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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 57, 9 March 1886, Page 4

What the Old Turk Looted.— Tbe barbarians who entered Constantinople with the destructive instincts of children, and the art knowledge of ourang-outangs, di i their work too well. All that was beautiful was useless or unholy ; the Asiatic troons were mad with slaughter and ihe lust of destruction, and everything, except the great church and a column or two perished for ever. " Where the Turk's foot is planted, grass never grows again," or civili.aiion either ; and the most precious relics of antiquity perished ab the bidding of men who would have pronounced a Venus by Praxiteles either a useless or an unholy image, and 'have lighted cooking ares above a mosaic a thousand years old and worth their evil lives a million times over. Some few things may have been saved from the wreck. The crypts of St Sophia have never been searched by civilised men, and it is quite possible that the 30 guardians of the treasury showed the inquisitive infidel, whom they would have liked to cut down, only the less filled rooms of the great storehouse, and kept the most valuable articles unpolluted by his gaze. There must be a secret treasure house as well as the more open one, and in it may be things worth seeing— the plunder of Armenia, for instance; but it is more probable that it contains only a treasure in metals and stones, and nothing which the world would value. There has been in the world's history no besom of destruction for all that is noble in man or splendid in art like a Turkish conquest, which effaceß all things save the lowest taxpayer, and makes of him a slave.— Sj>cctator.

The Queen has promised thafc should no unforeseen obstacles interfere she will herself open the Indian and Colonial Exhibition next May. The promoters of the American Exhibition, which was to have been held at Earlscourb at the same time have with commendable tact posLponed their show bill 1887.

