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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1811, 11 October 1884, Page 2

There are sixty Frenct: Catholic churches in Montreal. The cathedral situated there is 'the largely church building on the American continent. It is built of limestone, and 15,000 people have often been assembled under its roof.

The Geelong Advertiser writesA well known resident of this town, and an old colonist, in referring to some documents in his posession the other day came across several items of interest, They show how valuable land in the metropolis has become. In 1840 a parcel of 25 acres, now portion of the city of Richmond, was sold for £275. The same land, with the houses now resting upon it, could not be purchased for less than £1,000,000. The January-February number of the Chinese Recorder gave a careful and complete list of Christian missionaries in China, Japan, and Siam down to March, 1880. There are upwards of 500 missionaries, male and female, in China. The China inland mission has the longest list of all the secieties. Injj Japan there are 157 missionaries, The™ American board leads with thirty missionaries, and the Methodist Episcopal Church second, with 28.

It is not the fault of smokers and spirit-drinkers of New South Wales that the revenue of that colony last financial year was not all that could have been expected, In 1883-4," the i Customs revenue from spirits showed an increase of £71,768, as compared with 1882-3, and that from tobacco and cigars increased by £8,046. As to the excise branch, the duty on spirits distilled in the colony increased by £2,730; there was a new excise duty on tobacco and cigars which brought in £14,724, and the new tobacco factory license fees realised £552. Altogether, therefore, the classes referred to contributed nearly £IOO,OOO more to tho revenue last year than in the previous twelve months,

Don't pie in the house,-"Rough on Rats" dears out rats, mice,beotles, roaohes, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insect,a. moles, jaokabbits, gophers. 7J(I—N. Z. Drug Oompanyoi Flies and Bdgb —Beetles, insects, roache® ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers rabbit?, cleared out by " Hough on Rat°, 7Jd, Moses Mobs and Co,, Sydney, General Agents.

A Wise Deacon.—"Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and family so well last season, when all tho resj of ub have been sick so much and have hail the doctors running to us so often." "Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitters in time, and kept my family well and saved large doctor's bilk Four shilling* worth of it kept us'all well and able to work all the time aud I will warrant it cost you and most of your neighbours £lO to £IOO apiece to keep sick the same time. I fancy you,ll take my medicine hereafter," See

A Lady's Wish,—" Oh how I do wish my skin was as clear and soft as yours," sai da lady to a friend, You can easily make it so," answered the friend, " How'?" inquired the first lady._ "By using Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did for me, as you observe," Read.

Holloway's Pills ami Ointment,— Dyspepsia, Jaundice,—Theso complaints ate the results ot a disordered liver, which secretes bile in quality or quantity unsuitable for digestion, which req-iires a free flow of healthy bile, to insure which Hollo, way's Pills and Ointment have long been famous, far eclipsing all other remedies, Unsuitable food irregularity of living, unhealthy climates, and other causes are conshntly throwing the liver into disorder, but that important organ can, under all circumstances, soon be regulated and healthily aduated by Holloway,s Pills and Ointincut, •gliich acta directly upon its secreting cells, Ointment rubbed on the skin penetrates immediately to the. liver whose tissues it rectifies, One trial is all tbat is needed; a cure will soon follow,