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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 28, Issue 1431, 3 April 1897, Page 3

There have hceuon \ - iewinthesh6p"6f Mr S. J. Kvans during the past tew days three oil-paintuigs uf New Zealand sceiifr}'which are well worthy of inspection. The artist is Mr Henry Williamson, ni Dunedin, and the views depicted are "The Head of Lake Wakatipu," " Mount Wick; . Poseidon River," mid " Du«ky Sound." All these scene* are familiar to Kew Zealand tourists and the artist hits seized the salient points in the landscape and painted them with undoubted skill. Mr Williamson's work is considerably above the average of Ihe ordinary colonial artists and as he does not put a phenomenally high price on. his productions he should have no difficulty in disposing of them. TnE friends of Mr J. J. Ramsay, who has taken a very prominent part iu public affairs in this district for a number of years, intend to entertain him at a social, not a banquet as originally proposed, in Naseby prior to his leaving the district. Fuller reference is made to the matter in our Fanners' Club report.

The injurious effects on sheep of barley grass seeds were exemplified at lh<s Belfast Refrigerating Works last week, when the carcasses of cevcral lambs had to be rejected owing to the seeds having worked their way through the skin and being embedded half to three-quarters of an inch in the flirsh, principally about the shoulders, briskets, and inside of the thighs. The pelts were, of course, ruined, and presented the appearance of having been riddled with shot;

As the outcome of the recent mission held in the Presbyterian Church u branch of the Christian Kodeavonr Society was formed. Usually these societies, are formed in connection with some particular church, but it lias been decided that the Naseby branrh should be unscctanan. Members of both the leading churches have joined in movement. The members are divided into acting, associate, and honorary. , The various committees arc as follows. Lookout committee, prayer-meeting committee, Ilible study committee, and the social committee. As every active member has to work on one of these committees wc shall not enumerate their names, sutJic* .it to say the society has a strong membership, *od from the name* of the members wc think »t has come to stay. Hollow-ay's Pills and Ointment. —Rhen " matism and Gout.—-These purifying and soothing remedies deserve the earnest attention of ali persons liable to gout, sciatica, «.r other painful affections ortbemuocleii.nprro., or joints. The Ointment should be applied after the affected parts hate been jKiiicaUy fomented with warm water when the ointment should be diligently rubbed upon tie adiacent .skin, unless the friction causes pain. Hol'.oway's Pill* should lw simultaneously taken to diminish pain, reduce inflammation, and j.u'.fy the blood. This treatment abates the violence, and lessens the frequency of gout. rbeiiHiai.Vm. and all sp*smodic dwc«»e« which spring from hereditary predisposition, or from any accidental weakness or constitution. The Oint-ncnt checks . »>«> maladv. while the Pills restore Thai power;