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Temuka Leader, Issue 1145, 6 September 1883, Page 3

Mother Swan’s Worm Syrup.—lnfallible, tasteless, harmless, earthartic ; for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipation. Is, at Druggists. MosesjMosa and Co, Sydney, General Agents. A Rattlesnake’s Bite. The quick venom of the rattlesnake has not killed so many people as the more insidious but deadly poisons found in the air of foul rooms. The aeration of the blood by the lungs becomes impossible sometimes, and the fading health, growing weakness, and loss of appetite are harbingers of approaching death. For such cases Hop Bitters are the potent and all-powerful remedy lo drive fevers out of the system, purifying the blood and giving a new and happy lease of life. Notice. A Wsstesn Australian Prison.—The condition of the Rottnesst Prison, Western Australia, where Native prisoners are cor.« fined, has attracted considerable attention of late. The Perth Inquirer ‘’writes : —‘ Poor wretches, suddenly removed from a tropical climate, to be confined on a cold, spraybeaten island, situated 1000 miles south of their own district, have been attacked epidemic, from the effects of which they have been dying off like flute-rotted .sheep What has been the state of these afflicted prisoners, thus struck down by the ravages of a cruel disease engendered by the effect upon their systems of an, to them, unnaturally cold and humid climate ? They, have been housed like pigs, they have been,treated worse than dogs. Lying in their own filth,from : which they'were too weak to even crawl, insufficiently clad, improperly fed, without the necessary skilled medical attendance, they have died—died under conditions of indescribable horror, which ought t'o bring down the vengeance of tbeir Maker upon the beads of those whose callous neglect has allowed such a state of things to occur. Even when dead the poor wretches are not at rest. There is a burial-ground on the island, in which the bodies of the dead are buried deep enough only for the earth to little more than cover them. There are pigs on the island also, the gate of the cemetery is more frequently open than shut, the pigs are allowed to roam about, and—but we will not disgust the public by entering into any more details.

w ILLIAM H OOPER SHOEING AND GENERAL SMITH Waitohi Road, Temuka. Next Volunteer Hall