Miscellaneous.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3353, 5 November 1889, Page 2

Miscellaneous.

It ia stilted that should Mr Bryce contest the Waitotara seat .it the next election he would receive tbo native vote.

In Lord Onslow's opinion the breed of curriago and saddle horses in New. Zealand is greatly in want of improve-

Sydney journalists have decided to form an association on the lines of

the British National Association of Journalists.

A novel corps is to be established in connection with the Queensland Irish volunteers, in the shape of cyclists and signallers. The Melbourne Daily Telegraph saya:—" Were it not for the city railways there would be a yawning yearly deficit in the railway system," Great progress has lately been made in connection with the work at the Centennial Hall, Sydney, and it is intended to open it early next month. A return laid on the table of the Victorian Assembly showed that £98,415 was received for publican's licenses during the financial year

1888-9. At the annual meeting of the South Australia Baptist Association a motion opposing the proposed grant of State aid to private schools was carried.

One of the escaped convicts from Geelong named Farrell, has been arrested near Lake Wcndouree. He attempted to stab tho constable who arrested him,

The traffic returns of the Napier

line for the month show an improvement to the extent ot £IOO as com-

pared with the corresponding month of last year. It is stated that Mr M'Millan, the London publisher, has presented Bibhop Barry with a commodious house and grounds near to London for the sole use of the Bishop and his successors.

A communication forwarded to the Queensland Colonial Secretary says that a grave in the cemetery at Cairns

has been opened and the remains of Alfred Engstrora removed. The removal is a mystery. A new Masonic Lodge of a special character has been formed in Adelaide. The leading objects of the lodge aro to cultivate a higher standard of Masnnio work, and to promote literary efforts and the diffusion of Masonic law.

It is understood to bo contemplated by the Mercantile Bank of Sydney to increase its paid up capital to £425,000 by a new issue of shares, the present capital of the bank is £225,000, and therefore the new issue will amount to £200,000. A special meeting of the Melbourne Tramway Trust has adopted the report of tie finance legislative committee, recommending that a Bill be introduced into Parliament this season to enable the trust to borrow £60,000 for the completion of tho tramway aystom. Swallows have been tried as " carriers," and are found to travel at about 100 miles an hour, Mrs Hodgson Burnett's salary for editing the children's department of a magazine is said to be £ISOO a year,

The Emperor of China- has hud a Court astrologer beheaded for making a false prediction The Emperor is very progressive.

Belgium has tho largest railway mileage in proportion to area, having fully 25 miles of railway to every 100 sqvare miles. 'ihe scheme is annOuhced for the construction of a ship canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow, The capital is placed at £7,000,000. The vine known as" the great vine"

at Hampton Court has nearly fifteen hundred bunches of grapes on it, all well coloured and looking healthy. All arrangements have been made

for Prince Albert Victor's visit to India during the .coming winter, Several Rajahs are preparing for tiger hunts.

Duelling, which has been dying out in England and tho United States, in both of which countries it is criminal, has received legal recognition in France.

Lord Salisbury is growing inconveniently stout. It is said he contemplates consulting the doctor who relieved Prince Bismark of his

aupnrfJuouH The Queen of Italy ascended to the summit of the Gornergat amid English cheers. Her Majesty drank on horse, baik to England and the Queen of England. The torchlight procession held ut Lourdes to celebrate some recent cures was led by thii Bishops of Tarbes and Nancy, The latter hail brought 1700 pilgrims from Lorraine, The entire benches of judges for the district circuit of Riga, Russia, have been arrested for using the German language after having been ordered to use the Russian.

