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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5170, 12 August 1885, Page 2

An English physician, Dr Meitkerke, in a recent publication, ventures the state* ment that a single patent medicine, rery popular as a soothing draught for infants, "is the undoubted cause of the death of 150,000 children annually " in the Kingdom of Great Britain. We have heard it stated, says the Wairarapa Standard, that where a peach tree is sheltered from the southerly weather there is no appearance of the blight, and the inference is that the destruction of these trees is to be attributed to olimatic influences and not to an insect. We should like some of our subscribers to make a note of this and give their I experience. So impressed with this idea are some of our Wairarapa Bottlers that it is proposed, to erect a wall running from/east to west and plant these trees on the northern side of it. Instances have been brought under our notice where peach trees, growing at the ' northern side of a house, hare yielded plentifully, while others but a few yards distant, exposed to the southerly weather, hare been barren, HollOWay's Pills— ln order that the slightest indisposition may not rapidly run its disastrous course . from bad to worse, the afflicted of every age and class should give it immediate attention. A few doses of those thoroughly purifying and strengthening Pills will always be:; beneficial' When the least disorder reigns or when nervous fears oppress. Two or three Pills at bed time have the happiest effect in promoting ' perfect digestion, whereby the muscles arc rendered more vigorous, the spirits more buoyant and the entire frame more hardy. Ilollowav's medicine increases, the quantity of nutriment derivable from a given quantity, of food, and so the quality of the Wood is improved, the" tone 'of every fibre throuKhoflt the body is heightened, and the dig position to fall mto disease is reduced to a rainim«m t