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New Zealand Mail, Issue 421, 6 March 1880, Page 22

In consequence of the poisoning of four men in Melbourne by beer from an unclean bottle, the brewers, as well as the Public, took alarm, and at the invitation of the Brewers’ Club, Messrs. Blackett, Johnson, jSTewbery, and Mclvor, chemists, agreed to consult together, with the view of devising the most effectual means of cleansing bottles preparatory to their being used by brewers. The four gentlemen decided on making the following recommendations to the brewers: That the bottles should be washed with wire brushes driven by steam ; that the bottles should be washed with a weak solution of muriatic acid and warm water , and that all black and opaque bottles—that is to say, bottles whose substance is such that no one can tell by visual observation whether or not they are clean—should be rejected. The chemists say that the muriatic acid is quite harmless when used as they to the Adelaide Observer the farmers of South Australia are coming forward nobly with their contributions towards the Irish Famine Relict Fund. The secre tarv who has recently been on a tour in the agricultural districts, has received promises of no less than 2000 bags of wheat This will be a most timely and acceptable gift. Let it be hoped that the example of those who have given will stimulate others to do likewise. , _ “By taking one of Grimault & Co. s Guar ana Powders and remaining quiet when £ h £Jginning of monitory symptoms of sick headache by b g 8 nain I have carried off the attack ; and, with the first box.’absolutely put it off for. which had never occurred tn my life Deiore;. u Wood, Montreal.” . We extract from the Tribune Medicate dc Paris the following observation:-” our Dr Dusart, was called in haste to Mr. hege . * laboring under a dreadful attack of asthma, ha resisted all treatments thus far resorted t°. Dr Dusart thinks to prescribe Grimault & Co. s Indian Cigarettes; no sooner had the patient inhaled th smoke of the same than suffocation disappeared Mr. L. does no longer fear the return of such an attack, knowing how he can be relieved of it from ts first symptoms.”