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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4335, 22 November 1882, Page 3

The Malays have at all times been addicted to gambling. Jn those days, in Ceylon, they, would "play, away the ends of their fingers" over the draught board. They would sitd>wn with a fire burning whereupon was set a pot of walnut or sesame oil. while beside it lay a small hatchet with an exceedingly sharp edge. 1 he loser placed bis hand upon a stone, and the winner chopped off a joint, when the mutilated finger was plunged into the boiling oil and thereby cautarized. Some men fond of the game, but unskilful or uplucky, had every finger shorn off its tip. —All the Year Bound. The girl Annie Freebody, at Wellington, reclaimed from native custody, waß surrendered by his Honor Mr Justice Richmond in Chambers yesterday merning, by virtue of a writ habeas corpus, and afterwards delivered over to the custody of her sister. The Globe says that £7200 has been set apart for experiments in working trains by electric engines through (he St. Gothard tunnel. Holloway'S Pills.— Nothing preserves the health so well as an occasional alterative in changes of weather, or when the nerves are unstrung 1. These' Pills act admirably on the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and so thoroughly purify the blood, that they 1 are the most efficient remedy in warding off derange ments of' the stomach, fever, diarrhoea, dysentry, and other maladies, and giving tone an. energy to debilitated constitutions. All *ho have the natural and laudal'le desire of maintaining' their own and their family's health, cannot" do hotter than trust to Holloway's Pills, which cool, regulate, and strengthen. These purifying Pil's are- suitable for all ages, seasons, climates, and constitutions, when all other means faii, and are the female's best friend.

Meetings THAMES HOSPITAL. A SPECIAL MEETING- of the Hospital J\. Committee will be held in the Old Men's Home on THURSDAY, 23rd instant, at 3 p in. Business : —To appoint a Medical Officer to lake charge of the Fever Hospital aud settle any matters connected therewith. By order, E. Honiss, Secretary. Tenders PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL. TE AROHA TRAMWAYSSLEEPER CONTRACT. \T: BITTEN TENDERS will be received * * at the office of the undersigned until NOON of MONDAY, 4th December next for the supply of about 6,800 Sleepers, accordiog to specifications and conditions to be seen at the office of the undersigned, at the office of ihe Thames County Council, Thames, or at the office of Mr Gh H. A. Pubchask, Te ' Aroha. Tenders to be endorsed "Tenders for Sleepers." The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Auckland, Ulh Not., 1882. Jameb Stbwabt, 742 ' ■ Ci»il Engineer. At * very pleasant tea party, the conversa* tion turned on transmigration. A lady of exquirile beauty who was sipping MoQowAK.B . bes% turned to Mr and »*keH what form he would prefer to inhabit ? Tr s« dw^od 8i THA. rnft-I&J'J. . .