NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1945, 23 December 1884, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

« ELLINGTOX, Sunday. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaikoui a, u'ifch the first English mail under the new contract, left the harbour for London at 6 o'clock this afternoon.

Monday. At the inquest on Lovelace, who was killed on the steamer Hewed, a verdict of manslaughter was returned against William Waller, the elref officer of the steamer. The torpedo launch for Auckland will shoitly be towed up to that port. The \oting papers for the Insurance Board election will be despatched from the head office to-morrow, and may be returned so soo 1 as the voter chooses to do so. The election, therefore, virtually begins at once, but the final date for receipt of the voting papers is the 7th of January, and they must be forwarded from all parts of the colony in time to reach Wellington by 10 o'clock on the morning of that day.

CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. The "uaiantce of expenses of obtaining Wost Coast lailvwijs consessiona and disposing of the same to a sj'ndicate or company m England is being largely and mfluuntially signed. The amount for which each guarantor is responsible is limited to £25.

Monday. Mr S. Duncan, one of the earliest settleis in Canteibury, and for a 3ong time Crown Piosecutor, died t\vs morning.

Enjoy Life. AVhal a truly beautiful world we live in ! We can desire no better when in good health ; but; how often do the majoiity of people feel like giving it up diaheiiitcned, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, Green's August Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are the dnect cause of seventy-five per cent, of such maladies as Billiou&ne&s, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Htart, and other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful effect. Sold by all Druggists at 3s. 6d. per bottle. Sample bottles, 6d. Try it.

Thk making of two of the finest streets of Paris cost upwards of three million pounds sterling. It is notified that all applications for the awards of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia, for meritorious service in saving life, performed in New Zealand, must be made through the Government. Si'Eakink of the recent Social .Science Congress the London Times says : — " After twenty-seven years of existence as association which has for its object to ascertain the law which governs men's habits as members of a community should surely be able to render us some more effective assistance in this momentous matter. The problems which society presents for solution will hardly wait until social science has organised itself. Mr Cowen, in his address on Social Progress just delivered to the Mechanics' Institute at Blaydon, has told us in his own striking language what some of these problems are. Speaking of the outcasts of society, the refuse of the social mill, he says in words which we commend to the Social Science Congress, " Society, ashamed and despairing, sweeps them like refuse into dismal receptacles, where, seething in their wretchedness, they constitute at once our weakness and reproach. How to sweeten those receptacles and heip their forlorn occupants to help themselves ia the problem of the hour. If society does not settle it, it will in time settle society." Tenders aro invited for harvesting oats at Okoroiri. MrT, S. Huckland will sell at Ohaupo, 'tlis day, 400 head store cattle, fat cattle, fat 'and store sh«*ep. Holders of slaughter-house enses in tbc J'iiko County are directed to an advertise* nient in another column. The first meeting: of the creditors of H Tanner will be held at the deputy assignee's office, Ihe Waikato Times Buildings Hamilton on the SHh inst , at 11 a m. AYe direct special attention to the advertisement of Mr N. G. Lennox, Hamilton, whose show of Christmas cards and presents is exceptionally good and worth inspection. Tbo shop will be closed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the holidays. A Scolding Woman-.— The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law, are now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women scold onfy when t!u«y are ill. Instead of blaming them T?e should prescribe Hop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will be quieted and aceibity of word and thought will give place to amiability and affection. Healthy woman do not scold or fret.