LIABILITY OF SHIPPING COMPANIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2245, 25 August 1891, Page 3

LIABILITY OF SHIPPING COMPANIES.

A question of considerable importance to New Zealand and to dairy farmers out there'in particular is (writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) likely shortly to come on or hearing in one of the English' laws courts. It is as to •whether, or not a steamship company

| should be liable for damage sustained ; to dairy produce in transit from the i colony through defective cool-chamber I arrangements. The firm of Boyd and I Grant, of Liverpool—whose turnover ! of New Zealand produce last year amounted I am credibly informed, to £40,000 or £50,000, received per the Eimutaka a large consignment of cheese, the greater portion of which was found on arrival to be in a highly unmerchantable condition. From what could be gathered in London, the bursting of a steam pipe appears to have been the cause of the damage. One of the experts who went down the hold to see the cheese says that the chamber was filled with vapour, and that his spectacles became so clouded that he was unable to see through them. This gentlemen would seem to be a bit of a humourist, for, addressing a friend on entering the cool chamber, he said, " Well, they've sent Welsh rarebit this time." Of course Boyd and Grant sought to recover the loss from the New Zealand Shipping Company. But Mr Stickland, the manager, wrote that while regretting the circumstances of the loss to Boyd and Grant the company had certainly accepted no liability in the matter, and that this was clearly set forth in all their bills of lading. The result is that the firm instructed their solicitor j to proceed in the matter. Next day, j however, the manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company wrote to j Boyd and Grant to say that at a board meeting it was decided that the j company should reconsider their j decision. j

WHAT BACCARAT IS.

Baccarat is a favourite fasionable gambling game of England and the Continent. It is a gambling game pure and simple, may be played by any number of players, and with any number of cards. All bet against the dealer, who banks and deals from a box similar to -a cigar box. ' The face cards each count ten, and the others to the number of their spots. After the bets have been made the banker deals two cards' to each of the players, including himself, but the other players must receive their cards before the banker is served.

The aim of the players is to make the number 9, 19, 29, or as nearly those as possible, as 8, 18, 28. Any player is' at liberty either to " stand with the two cards first dealt or to call for more, at the risk of exceeding 29, when the stake is forfeited to the dealer.

If, after the first distribution of two cards to each, any player has a " natural "—that is, a sum making 9, or next in value 19—he declares it, and the banker pays all who hold superior hands to his own, and claims from those holding inferior hands. The players stake their money separately, there being, in fact, as many separate games in progress as there are players, and the spectators may wager their money on any of them, all of which must be accepted by the banker.

Prior to the banker making a start, he states the amount in the bank —for example, £s*o. Anyone sitting down at the table has the right to call the whole of the bank, selecting the left or the right on which to pick up the cards. If the bank is not called, then the banker proceeds to deal to £25 a side, or as much of it as may be "marked" or called—the former meaning that the banker has accepted the bet without the money being staked. The latter course, however, is quite the exception, the ready coin being invariably planked. Previous to the banker dealing the cards, it is the duty of two croupiers, one on the right and the other on the left, to count up the stake deposited on either side, and then make up the bank. Thus the banke/knows to the smallest coin the exact amount of his liabilities. Had the game been properly played at Trandy Croft no one would have stood an earthly chance of cheating.

MIGRAINE. Nervous headaches and neuralgia are the first, surest, and most reliable symptoms of approaching decline of physical health. They are distinctly nerve pains, an infallible telegraph message prognosticative of approaching physical weakness. They are intimations that the strength is being impaired. Over-work of any description must result in enervation and enfeeblement of the corporeal structure. This wear and tear (termed by scientists destructive metabolism) may be brought about by worry, excessive mental or physical labour, by continual attention to business, by bad food, bad air, or any acute sickness, the duties of maternity, the strain of motherhood, dissipation, and many other causes. The proper remedy is Clements' Tonic. This must and will cure the worst and most severe cases. This is a positiye fact ; it has done it, and will do it again always. We are thus emphatic because we know we are talking facts, which the evidence of a disinterested person proves. Mr Henry A. Crane, a gentlemen wellknown all over the colony, writes: Dear Sirj—For the last seven years I have been a victim to the most excruciating agony from neuralgia, and also suffered from extreme nervousness. I tried hundreds of so-called specifics, but without avail; and being a commercial traveller, am particularly liable to colds from exposure to draughts, &c; a slight one even, always fled to my facial nerves, and caused neuralgic pains, preventing sleep and causing excessive sympathetic headache. I saw Clements' Toni-J, advertised, procured a bottle, and in two days the pain was completely cured, a consummation I had never expected and am deeply thankful for gtuue.. This was four months ago,

and from then till now I have never had the slightest twinge of the excruciating i torture I used to have. You may make li whatever use of this you like. W.. H. [East, Esq., Stanthorpe, Dulwich HiU, i N.SW., suffered a martydom of headaches, due to disordered liver and indigestion, frequently having to leave his work in the middle of the day. He took a course of Clements Tonic, and writes : Stanthorpe, Dulwich-.street, Petersham.—Dear Sir,—For years I have been a great sufferer from headache, which has at times so prostrated me that I have been totally unable to attend to my work. I have consulted the most skilled physicians in Sydney, and spent considerable money in fees and medicine. I, however, obtained only temporary relief, as they treated the effect, and not the cause. I was recommended Clements Tonic, and determined to test its efficacy, and I am very grateful for the good results which have followed its use. I took five bottles and am wonderfully improved, and have had no return of those excruciating headaches since taking that valuable remedy. Results like this must encourage your laudable efforts to alleviate the sufferings of your fellqw men ; and you have my sanction to publish this. Sydney Cunningham, Esq.,. 70, Watkin-street, Newton (N.S.W.), writes as follows: —Dear Sir, —Having been a long sufferer from neuralgia, which weakened me considerably, and using various remedies without benefit, I was induced to give Clements Tonic a trial, and am pleased to inform you that the result exceeded mj utmost expecta- , tions, and after taking five large bottles I feel better than ever I did in my life I before. My wife and other members of our family have used it with equal success, and I can strongly recommend it to others suffering in a like manner, and offer you this unsolicited testimonial to use as you think fit. Reader, can any other medicine show such a record _ of cures as Clements Tonic 1 We think not. _ ■ \

Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— Rheumatism and Gout.—These purifying and soothing remedies deserve the earnest attention of all persons liable to gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The Ointment should be applied after the affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water, when the Ointment should be diligently rubbed upon the adjacent skin, unless the friction causes pain. Holloway's Pills should be simultaneously taken to diminish pain, reduce inflammation, and purify the blood. This treatment abates the violence, and lessens the frequency of gout, rheumatism, and all spasmodic diseases which spring from hereditary predisposition, or from any accidental weakness of constitution. The Ointment checks the local malady, while the Pills restore vital power.