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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 174, 8 June 1871, Page 7

A new discovery has just been made (states the " Ballarat Courier ") which is likely to have a favourable effect on the fortunes of the Black-hill Company. A party of tributers have engaged in sinking on the flat portion of the claim, some distance from the crown of the hill, and at a depth of sixty feet have struck on a rich-looking leader, from which a prospect of 2ozs. was got from a dish of loose stone.

The Rev. Mr. M , of Cannongate parish church, Edinburgh, had been " before his betters " for using unparliamentary language ; but he got off with a slight reprimand. Returning to his flock one drizzly Sunday morning, he entered the vestry, and, nodding to the beadle, said, " Isn't this a damp, cold morning, John?" John, thinking the minister was continuing in his old ways, and mistaking the adjective " damp " for one with a somewhat similar sound, at once replied, " Most hellish, sir." [Dean Ramsay please copy.]

Hollowmfs JPills are the most gentle, yet most effective aperients, and therefore better calculated for a family medicine than any other drug. They always set the stomach right, rouse the liver, stimulate the kidneys, and thoroughly cleanse the whole system. Holloway's Pills are most useful in chronic weakness of the stomach induced by luxurious living, sedentry habits, or other causes. They have restored the emaciated to health after every other means had failed. While they are purifying they are strengthening, while regulating they are increasing nervous and muscular power. These Pills do not excite any violent action in the body; hence they are specially suited to the young and feeble, whose constitutions may be irretrievably injured by more powerful medicines.

A Procession of Living Skeletons. — The correspondent of the "Times" at La Vert Galant, outside Paris, narrates the following incident : — " Passing from La Vert Galant to Livry we ascended the Hill to Clicky, where we met a procession of French carts coming from the forts, in which they had been employed in drawing ammunition. There were about thirty of them, and nearly all had two horses attached in tandem fashion. If there were a Royal Humane Society here, it would have brought every one of the animals before a magistrate, and applied that the poor brutes might at once meet death by the pole-axe. I could not have believed that horses in such a condition could have walked. They were living anatomies. Scarcely one of them had a pound of flesh on his whole ear-case. Nearly all were white. Not only their bones were visible, but their veins, with the thin blood running through them, and positively making their coats appear pink rather than white, An exclamation of horror rose from every one that passed. The poor men and boys — most of them were lads — who led them were also starved looking. They wore old cloaks, which were in tatters, aud they seemed scarcely able to lift the wooden shoes in which they crept along."

At a recent rifle match at Henly-on-Thamea, tbe following item was in the programme ; — Fourth prize — " A. gold wedding ring and half a dozen silver teaspoons, to be won by a single man, but not to be retained by the winner unless he ahall get married within the year."

Scarlet fever is said to have g'jown itself in the neighbourhood of Westport.