Colonel James Reid, a lieuteuant in the 78th Highlanders at Waterloo, is now in Scotland, visiting the scenes of his childhood, He has lived in Canada for tho last seventy years, and is ninety-six years old. It has been notified at the War Office that the regulation permitting officers of the auxiliary forces to qualify for commissions in the regular army will only bo in force during lime of war, or special emergency. A report has reached Zanzibar that Dr Peters has shot four natives in the Vitu country, and that the people are consequently up in arms against him,

The Duke of Westminster, ha*

contributed the suni of |6OO towards a new vicarage for the church of the Holy Ascension, Upton, near his scat in Cheshire, The subject of the prizo essay of iho United Service Institution of India for next year will be " The Organisa. tion and Employment in War of Native Cavalry." Mr Badenock, D.G.C., of Orangemen, of England, has issued a manifesto inviting Orangemen throughout the kingdom to unite in opposition to Mr Balfour's scheme for the esttblisbment of a Catholic University in Ireland, At Versailles the well-known wild beaafc tamer Pezon had anarrow escape; hjspot (ion bit hjsband %o»gh, Pezon explained that the lion meant no harm, It was only, ho said, his way of intimating that he had done work enough on that day, Two mail bags arrived at Camberwell district post office one day which contained money to the value of £1,500. Soon after it was found that bags, seals, money, and all were missing, Their disupnearaflne is, a mystery,

In a letter received at Rome by Makonnen, chief of tbeShoan mission to Italy, King Menelek confirms tho intelligence that the whole of Abyssinia bus now submitted to his rule \yith the adoption of a small portion of the Tigre district,

A Mississippi man who counted the number of seeds in a bushel of various

grains found that corn went 72,130; wheat, 832,000; peas, 109,000; and cotton seed, 161,186,

In Iceland the Good Templars have™ begun fin agitation for prohibiting. The wholo population of Iceland is but 70,000 to 80,000, and of theao several thousands are Good Templars. The remainß of Ptsoul Di Paoli, the famous Corsican patriot, who died in exile near London in 1807, have been exhumed from Sb Piancraa Church burying ground, and shipped to Corsica, All tea and coffee drinkers can tell by their taste il the water from which the beverage is made has not boiled ' or boiled too' much. Either of these conditions will spoil the flavour of the costliest tea or the beat coflee berry. But not every one knows the reason how to avoid the result. The secret is putting good fresh water into a clean kettle already wm and setting it to boil quickly, then taking it right off to use in tea, coffee, and other drinks before it is spoiled. If the water ifl allowed to steam and simmer and evaporate till all the good of the water is in the w and all the lime and dregs left in the kettle, you must not expect a well-flavoured cup of tea , or coffee. { A fearful drama was enacted the othor day in the Belleville Cemetery. ■: An inhabitant of the locality, a M. Petit, was placing a mourning wreath on the tomb of his wife, when he heard groans proceeding from the direction of si clump of yew trees. Going ovor to the spot be found thero a man rolling about on the ground in convulsive agony. The.sufterer was conveyed to the watchman's lodge"* where, in answer to the doctor who had been called in, he said that he had swallowed a dose cf vitriol on the grave of the girl whom he loved and i who had died a few days ago, just as . sie'was about to bo married to him. i 'l'ho unfortunate victim of love and i vitriol is not expect to recover. . Keports just received from the Cape state that four distinct asbestos reefs, j running four feet wide, have been i struck on land bolonging to the j Griqualand West Copper syndicate, f The miieral is said to be of the finest 3 quality, and in "practically illimitable" quantities, and a statement is I made that it is worth fully L6O a ton. i. The first wool sale of the season in 0 Melbourne, under the authority of if the New Zealand Loan and Mercantilo e Agency Company, took plaee on the f 10th ultimo. The catalogue contained 4387 bales, The sale wa3 well 1 attended and bidding was brisk, ptices j ranging for greasy up to 12$, and for o scoured up to lOd and lid per lb. , This company is pushing its busines i energetically, e The steward of a Cardiff vessel has been presented with the Board of e Trade bronze nu>dal and L2 for putting j off to rescuo some of the crew of a e shipwrecked vessel when the crew of II his own vessel refused to go on account is of the gale which was raging,

