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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 192, 15 July 1873, Page 3

_ Six companies at the Thames have divided £852 453 anion.'st them since they started, besides having £l(),0i)0 in hand. Prevention is better than cure, and if the practice followed by some of the Queensland Magistrates were adopted here there would be no need for an inebriates' retreat. At Dalby, in Queensland, the Bench was lately prayed that a prohibition might he issued against one William Ross, on the grounds that he was, by the immoderate use of intoxicating liquors, wasting his strength and ruining his health. The request was granted, and a prohibition was issued to all publicans, storekeepers, and persons selling spirituous liquors, forbidding them to supply any such to Boss for the space of twelve months, under certain penalties. This is indeed striking at the root of the evil, and the result of the cours■; taken will prove far more effective in putting a stop to drunkenness, than the philanthropic efforts of private individuals. Hallway's Ointment and Pith. - Rheumatism, Neuralgia.—lt is sometimes difficult to decide which of these diseases is afflicting the sufferer but such uncertainty will be immaterial if Holloway's remedies be used. They alleviate and cure all muscular and nervous pains. In here litary rheumatism, after bathing the affected parts with warm salt water, Hollo way's Ointment should be well rubbed upon the spot, that it may penetrate and exert its soothing and regulating properties on the deeper vessels and nerves which, being unduly excited, cause both pain and swelling. Holloway's treatment has the merit of removing the disease without debilitating the constitution, which was the inevitable result of the bleeding, mercury, and colchicum practice -formerly 'adopted in these complaints,