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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3007, 14 February 1881, Page 3

Tho challenge thrown out to tho medical profession of Melbourne by Mr Milner Stephens, the well-known "healer," has been accepted by Mr Gray, surgeon, who writes ; " I will take Mr Stephens to the Victorian Eyo and Ear Hospital. I will submit to him a case of cataract which I cannot euro without the knife, and another caso which I cannot cure with or without the knife. I will take with me medical men in whom the community will trust to verify my diagnosis of these diseases. I will request tho honor of the attendance of Bishop or Dean of Melbourne and tho respected Mayor of our city ; and I promiso that Mr Stephens shall have the fullest opportunity of exercising and proving his boasted powers of healing. The great genius of all good, in dispensing His mercies, does not discriminate between persons or diseases. If he can cure these two cases, I will burn my diploma, hoist the ' red rag,'

and dispense ' magnetised water' to .the end of my existence." _ There is a prospect of the duties which are shutting New Zealand produce out of the Victorian markets being done away with altosrether, or at least of their being greatly modified. Our beer and cereal produce will be placed against the wines, etc, of Victoria, and probably a system of reciprocity introduced in regard to their importation into either colony. A telegram _in another column conveys the information that the Hon. Mr Dick while in Victoria made overtures for negotiations on this subject between the Governments of the two colonies, to which Mr Graham Berry, the premier of the sister colony, expressed himself as favorable.