Aii Interesting Letter from a Veteran. As this is Jubilee year it tends to make one look back and think of tho flight of time, and in this way lam reminded that lam ono of tho veterans in tho sale of your valuable and successful medicine, I have sold it from the very first, and havo sent it into every county in England, and many parts of Scotland. Well do 1 remember the first circular you sent out some nmo or ten years ago. You had como to England from Amorica to introduce Mother Seigel's Curativo Syrup, and I was struck with a paragraph in which you used these words:—" Being », stranger in a strange land, I do not wish *j the people to feel that I want to tako j the least advantage over them, I feol that I. havo a remedy that will cure disease, and I have so much confidence in it that 1 authorise my agents to relund tho money if people should say that thoy have not benefitted by its use. I felt at once that yon would novcr say that unless tho medicine had a morit, and I applied for the Agency, a stop which I now look back uponwith pride, and satisfaction Ever since that time 1 have found in by far the best romody for Indigestion and Dyspepsia I have mot with, and 1 have sold thousands of bottles. It hat never failed in any csiso whero thoro were any of the following symptoms : Nervous or sick hcadacho, sournoss of the stomach, rising of food a;tor oating, a sense of fullness and heaviness, dizziness, bad breath, slime nnd mucus on the gums and teeth, constipation and yellowness of the oyes and skin, dull and sleepy seutations, ringing in tho cars, heartburn, loss of apnetite, and, in short whether there are signs that the system ia clogge-I and tlio bluod is out of order Upon repeated (inquiries, covoring a ureal variety of ailments, my customers have always answered, •' 1 am better, or "lam perfectly well." Wbatlhavo seldom or never seen before in the case of any medicino is that people tell oach other of its virtues, and those who have ' been cured say to the suffering; "Go and get Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup twill inske you well. 1 ' Out of liniidhasof cures I will name one or two pepan to come to my mind. Two old gentlemen, wiiose names they would nut like mo to givo you, had been martys to Indigestion and Dyspepsia for many years. They had iried all kinds of medicine without relief. Ono of thorn as so Kid ho could not bear a glass of ea. Both were advised to uso the Syrup and both recovered, and wero as hale and hearty as men in the prime of life. A romarkablo case is thatot a houso painter named Jeffries, who lived at Penshurst, in Kent. His business obliged him to expose himself a great deal the wiind an weather, and he was seized with rheumatism, and his joints soon swelled up with dropsy, and were very stiff and painful, Nothing that tho Doctors could do seemed to reach tho heat of tho trouble. It so crippled him that lie could do hardly any work, and for the whole of the winter of 1(478 and "7t/, he had togivo up and take tnhis bed He had been nffliclod in this sorry way for three years, and was getting worn out and discouraged. Jlesides, ho hadspont over £IH for what hu called " doctor's stuff' without the loast bcnofit. In tho Spring lie heard of what Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup has done for others and bought a2s 6d bottle of me. In a few days ho sont me word that he was nnich bottor—before ho had finished the bottle. He then sent to me for a 4s fid buttle as_ I was going down that way I carried it down myself. On getting to his liouso what was my astonishment and surprise to find him out in tho gariden weeding an onion I could hardly believe my own eyes, and said- " You ought not to be out here, man t may be the death of you after bemr laid up all winter wth rheumatism and dropsy." His reply was:—"There is nodangora The weather is fine, and Mothor Seigel's urativo Syrup has done for me in a few days what tho ductors could not do in three years, I think I shall get well now." He kepi on with tho Syrup, and in threo weeks he was at work again, and has had no return of the troublo for now nearly ten years. Any medicine that p«n do this should be known all overtht world. t Signed) Item Graham, ' (Of Graham and Son.) RoHoway House, Sunbury, Middlesex June 25th, 1887. The above wonderful euro of Rhauma tiara was tho result of the remarkable power of Mother Soigol's Curatryo Syrup to clcanso the blood of the poisonous humours that arise from Indigestion and Dyspopsia, Mother Seigel's Curativo Syrup is for ealc by all chemists and medicine vendors and by the proprietors, A. J. While Limited, 35, Farringdon Road, London E, 0., Ewland,