A CORRECTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 5 June 1869, Page 3

A CORRECTION.

(To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times.}

Sin, — I am sorry to trouble you on this occasion, but you know opposition is the life of trade. I see in your last issue a letter signed J. E. Gascoigne. I hope when J. R. Gascoigne again puts an explanation in the newspapers he will correct himself in future, and put in the whole truth. He says that Mr. Pearson stated on oath that owing to Hunter's case he told him he would be " one in for him." That statement; I deny. I said that owing to Hunter's case, and as Hunter could not be ore with me, he said he would. I never said he told it to mo or any of my family, but I said he told it to otr. is. If the witness had been out of Couit in that case, 'as is usual in* other 3, I do not hesitate to say that the loa - stone would have droppod at his o^n door first. In reference to the dama c done by animals to me; he general y gets out of it by denying ownershij ; but that I me.in to correct in futu. c by finding the owner.— l am, &:•., W. Jons Pearson, Farmer. View Point, Lawrence,. June 4, 1869.

Curious Calculation's. — Ifc has recently been asked what would be the intensity of a man's voice, in proportion to hisbulk. if compared to- that of the grasshopper? Now this insect may be heard at the distance of onesixteenth of a mile, or 110 yards ; anr! r as a man weighs as much as 20,000 of its fellows, if. the same proportion were observed in the intensity of the-hu-man voice, the latter could be heard a distance of 1625 miles — ■which means, for instance, that Sir E. Napier might, from Abyssinia, have carried on conversation with Sir Stafford Northcote in Downing-street. If under such circumstances, a man were to snefeze while at home, the house would^feumbl V

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us ears.

Filcher is gifted with such a retentive memory that he retains not only the contents of a book, but the volume itself, when it chances to be a borrowed one* as it usually is.

Holloimy's Ointment and Pills. — Rheumatism and Gout.— These purifying and soothing remedies demand the earnest attention of all person* liable to rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, ne;ves, or joints. The Ointment should be applied afterthe affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water,, when the unguent should b» diligently rubbed upon the adjacent skin, unless the friction should cause pain. Holloway'a Pills should simultaneously taken to reduce inflammation and to. purify the- blood. This treatment abates tho violence^ and lessons thet frequency of gout, rheumatism, and all spasmodic diseases, which spring from hereditary pre-diaposition, or from any accidental weakness of constitution. The Ointment checks the local malady, the Pills restore the vital powers.

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