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Temuka Leader, Issue 2287, 1 December 1891, Page 3

Molyneaux Gold. —The Minister of Public Works intimated to Mr Pyke that a survey would be made at once to ascertain the practicability of a scheme to erect a dam and floodgates at Lakes Wanaka and Hawea, with a view of laying bare a portion of the bed of the Molyneaux, with the view of prospecting its bed for gold. Singular Coincidence.— Most people must have been struck with the singular way in which typhoid fever seems dog to the footsteps of the English iioyal family. The Prince Consort died from it in 1861; in 1871 the Prince of Wales was seized with the same disease, and was literally snatched from the jaws of death; and now in 1891, Prince George, the Prince of Wales’ second son, is struck down with the same malady. Curiously enough, each patient was seized at almostly exactly the same time of the year. The Prince Consor died on the 14th December, and it was on that very day that the anxiety as to the Prince of Wales was at its height.

Glenalmond Collegb. —Mr Gladstone took part in celebrating the jubilee of Grlenalmond college in Pirthshire, Scotland. Sixty years ago his father laid the foundastoneofit, and 50 years ago he himself laid the foundation stone of a wing of it. It was chiefly got up by himself. When his father laid the stone, the poet Charles Wadsworth wrote: — In honours new, for high deserts arrayed, Gladstone, auspicious name, this basement land. Glad stone, laid here by Gladstone’s bounteous hand, Still blest with honours new for ever, ever stand? A Hoese with a Moustache. — There may be seen at Hyde Park corner, and at frequent intervals during the day, a horse that would make a comfortable living for its owner if placed on exhibition in a museum. Neither horse nor master, however, seems to he imbued with a desire for fame, and the latter is content apparently to serve out his days at his alloted task of drawing an express waggon about the city. He is an.ordinary-sized gray horse with an amiable countenance, and with nothing remarkable about him except the possession of a large and well-shaped moustache. The latter is kept carefully trimmed and brushed by the owner of the horse, hut the possessor of this unusual appendage seems to pay but little attention to it. He has never been known, at least, to stroke it as men do, but by watching him closely it may be observed that he eyes it occasionally in a critical sort of way. He is six years old and was bom in France, but so far as can be learned he is the only member of his family who has ever been blessed with either moustache or whiskers. On the contrary, his father’s lip was without suspicion of hair, and his mother, of course, was a stranger to such a thing. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.— Coughs and Influenza—The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs. In common colds and influenza the Pills taken internally and the ointment rubbed over the chest and throat, are exceedingly efficacious.' When influenza is epidemic, this treatment is the easiest, safest.and surest. Holloway’s Pills purify the blood, remove all obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs, relievo the over-gorged air tubes, and render respiration free, without reducing the strength irritating the nerves, or depressing the spirit; such are the ready means of escaping from suffering when afflicted with col Is, coughs, bronchitis, and other chest comI plaints, by which the health of so many is seriously and permanently injured In most countries.