Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2341, 1 February 1893, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

THE WORKING MAN'S MILLENNIUM. It iB said that " Variety is {he spice of life," and that "it adds to its flavour/ The poet (Isaac Watts, or Cowper, we forget which) was not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly ife would be bat a dull monotonous thing were it not for itß pleasing contrasts. In the animal world we have the graceful and Bhy deer, and the bold and ferocious lion, the huge elephant, and diminutive though destructive mouse ; there is the plain, humble-looking thrush, with its rich sodr, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough to know it) are conspicuously absent ; tten there is the monster whale and the tiny shrimp on which it feeds. Whilst in mankind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, for not only are their "Dhysical features," so to speak, different, but they differ intellectually and morally also. In some countries certain acts are considered dishonourable and even criminal, and in others the same acts would be looked upon as ligitimate and onourable In China and India, for instance, we believe, lying is a virtue— we won't say a raie virtue ; while among the Negroes of America chicken-stealing is considered one of the favourite nocturnal pastimes, and perfectly praiseworthy, too— provided they " don't get caught in the act." In this country our tastes differ, and our ambitions carry ns higher. We don't believe there is a Bingle bank-teller in the whole of the country mean enough to If y violent hands on a poor unprotected fowl. As to varying opinions on political matters, they are legion, everybody has an opinion of some sort; some think that Ballance and his party are the willing instruments of the evil one ; others think them the only men capable of ushering in that era of unexampled prosperity termed by some enthusiasts the Working Men's Millennium; others, again, are loud in their praises of the author of the Public Works Policy, whilst others clamour for Sir Harry Atkinson ; l)ut one and all are unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's House of Commons Whisky " the Purest and Best in the Market."

The bkbt Bemkdy fob Indigestion. — Nobton's Camomii-h Fills are confidently Recommended as a Simple Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are subject. Norton's Fills, with justice called the ' Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach," act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient, are mild in their operaM tion, and safe under any circumstances. Sold in bottles at Is lid, 2s 9d, 11s, by all medicine vendors throughout the world. We clip tAe folio-wing important teat* Monial from the " Illawarra'* Mercury' (N.S.VP V, on the 30th March. It needs na comment :— " Mr, John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us that aftei luffering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief by^aaing Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. He says seeing the said Extraci ulvertised in the "Ulawarra Mercury," his intense suffering induced him to obtahi ft bottle of the medicine from Mr. Hosting, chemist, ofthigtown, and that the use ol it gave him great relief at once. <" He state* that between the 10th March instant, wher he obtained the first bottle of the extract »nd on the 19th, the use of that medicine rontinued to afford him relief, to -which h( had been a stranger for four years. ♦ Mr Loveday writes also that he has found th« Eucalypti Extract a cure for rheumatism fct well as gravel. He requests us to pub liah this information through the '• Mercury." ♦ have much pleasure in complying with Mr. Loveday's request, whosj word cannot be doubted, and who can hav< ■o object in view otter than a pure deairr lo benefit «uffprinchiunJU)Jty."--AdYt.