Miscellaneous.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1881, 1 July 1892, Page 6

Miscellaneous.

The Trad* He cine uii.ltrßt<in>U that th*re is likely to lie some exctement in this colon\ over the righu of the patentee* «»f UirlKjl wire bef.re 'he now fast approaching «?*j>iry of these pitent.s It appears that tiie original patents termiii„u ;u August next, an>l ennsi'lemble shipment* of nnlsi 'e makes are on their »*v to Nc■* Zealand, c->n<ii:ite I to importers who weie ignorant of the fact that ihe colonial patents do m-t expire till February, 1893. Now it happens 'hat a S'il>s:atitial fighting fund exUO in Eugland for the defence of th<" patent rights of this invention, formed by arrangement l.etween the patentees and licensees which, if not needed, will revert to the patentees. The fund is, we understand, in the hands of a certain gentieman of the legal profession, whose representatives out here are on the look-out to put it to the use for which it was •uhacribed, and every shipment of barl ed wire other than of this patent that is landed in New Zealand before February, 1H9.1 will give an opportunity for a prosecution for infringement of patent rights. We wonder how it is (remarki the Brnre Herald) that when a criminal in good society is convicted and sentenced at Home he or she rarely undergoes the hardships of imprisonment in the same way meaner offenders would have to suffer. The cases of Mrs Osborne and Mrs Montague arc in point. With regard to another aristocratic convict, Knglish papers state that Captain Vernev's twelve months woald expire in May, and that he " has been the whole of the tirr.e in the infirm try at Pcntonville Prison, as, owing to an ir.firmity in one of his legs he was unable to fulfil any task of labour. During hia incarceration he has been visited by his friends in accordance with the regulations, and on each occasion was supplied with the necessary requirements for his favonrite pastime—drawing and painting." If he had been an ordinary offender he would, despite his leg, have doul.tle.ss been found •ome other employment than indulgence in his favourite pastime. A sentence passed as his has been is a mockery of the law.

The Xne Zealand Herald sav slnfluenza is rife just now. It is telling not only on the attendance in public schools and other educational e<-tab lishments, but among the adult portion of the community. The police force are suffering owing to their duties. Two or three detectives are off duty, and Inspector Rroham, though he is still about, has also got a severe attack." The other day a man, faring the rame of Kugene Kolns, but who had a better and more familiar alia*, namely, Andrew Young, was brought up at the Auckland Police Court on a charge of stealing from the British Hotel a clock, and, from another hotel, a bible. When he was asked w hat he had to say for himself, he could only reply that he was endeavoring to make preparation for time and for eternity. The justices on the bench said that they would have to trench a litMe upon his time by giving him four months' imprisonment in Mount Eden Gaol, and he was quite at liberty to make use of that period by preparing for the other department.

The following rep rt of the speech made bv Sir W. Jervois in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr Perceval it the Colonial Institute in London is given by the coriespondent of the New Zealand Herald Sir W. jervois said he entiiely agreed with Mr Perceval that those who wished to grasp tbe meaning of the British Empire must leave these isles and see the Australian colonies and New Zealand. He concurred in thp remarks made respecting the unwise policy now hein,' pursued in New Zealand with to Bri'ish capital. He believed that the Labour party was as capable as any other in Parliament, but thooglit that probably at the start they had not grasped the enormous business they had entered on. or the issues they ueie called upon to decide. They would find, he feared, in time, that they had been led by the nose by demagogues." Taranaki states that the Maoris have a quaint style of reasoning in matters in which their interests are concerned, and an instance of this habit is worth repetition. Recently a dog tax collector waited on the Maoris at Motu's pah at Pnniho, and made enquiries about certain do*s. He was referred to the prophet Motu, who is well op in Scriptural knowledge. Motu having ascertained the collector's mission, then asked uho Eve orders to collect the money, and what was to done with it. The collector said that the local government (not the big (Jovernnient) ordered the collection, and that the fees, like the tollgate fees, would be spent on the roads. M>>tn thought for a few minutes, and then ventured the remark that be considered the system was wrong, aud he proceeded tc prove his contention from a Scriptural standpoint. The Jtua, he said, seut the horse, the cow, and the sheep, anil he also sent the Luri (the dog) to look after these animals. If tbe Atita thought that the biri was to b- taxed he would not have sent him here to look after the horse, the cow, and the sheep. This is Motu's view of the dog tax.

It's always the small matters that cause the tronble. Mrs O'Leary's cow kicked over the kerosene lamp and burned down Chicago ; a little •tream of water half an inch wide washed away the dim at Conemaugh, and lost thousands of lives at the Johnstown disaster. So it is with disease ; it begios in a small way and gradually extends its ramifications until it is complete master of the situation, and then it is, probably. too late to do any good. The way to allay disease is to attack it in its initial stages. When sickness is coming on it always gives ample warning. The symptoms are •light, perhaps, hut none the less important. Approaching disease always casts its shadows before. Different people get different symptoms—one gels • headache, another neuralgia, a third lassitude, a fourth loss of appetite and so on. Any constitutional disturbance must tell jou that the processes of life are not properly progressing, that some part of the human machinery is disorganised, and if you neglect this irregularity chronic disease will positively result. Hundreds of people are hurried into nntimely graves through neglect of the first symptoms. We want you to know that Clements Tonic is the article that will arrest the progress of di- eise of all kinds if taken at the onset. Clements Tomc is an article that has never yet and never will fail to regulate all the processes of ■nimal life; it aids perspiration and respiration, secretion, digestion, assimilation, elimination, and excretion ; it stimulates the liver, and cleanses the congested hepatic glands and ducts and renal passages of all morbid and impute accumulations. Clements Tonic invigorates the stomach and regulates the bowels, and braces up the whole corporeal structure. It p.events the relaxation ami depression so prevalent in the hot weather, enriches the blood, restores all lost nerve power, and gives tone to the system. Clements Tonic will do all this, and more—it will save life ; anil the evidence which we have received from its influential patrons and the eukigistic press notices are sufficient to prove the above statements even to the most spectical. For instance, J. T. (Jrav, Ksq., Swan Bay, N.S.W., writes : I have great pleasure in informing yon that I have derived great l>enefit from using CLEMENTS Tonic. Having lately been quite prostrated by mental strain ami worry, 1 was recommended CikmEnts Tonic. The first bottle relieved me, and I felt like anothtr body altogether ; and I now recommend it to all my friends. And Mrs S. Bond, Harden, Murrumbnrrah. VS. W , writes : I beg to say that I hive suffered terribly from neuralgia, and tried every remedy known, until I procared Clements Tonic, and after two doses the effect was marvellous. I have taken altogether six small bottles. aDd since then have not had the slightest return of the agonv which I suffered for years. I honestly b-_lie»e Clements Tonic to l>e the most geniuue medicine I ever u-ed. I shall recommend it to all my fri-nds afflicted as I was. Laboratories. Sydney, N.S.W. j. Hatch A Co. are the wholesale and retail agents forCLKMKNTS TONIC in the Southland district ; get it from them.

The Best Remki>i- for I soiokstion.—Norton'? Camomile Pii.l« are confidently Recommended to • Simple Remedy tor Indigestion, which is the .muse of nearly all the t<> which wc are subject. Norton's I'm.is, with justice called thi "Naturr 1 Strenctl.en«r of the Hinnan Stomach. act a» a powerful toui<* and aperient, ?rt mild ia their operation, and safe tinder any circnm •tancea. Sold in bottle*, at Is, I J,d. "Js 9il, l»y allMedicine Vendors tli H'orld.