Sir John Hall writing from England to an ..uckland settler says: — Speaking generally, I hink the Plate country is a better place for a roung man to get on in than New Zealand. Che land, on an average, is cheaper and better, md it is only half the distance to Europe. Dn the other hand, it is a less pleasant coun- 1 ;ry to live in. The climate is good, but subject to much greater extremes of temperature khan New Zealand. There are not many English or Scotch of the working class. The chief labour is performed by Halgoes and Italians. The language generally spoken is Spanish. Foreigners are generally fairly treated by the Government, if they take care not to interfere in politics. But the Government is as improvident in matters of finance as some New Zealand Governments are, and it is much more dishonest. The English settlers whom I met with did not speak of the country as their home, but looked forward to a return to the mother country when they had mad enough money to live comfortably there. M general conclusion is that if I were a young man having to make money to live on, I wouid go to the Argentine Republic. If I had money enough to live on comfortably, I would go to, or stop in, Npw Zealand. Many thanks for your kind inquiries as to my health, which is considerably improved. ' shall be heartily glad to be in New Zealand again, which I hope will be next year. I am tired of England." A doukey at Hagen, Prussi •>, having become short sighted, has been furnished with a pair of eyeglnsses. Triplets seem to ba becoming rather fashionable in the Old Country just now. The wife of a guard named Ax. en, employed on the South Western Bailway, gave birth on December 23rd to three remarkably fine healthy children — two boys and a girl. Dr. Michael Whitemarsh, who attended her, has written to the Queen to ask for the usual bounty. By an Edinburgh paper of December 19th we learn that no less than three strings of triplets had been recorded in that city in one week, while the Daily Telegraph chroniclea four others, all arriving about the same time. Whether these Christmas boxes were hailed with delight or otherwise by their j parents the newspapers do not say. Each of them, however, was entitled to receive the Queen's Bounty of £1 per head. A story is told of a provincial theatre in Ireland where Macready waa personating Virginius. In preparing for the scene in which the body of Dentatus is brought on the stage, the manager called to the Irish attendant — his property-man — for the bier. Pat responded to the call at once, and soon returned with a foaming pot of ale, but was received with a string of anathemas for his stupidity. " The bier, you blockhead 1" thundered the manager. " And sure isn't it here ?" exclaimed Pat, presenting the highly polished quart measure. " Not that, you stupid fellow I I mean the barrow for Dentatus." " Then why don't you call things by their right name ?" said Pat. '* Who would imagine for a moment you meant the barrow when you called for beer ?" . According vto the Wairarapa paper, Mr Dixon, of Masterton, made a profit last year of £35 from about 20 hives of bees. A greater profit could be made if he devoted more time to the industry, but he only attends to it when his day's work is over or before it has begun. As an illustration of tbe keen competition in business, the Liverpool Journal of Commerce says that a firm of millers, doing an extensive business, opened in Germany lately several mills of various descriptions availing themselves of local and other advant iges, such as water and wind, while in certain cases steam power was brought into requisition. The firm is enabled, although the whole of the wheat is purchased to arrive on the Liverpool and -.London markets, to give instructions that vessels arriving with cargoes of grain at the British outpostß shall go to die Continent, where the raw material is ground and the fluur shipped to England, thus underselling English millers. We are assured that uot a pound is sent elsewhere, the firm employing seventpen steamers to meet the exigencies of its trade. The cause of this is that labor is cheaper, the men working longer hours, and in many cases even on Sundays without extra pay. The trial of the men charged with the attempted robbery of the Commercial Bank at Collingwood was concluded on Monday last. The jury deliberated for an hour and a half, then found Alfred 'Beale and James Murray guilty of aft-emptied robbery. The three other prisoners — Murphy, Joyce, and Bowers were acquitted. A young lad named Hopkins pleaded guilty. The Chief Justice said though the prisoners had not actually killed Mrs Eavenscroft, the landlady of the Bank, who was shot during the scuffle, they were morally guilty of her death. He sentenced Beale to eight years' hard labor, the first year in irons, and the first fortnight of every succeeding third month during the first and second year to be in solitary confinement. Murray was sentenced to six years hard labor, the first cix months in irons and the first fortnight of every succeeding third month of the firs. and. second years, amd |he first fortnight of the fourth year and of every succeeding third month solitary confinement. Hopkins received the same sertte^c^e "as Murray, except that on accourit,V_ ! hiß years no part of the sentence will be in irons. Sir William Fox at Mrs Dudley Ward's meeting last week, in Wellington, made use of the following remarks: — "It would," he said, " be impossible to find anything which stand for so much loss to soul, body, and estate, for so much discomfort, and everything disagreeable as the publichouse. Even if we accept the best case that can be made for it in principle, the fact remains that it is a huge nuisance and a misery. It is nofc only the quiet, religious family or the respectable householder that regards the public-house as one of the enemies of his peace ; it is almost everybody except the publican, and his landlord. It is the wife and children who see the week's wages spent there. It is the neighbourhood disturbed by nightly brawls. It is the employer who finds his hands demoralised by it. It is the honest tradesman, who sees the money which ought to go to his counter go to the bar. There is not a vice or a disease, or a disorder, nor a calamity, that has not its frequent rise in the publiuhouse. It degrades, it ruins, ifc brutalises, a large portion of the British people. Drinking baffles us, confounds us, shames us, and mocks us at every point. It outwits alike the teacher, the man of business, the patriot, the legislator. Every other institution flounders in hopeless difficulties ; the publichouse holds its triumphant course." August Flowers. — The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than seventy five per cent, of the people are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects : such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Heart-burn, Waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after easing, low spirits, &c. Go to your Druggist and get a bottle of August Flower. This valuable | medicine cured thousands and thousands of sufferers and is known in all civilized countries. Two doses will relieve you. It costs only 3s 6d a bottle. Sample bottles 6d. Eough on Corns. " — Ask for Wells " Rough on Corns. " Quick relief complete permanent cure. Corns, warts bunions, Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents Christchurch. The Bad and Worthless are never zmitatcd or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word " Hop" or " Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is and especially those with t.^yord"Hop" or" Hops" in their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with d cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitations t> or counterfeits.