MARVELLOUS CURES BY MR MILNER STEPHEN AT WELLINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1641, 11 January 1883, Page 4

MARVELLOUS CURES BY MR MILNER STEPHEN AT WELLINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

\V KLLI NUTOtf , Sli lldaj' . Mil Mii.xkr Btkpiikx yesterday afternoon gave an exhibition of his power to cure. The Athcnwum Hall was kindly lent for the occasion, and was crowded to excess. It has been estimated that fully 700 persons were piesrnt. Among them were the Hon. Thos. Dick and Drs. Kiy worth and Hutchinson. No charge was made for admission to the hall or from those who received tieatment. On ascending the stage Mr Stephen said this was tho first opportunity in New Zealand he had had of lecturing, and he wished to make a few explanations as to the power with which lie had been gifted by the Almighty. lie had for a long pcuod earnestly piayed to (Jod to give him powei to do borne wondciful or gi eat woi k before he died, ami tins wi.sh had now been fulfilled. He w.is loimoily a banister of these colonies, and it was while he was on ciiciut in New .South Wales that he .suddenly became awaie that the power had been bestowed. It ocenned in this manner. Mi Stephen was at thr house of a gentleman in .Sydney w hi> had buun deaf for ten yeais, when the thought came to tho former | that iv <:ould cuie him, and at once he \ imi t to carry out the idea, being ill in restoi ing hearing after the ti.i. . treatment. He read several extiacts hum Australian newspapers of | cures that he had eflected, and also an affidavit, of the medical officer of St. CSeoigo's Hospital, Melbourne, as to his j (Mr .Stephen's) ability to cure cancer. He mentioned several other wouderful cures he had effected, the principal of which were total blindness of a woman in Sydney, who had been given up by her medical advisers a& incurable, and that ol lengthening a young woman's leg seven inches. She had suffered from hip disease, and this had drawn up the leg. After passing his hands down the thigh, the hip commenced to grow — two inches on lirat occasion, three on the second, and then attained its natural length. The fact of his being endowed with this wonderful power had reached all quarters of the globe, and only a short time back he leceived a letter from a l.uly in Germany asking him to send to her some of his power to cine her husband. He denied that his cuies were only tempoiary, and contended that they w ere even more permanent than those of doctors. About thiity cases were tieatcd by Mi Stephen yestculay, those suffering pain being the lii&t taken. A lady was first to appear, sulleiiug from rheumatic fever, disease ot the lungs, and pains in her legs. Mr Stephen made certain passes about the legs, and breathing on a piece of led iliuncl placed it on the pa its afieuled, when the suticrer appealed to bu consideiably lelievcd. Her husband %\as then treated for epileptic fits. After having had his head btioked he was told that he might have one more fit, but that would be the last. Another old lady, who had been suftoi ing from iheumatism, called down tho blessing of the Almighty for having been relieved horn pain. Four or five cases of long-standing deafness were then treated with varying success. The larger number of the oases 01 deafness weie the result of cold after an attack of the measles. The next case was one that can fahly ha said to his woiideiful, and Mr .Stephen was loudly checicil TJii.s was a young named Dot a Hathaway, about five yoais of age, daughter of a resident at Mabteiton. She had suffered from pai.ilysis which lcndcicd it necessary for her to be cairied about. Mr Stephen took the child on his knees, and after hti oiling hi'i leys for a couple of minutes he put her down, and she ran across to her father. This \vu,s the most successful ci^c dining the, day. A case ot paituil blindness was acted upon, but it ■was not successful, although the patient .stated he could boo inuumuicible bubbles of light. A woman who had been deaf for twenty yeais was tieaU'd so that .she could hear the tick ot a watch. A lad outlining fiom asthma was lvhevcd, and could breathe lively A man who had lost the bight of one c)e had it impnned, and a lad about nun- jciiis old, naiiH-d Upliam, partially blind, s( itml lie could sco the people aiouud him Ho also tieatcd, With moic oi le:^ silicons, a numbci ot other cases, i'onipiisini; pains in the head and chest, deafness, lhcumatism, iujuiy to spine, paulyMs, blindness, spinal eontoition, bent knee, sciatica, and gout. MrStophon fu liis licatiuent uses only a siher lube, tluough w hidi ho bmithet, on to tin' \;nimi>, pails ol the body, led ll.innel, wadding, and magnetised oil. A br.ttle ot magnetised oil or water was piei' 'I lio cadi patient w hen leaving the uiother exhibition of a similar k. i .\ ill be given ne\t .Saturday.

