THE DUST.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 262, 6 February 1873, Page 6

THE DUST.

{To tlie Editor.) ' Srfi, — In your last issue lobserve a letter signed " Health," thewriter of which appears to have lost limself in •trying to vindicate Cr. HI in his

excess of public duty. "Health" thinks an injustice has been done; but I fail to see how any sane man can blame councillors that faithfully fulfil their public duties and check any attempt at fast conduct. "Health" also asserts in his effusion that he thinks Cr. Hill deserves better treatment — perhaps he does, and I hope he will in future obtain what is his due. I give the writer of the letter a hint : When lie writes about any matter affecting the public interest let him avoid fiction. On this occasion his letter is based upon inaccuracy, as can be proved by three persons that were present in Cr. Walker's store when Burrows came to ask that gentleman to give his consent to employing labor to water the streets. Mr. Walker distinctly said, if Mr. Hill and others wanted the streets watered, they should pay for it themselves, as the water had cost too much already ; and he concluded by refusing hia consent in strong language. " Health " I hope, when he rakes up another mare's nest, will sign his real name, instead of hiding his identity under a mon de plume ; and I also recommend him to purchase spectacles to enable him to take a cleav view of all circumstances connected with the question at issue. 1 have heard that Cr. Hill has taken the remarks made as personal. I hope not. for in tho war of politics, both colonial, provincial, or civic, hard blows must be given or taken. — Yours, &c,

[Enough dust- has been raised about this matter, and tho correspondence relative to it must here close. — Ed.]

Verbal Memory. — The late Hugh Stuart Boyd Esq. — eminent for his attainments as a Greek scholar — was remarkable for the strength of what may be called a verbal memory, which he well improved by enriching his mind with choice pages of the sacred and classic writers. The following is a list obtained from him by Dr. Adam Clark of the number of lines he was able to repeat — Greek prose : Septiir agint, 30 ; Greek Testament 120; G-regf ory Nazianzen, 1,860 ; Basil, 460 ; Chrysostom, 640 ; Gregory JSTyssen, 15 ; Methodius, 35 ; Heliodorns, 30; a few passages of heathen writers, 90. Total of Greek prosp, 3,280. Greek verse : Greg. Naz. Carolina, 1,310 ; Synesii Hymni, 156 ; Homer, 330 ; Eschylus. 1,800 ; Sophocles, 430 ; Euripedes, 350 ; Pindar, 90 ; Meleager, 83; Bion, 91, Moschus, 120 ; Poem in life of Plotinus, 10. Total of Greek verse, 4,770.. If he were to have kept the passages from the Fe I )tua<.i.it and New Testament, for Sundays, and have repeated the rest on week-days, they would have occupied four weeks, were he to have repeated about 327 lines a diy. — Etheridge's Life of Dr. Adam Clarke. A flash of lighbening from a clear sky hoisted a Cincinnati alderman and a fireman, with whom he was talking, twenty feet from where they were talking. They were taken home in pieces. The saddest instance of misplaced confidence on record is that of a Conneecticut man, who rescued another from a watery grave only to find instead of his long lost brother it was a person to whom he owed three dollars and a half for turnips. A letter from Bucharest reports a curious atmospheric phenomena which occurred there on the 25th ultimo, at a quarter past nine in the evening. During the day the heat was stifling. The sky was cloudless. In the evening everybody went out walking, and the gardens were crowded. The ladies were mostly dressed in low white-necked robes. Towards nine o'clock, a small cloud appeared on the horizon, and a quarter of an hour afterwards rain be<*a,n to fall, when to the horror of everybody, it was found to consist of black worms the size of an ordinary fly. All the streets were strewed with these curious animals. We trust thera was some one in the town sufficiently interested in natural history to preserve some specimens, that we may hear something further respecting this phenomena. — "Levant Times." Our Roman Catholic fellow colonists, seem determined to carry into practice their views ou the Fduc.ition question. A new school under the auspices of that body, is to be established almost immediately at Waipori, and we hear that j in several other centres of population, like steps will be taken to prevent Koruan Catholic children straying from the faith of their fathers. The Friday half-holiday, is still faithfnlly observed by the citizens of Lawrence. Holloway's Ointment and Pills cannot be too highly commended, for the favourable influence they exercise over the skin. In all eruptions, inflammations, and ulcerations the detergent qualities of this unguent render it so efficacious in first cleansing and purifying the diseased part, then inducing renewed and healthy action, ns to ultimately leave the stirface in the highest health. Holloway's Ointment works the most wonderfully beneficial results in ba I legs, chronic sores, &c, by improving and quicken ; ng the sluggish and imperfect circulation, removing all corrupt matters and increasing the disposition to heal. Holloway's Ointment throws no deleterious drawback on the functi m of the skin ; it manifestly augments its evaporation and perspiration, whereby softness .and pliability supplant its previously harsh and dry state. DR. BRIGHT'S PHOSPHODYNE.— Multitudes of people are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver complaints, Depression cf Spirits, Delusions, Unfitness for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, Sight and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Power, &c, whose case admit of a dermenant cure by the new remedy PHOSPHODYNE. (Ozonic Oxygen), which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfeebled constitution, and readily cures every stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. Sold by all Chemists and Storekeepers throughout the Colonieß, from whom Pamphlets containing testimonials may be obtained. CAUTION.— Be particular %o ask for Dr. Bright's Phosphodyne as imitations are abroad, and avoid purchasing single bottles, the genuine article "being sold in cases only*