THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1885.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5310, 3 October 1885, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1885.

Lavinia Fogden, for being drunk in a public place, was discharged with a caution. She was also charged with having no lawful or visible means of support, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Hokitika gaol. We have heard a good deal about English butchers buying New Zealand mutton at 6d a pound and retailing it at lOd and Is ; but we see by an English paper that in some instances at anyrate our frozen mutton is retailed at very reasonable prices, as may be gathered from the following advertisement : — " New Zealand Mutton ! Important to housekeepers ! ! .R. Almond, grocer and provision merchant, 109 High street, Watford. R. Almond begs respectfully to inform the inhabitants of Watford and the surrounding district that, having made arrangements to receive consignments of the above meat, he will offer the same at the following prices : — Legs, 7sd per lb ; shoulders. 6£d ; loins, Gjsd to 6d ; other parts, 4£d. Early orders will oblige." Mr Almond is apparently not a regular butcher, but he is clearly a 1 good business man, and a benefactor to : the poor of Watford. Thomas O'Loughlin has received a telegram from F. Woods challenging him to run 200, 300, and 400 yds for £100 aside. It is anticipated that O'Loughlin Avill accept this challenge. ■ The Kapunda Herald says :— We pub lished some weeks ago a statement to the ! effect that a son of Mr Alex. Poole, of this town, had disposed of his share in the Broken Hill Claim, Silverton, for £4,500. It appears that the transaction was not then completed, but we are now able to Btate most positively, on the authority of the gentleman who received the money I for Pool and deposited it in the bank in his name, that he has disposed of his interest in the Broken Hill for £5,800. Mr Pool sold part of his share for a team of bullocks, or he would have had double the amount he has now received. He first had a fourteenth, and then took another fourteenth from a mate who did not care about holding it ; this latter was the part he sold for the bullocks. The part he got the £5,800 for was two-thirds of the fourteenth share, and the other third, we are informed, he has been done out of in some way. The Gibraltar correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company reports that a determined attempt is being made at Tangiers to suppress Press criticism upon the affairs of Morocco. Mr White, the" British Consul, has made himself the instrument of the Moorish Acting-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in informing the principal publisher of newspapers in Tangiers, for communication to the other newspapers, "that any criticism of the Sultan, of his Government functionaries, or of any foreign legation would be sufficient cause for the immediate suppression of the newspaper." The effects of Press criticism in Morocco in the past has been most beneficial. ■ There was a little "contravention" unwittingly committed by one of the commercial delegates at Papete, says an Auckland paper, but it was all amicably explained and settled. The gentleman in question was taking ashore a copy of Barraud's "New Zealand Illustrated," with the object of presenting it to the Commercial Club, when he was pounced upon by an "ofishus ofishul," who impounded the book as contraband cargo. The delegate pluckily determined to stick to his book, however, and the Customs Officer, with delegate and book in his custody, drove off in a buggy in the direction of the prison. However, the delegate persuaded the official to call on the director of the interior before consigning him to a dungeon, and there was little difficulty in convincing the higher functionary that nothing worse than an innocent mistake had been made. This will be apparent when I s^ate that printed books are admitted duty free, and the sole offence consisted in landing the book without a written permit. Mr Russell, ex United States Minister to England, ou his return to America, was subjected to the interviewing process. In the course of an interesting statement; of the political situation in England, he made the following refera^ce to Irish affairs : — " The policy of Gladstone was to give the Irish more than justice demanded. He conceded all that was possible. Why, Irish farmers have vastly more advantages than have Scottish or English farmers. They are beginning to see this. The Irish question will be settled peaceably. They are human as well, as the English. About one-fourth of them are thoroughly loyal to the Government, and a much larger proportion would like to be,

but they are overawed by some of their leaders. These Irish leaders are a peculiar people. They talk for the sake of talking, and do not pay much attention to what they are saying, nor do they stop to consider the effect of their language. I believe Mr Parnell is thoroughly in earnest and sincere in his efforts in behalf of his countrymen. But many of them are not so earnest. Wealthy Irishmen do not seem to have a very warm attachment for their country . They seem to prefer living m London or Paris. Ido iiot see how any other policy can ever be adopted toward Ireland. The natural location of the two 1 countries forbids it. The country that frees Ireland must first conquer England, and then Ireland would be just as poorly .off as her people says he now is." We Sometimes Eat too Much.—Appetite occasionally outruns discretion and the consequence is a fit of indigestion which may lay the foundation of future wretchedness in the shape of dyspepsia. As a means of counteracting the effects of over-eating, and, if used persistently, of completely eradicating the last-named malady, there is none more certain and agreeable than that admirable antidyspeptic and after-dinner cordial, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. — Advt. Goood Words— From Good Authority— We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of. Hostetter's, Vinegar, and all other bitters and patent mcdi ines, bat never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that Hop Bitters have. We can't get enough of tharn. We are out of them half the time. Extract from letter to Hop Bifcters Co., August 22, "78, from Benton Meyers, and Co., wholesale druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see. Good for Babies.— "We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irresfula ity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength."— The Parents. See. — Advt.