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Temuka Leader, Issue 1567, 12 April 1887, Page 3

A number of Port Chalmers people have memorialised the Legislature to apportion £3OOO of the Kaitangata fund towards the Bulli relief fund. The fastest vessel in the world is the French torpedo boat Ouragan. She has made about twenty-nine miles an hour. America is a big customer for the wool in England, Scotland, and Ireland, taking in 1886 rather more than half the total clip—-twenty-one million* of pounds, Rome idea of the immensity ftf the glass trade and manufacture in the United States may be had from the fact that a single order just delirerad by a Pittsburg factory to a New York house included 5000 barrels of glass tumblers, all of the same pattern, each barrel containing 20 dozen, making in all 1,200,000 tumblers. Wblls Haib Balsam—lf gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, softens and beautifies. No oil nor grease, A Tonic Restorative. Stops hair coming out. stregthens, cleans?*, hails scalp, Kempthorae, Prosser ana 00., Agents, Christchurch. 2 It is said that the firm ofjßaring Brothers, London, recently presented to the whole of their staff of clerks, as a Obristmas-boz, one year’s salary. This was done in consequence of the firm’s great success in floating Guinness’ Stout Company. The firm is currently reported to have aleared one million sterling over the operation. The heathen Chinee is going to invade Berlio. An enterprising Teuton is importing a number of Celestials to set up Chinese laundries in the German capita). “ Is anybody waiting on you I ” said a polite draper to a girl from the country, “Yes, sir,” said the blushing damsel, “that’s my feller outside. He wouldn’t come in.” The black ex-Queen of Assab, now visiting Europe, refused the aid of doctors during a recent indisposition on the ground that it was against African etiquette for white hands to touch her. A Lady’s Wish.— “Oh, how I do wish my skin was as clear and soft as yours!” said a lady to a friend. “Tou can easily make it so,” answered the friend. “ How?” inquired the first lady. “By using Dr. Soule’s Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did for me, as you observe.” Bead Advt. The latest story in prophecies is anent Maharaja Dhulip Singh, the noted Sikh. The “ Saojibani,” an Indian paper, says, relative to the matter; Dhulip Singh is now residing in Paris, and has given up his connection with his wife and children. This change in the Maharaja has set many speculating. It is thought that Dhulip Singh may come out to invade India, joining the Russians. In one of the Sikh books it is stated that in the year 1899 Maharaja Dhulip Singh will invade India and extend his dominions from the Funjaub to the valley of the Ganges,