. He can increase the dose to six drachms (teaspoonfuls) without any clanger, and take in that proportion four to ten times-a day. It will not destroy his appetite for food. In the course of a few days the anti-pcriodic properties begin to -tell, and he loses not only all taste for the tincture, but also for everything in the way of alcohol. Recently in this city a wellknown gentleman—who has, in times past, been on his 500 dols. and lOOOdols. sprees—tried this remedy, telling the various druggists where he drank it that he was fighting, and would conquer, the .greatest demon on earth, but they .could hardly believe him. Yet he conquered, and the appetite for drink vanished. He was never nervous, never lost his appetite or sleep during the siege, and came out of the ordeal in perfect health. During the time the fever lasted I gave him two or three doses of simple medicine for his general health, but the tincture did the business. This case can he verified by the proprietors of seven of our drug stores. So well satisfied am I of the value of the treatment, that I will guarantee a cure in all cases, using this remeclv alone.