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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 3

A Pact WoethKnowing.—Are you suffering with consumption, coughs, severe colds settled on the breast, pneumonia, or any disease ol the throat and longs? If so, go to your druggist and get a bottle ol Boschee's German syrup. The people are going wild over its success, and druggists'all over our country are writing us of its wonderful cures among their customers. It has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simply became it is of so much value in all" aTections of this kind. Chronic cases quickly yield o it. . Druggists recommend it, and physicians piescribe it- If you wish to try its superior virtue, get a sample bottle for 6d. Large size bottles 3s 6d. Three doses will relieve any case. Try it. Eor bedroom furniture, yoa cannot do better than purchase from the Jity Hall Arcade. Immense variety—common, strong, and cheap, fa well as high-class. Iron bedsteads and bedding all sizes, ready for delivery. Sitting, dining, and drawing-room furniture to suit every class of customer. All kinds of Manchester goods, such as sheetings, quilts, calicoes, curtains, blinds, and cretonnes. Blankets both colonial and Erlglish. Discount of 5 per cent, allowed to cash buyers. Garlick and CrartwelL City Hall Arcade, Queen-street, Aucklandi What is gas coke ? Gas coke is nearly all carbon, and carbon properly burned will give out, in round numbers, 14,000 units of heat per pound, or very nearly as much as the best English steam coals. Indeed,'coal only surpasses it because of the small quantity of hydrogen which it contains uncomblned with oxygen. It is often urged that coke cannot be as good as,coal Because it has lost all the heat-producing power equivalent to that of the gas driven off. It is quite true that the coke resulting from one ton of coal does not possess the same calorific value as the coal from which it was made.:'. -But-it must be borne in mind that we are comparing coke with coal weioht for -Thus, lOOlbs. of coal produces 661bs. of coke: so that some SOcwt. of coal is required to produce one ton of coke, and \he . difference satisfactorily allows for the neat .producing power of the gas driven off. • >-'y Boys' Bicycles, £7. The best, largest and tuo.it complete stock of bioyolea and flttings in tho .colony, Including the Eudge, which is the lightest •trongest, and fastest, in the world.—Service an' Fitton, Grey-street, Auckland. ':-,: ■.■■_■- Call oa young" Chambers," at 70, Queen. street, concerning sewing machines.—r*abllo Opinion