A ijuaciv doctor heads his adveitibenienl. "Ho ! all ye dybpepties !" That i&jiibt what the dyspeptics won't do. If they would hot \ igoroubly they might not noud any medicine. An attorney (says. Jigles) <;an do no business in the township till a second practitioner establibhes himself. It lequheb two doetois at least to bet on foot a good outbreak of nieables. And, I .suppohc, it must be due to bonic bimilar jiilluence that the uloetrio light did not command any extiaoidinary attention in Melbourne until three lival wooeis eaine upon the btage to win the favor of the not mi willing Melbourne. A not uncommon weakness ib hit oil" in the following anecdote given by a liuuioious wiitci in the slu*()af<ii>nnt : — "At a lecent hale of fiibt-class furniture thcie w.ib, amount other effects, a hand&omr liqueur-stand. An auctioneer, looking over tin 1 articles before the kale with tlie eye of an expert, baid to a ii-ieiid, " That'b woith ii\e pounds, but no doubt some precious fool of a woman will give ten foi it' On going home in the evening he found the litjueur-fctand «n his side table, and lua wife claimed bis congiatnlation-s on her having secured it for £12. He said nothing, but thought u good deal. " Tin; Cki-suick Mr\>; J>isasti:r. — It is gratifying (says the Atgw*) that all the «vi vivoiM continue to piogiess rapidly towards perfect recoveiy. Their * itulity is burpiising, but had not their endurance been far above that of the common, lpt they would never have lived to tell the tale. In 24 houi snot a man ot the five who were lifted out of the fatal bhaft in the last stage of exhaustion i untamed prostrate, while three of the fivs revived sufficiently within ,m hour to recount their rxperiences in avational and graphic manner. It was only a splendid physique and stamina, superior even to that of the aveiage miner, that enabled them to survive the tumble confinement and the foul air ; and once leleased fiom the living gnive, the resources of young and clastic manhood come to their aid with quick ly-ieturning vigor. To one who has listened to their narration, the chief wonder is bhat they were so stiong of iter\ c that icason held her throne through the agonies of that period wlien, clutched fast in the shoot, the water rose inch by inch, thieatening almost certain death. Yet it would appear that all of them kept their reason until the crisis was passed, the pumps were got to woik, and the receding flood gave them hope of life. Where shall I buy my furniture and. — carpets s You cannot do better than purchase from Garlick and Carnwcll, who have now a yorj Urge assoitmrnt of iron bedsteds, varyinp in price from I.Bs (td to to ten pounds, and keep in stork bedding- of all sizes and kinds. Their lirffe factory is completed, and machinery in full sniiiir, enabling them to turn out furniture quicker and cheaper than hitherto. G. & C. have ready a largo variety of drawin and dining-room suites. Special attention i«, paid to bedroom furuituie, suitable to all classes. Great variety of ctrpets, Kidderminster, Dftiskclb, and tapestry from 2s Cd pet yard. Linoulem and oil cloth for halls of Manchester ,iipsdif, ShcQtipgb, calicoes, hollands, towelling, 'Hlannelf, blankets, curtaini, cretonnei," damasL -Mu &q, Book catalogue* icntjpost/ free.,, Radios jand^geptleman about tc'niarry . will 'find our