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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 23 October 1882, Page 3

Railway Aimunoobments. —The manner in which tho heavy traffic on the line was arranged last week reflects much credit upon Mr Kotherani, the manager, and Mr Marcus the stationmaster. Everything Becnis to hare passed off without a hitch, and to the satisfaction of the travelling public. In order that the heavy goods which had accumulated should be disposed of without delay, a long special train was despatched northwards at 5.10 a.m., and another southwards at 6.45 on Saturday morning last. On Friday afternoon the outgoing trains took away fully 400 passengers, and all Friday night watchmen were stationed on the wharf and in the station premises to protect the great quantity of goods waiting to be despatched the next morning. Sydney Taiwiulkga. — The Auckland correspondent of the Witness writes: — " While public attention in the colony and at Home is being directed to the sayings and doings o£ that clover Maori charlatan, Sydney Tawhauga, his European wife and half-cast children are nearly starving in Auckland. The eldest boy, a child of some five or six years of age, has been taken forcibly from his mother by the Maoris, and is now employed scraping gum on a Northern giunflcld. This is the child who was named Heri ICerci Hone Hcani, after the great proconsul and his ex - Native Minister, through being, according to Sydney's dictum, the only legitimate halfcaste in New Zealand, and a boy thus doubly honoured by bearing two such illustrious names might have been spared so sad a fate as that of gum-scraping in a Maori lsainga. The relieving - officer is ministering to the necessities of the wretched mother and her other children, and when Sydney returns here from his English embassy mission ' a bad quarter of an hour, awaits him from an enraged spouse and a stern Government official who guards the charity of the State with a vigilance which admits of no successful imposition being practised upon it. The mo 3* flattering tribute to the merits to TTdolpho Woipe's Schiedam Ahomatic Schnapps is to bo found in the fact that, although repeatedly pirated, and often imitated, nothing has ever been produced that even stimulates the matchless preparation. All the adulterated compounds and noxious nostrums, the diluted cordials and sickly elixirs that have been foisted on the public, bear no more the shadow of a semblance to this excelling invigorant than the strongest artificial light to the great luminary of the cl a y-—-AJ> TT-