By The Way.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 11, Issue 821, 2 November 1888, Page 6

By The Way.

Snow. Lambs dying. But glass rising. Grand cricketing climate. Eire Brigade thawing oat for the competition season. Two Synods sitting in Dunedin. The Presbyterians propose to issue an anti* dote to the Reign of Grace. Our volunteers have got through the regulation allowance of powder with satisfactory results. No one was killed. c Traveller,' the author of the late guide to Southland, will travel to Kiversdale incog, in future, if indeed he ever ventures that way again. Bank rates raisad for fixed deposits. Nearly all the Glenham cattle offered at auction on Wednesday were sold. Drought and intense heat in inland Australia, Worse than our dose <of hail and snow. Second elevens of Gore and Mataura try conclusions to-morrow-One tenderer for a contract under the Waimumu Road Board was LSO ' below the estimate of the engineer, who ! said that'it would take LIOO to satis* factorily complete the job. The lion and the lamb lying down together. A young angler at Waikaia caught a big eel the other day and found a handsome trout inside. Sonto of the prizes to be given at the fishing competition on the 9th of this month are to be seen at Messrs Tapper and Co's office in Gore. The president's prize— a rod, reel and line— is one well worth winning. Entries close on Tuesday next. The U.S. Congress has passed an Act shutting out Chinese laborers, eve^ to refusing them permission to pass through the States, W J Ward on printers' devils. Congenial subject seemingly. On dit that the attempt to float a company in Melbourne to acquire all the sawmill properties in Southland has been a failure. The Dunedin Exhibition guarantee fund growing steadily, Sir Fred WM taker has resigned his position as a director of the Bank of New Zealand. The Minister of Landa has received information (hat the wild sheep infected with Sgab, at flsount fatriarchj ]$arl« borough, are being vapidly destroyed. During the last four weeks 550 have been shot, Mr George Holdship, the managing director in New Zealand of the Kauri Timber Qompany, has now completed arrangements for carrying pn the md^s* try on a gigantic scale. When opera? tions are resumed at the mills and the discharged haada taken on. again a great improvement should be manifested throughout the Auckland district. The company have paid over lately about fyaU" a million sterling to the late proprietors of the sawmiljs, It is considered very unlikely tfyat Sir W Jervois will be appointee} tp succeed §ir A Musgraye as Upvernqr of C^ueensjand as rumored, A Blenheim telegram states that the prospectors at Waikakaho, Hart and Gibson, got on Saturday, 37 oz 13 dwt of gold, including a 16 oz nugget. The first young lady w&o olimbed to tb,e claim was presented, wi^ a large nugget. The London Sportsman, commenting ou the winnings of the JJon J White during the past racing season in Australia, says that he deserved sucoess, and that his good luok was due to good, management and straight going. The Sutherland falls Are not entitled to th.c honor of bejng ; cjasge^ ag the highest in the world. 'Several * taller ' ones are known. Private letters received from Mr J 0 Brown, dated Melbourne, October 23, state that he had just returned from Sydney, and was much improved in health, Xh.e, honorable gentleman intends returning to ]£ew Zealand as soon as he is completely restored, Tke applications for Bank of New Zealand new shares on the colonial register are 5000 in excess of the nutnbar to be issued. The total applications are for over 30,000 shares. 4.n frish judge has spoken against the se?erity of the prqyisipns, of the £Jrimeg Act. New South Wales is fast recovering from, hep financial troubles. The colonial Budget is pleasant reading, Afc a meeting of the Dunedin Exhibition Committee on Wednesday it was decided, in view of the warm support accorded, to make it intercolonial. The prospectus was adopted, and it was decided to ask his HJxoellenoy to become a patron. Holloivai/s Ointment and Pills .—-Outwa- d infirmities— Before the discovery of these remedies, many cases o£ sores, ulcers, etc., were pronounced to be hopelessly incurable, because the treatment pursued tended to destroy the strength it was incompetent to preserve, and to exasperate the symptoms it was inadequate to remove. Holloway's fills egert the most wholesome powers over the unhealthy flesh or skin, without debarring the patient from fresh ftir and exercise, and thus the constitutional vigor is husbanded ■while thQ most malignant ulcers, abscesses, and skin diseases are in process of cure. Both Ointment and Pills make the blood richer and purer, instead of permitting it to fall into that poor and watery state so fatal to many laboring under chronio ulcera* tions,