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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9322, 27 March 1889, Page 6

Matters mining arc in a very unsatisfactory state about Master The diamond drill hired by the Coal Prospecting Association is out of repair, and in consequence boring operations are suspended. In fact, no sooner was one break in the gear made good when another occurred, and in the absence of any indications of payable coal, the directors have decided to pay oil' the men and wind lip the company. It is a matter of regret that a very strong company was not formed, with capital and machinery to thoroughly prospect the valley and mountain, as no doubt exists in the minds of old coal miners that immense coal beds will be discovered some day in the vicinity of Masterton. The gold prospecting parties have returned from the ranges and gorges, but the. result of their labours has not been over satisfactory. The colour has been found, but in such small quantities that they do not consider it will warrant their going to any expense or time in further prospecting.— Correspondent,]

Notwithstanding Messrs. Pen ton and Co.'s retail premises in Queen-street are closed for a few days for valuing and marking down prices, the manufacturing branch is still carried on as usual.—[Advt.] The New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company (Limited) has now entered on the retail butchery business. See business advertisement in this paper with list of current prices. How little is ifc known or remembered that the fluid poured from the salivary elands, and. which wo call saliva, liko the nastric juices of the stomach, enacts its part systematically in the.solution or absorption of sonio of tin) food we take into the body; and just as there is a certain species of dyspepsia arising from a deficiency in quantity, or inferiority in quality, of this salival supply, so is there another, when; there is a failure on tl'ie part of the stomach to secrete the normal quality or quantity of (jsiatric juice. In either event, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is an admirable ailjumi". a