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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 205, 29 August 1868, Page 2

g ■ '" Holloway's Pilh.— The Great Necessity. — When the blood hag been impregnated with impurities or been impoverished by bad digestion, excess, or other causes, an immediate antidote is presented in tbese purifying Pills. Unless this restorative be resorted to, ths health will soon break down and the spirits flag. Holloway's Pills thoroughly purify the blood, completely cleanse the lungs, reinvigorate debilitated or vitiated nervous action, strengthen the muscles, and clear the brain. These excellent Pills are particularly recommended to all persons whose occupations are sedentary and conducted in close rooms. The most nervous dyspeptic aud most desponding hypochondriac will derive advantage from taking a course of this excellent medicine, without experiencing any weakening, irritating, or any other disagreeable effects. 1844 The Westland Observer, August 27, states that a determined effort is about to be made by the Corporation to clear a channel through the bar. Fifty men with long-handled shovels are called for, to meet this morning, at Revell-sireet steps, where they win be engaged in order to commence operations on the sand-bar. Captain Heymet, of ihe schooner Kate Grant, which has just arrived at Auckland, from the Society Islands, states that the missionary located at Rorotonga is teaching the natives there to uee various kinds of warlike weapons, and drilling them as soldiers, The Auckland Weekly Herald says that a baker conducting business in QueenBtreet, was on Monday last, served with a clever trick by a respectably dressed female. It appears she went into his ehop and ?sked for a bottle of gingerbeer and a penny cake, giving in payment a pound note. The baker was -in the act of handing the lady the change (19s. lOd.) when a lad— probably a friend of hers — rushed hurriedly into the shop, and asked for a loaf of bread. The baker, without waiting to take up the pound note, ran into the bakehouse for a loaf, and on returning, to his great surprise ahd mortification, found that his lady visitor had disappeared; the change and the pound note jutd ftlso vanished.