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New Zealand Mail, Issue 916, 20 September 1889, Page 15

Draughts. —The return draughts match between the Wellington Chess Club and the Chess and Draughts Club, in connection with the Working Men’s Club, came off on Friday, and resulted in another win for the latter Club by 16 wins to 11 and 8 draws. On the winning side, Messrs Smith, Kuchen, Fulton, S. Scott, and Lockhead scored a majority of wins ; and on tho losing side Messrs Mackay, Power, and DaAvson performed the same feat. The set between Messrs Littlejohn (Wellington Chess Club) and Donaldson (Working Men’s Club) resulted in a draw. The result of the return chess match between the same Clubs will be made known in a day or two, there Btill being one game unfinished. Advice to Mothers !—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Miss Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer .immediately. It is perfectly barmleso and pleasant to taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep, fay relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes ‘as bright as a button,’ It soothes the child, it sofbtms the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes, Mrs WinsloAv’a Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everyAvhere at Is l£d per bottle. The Invalide Russe states that among the conscripts drawn in the year ISBS for service in the celebrated Preobrajensky regiment was a young soldier whose height was 7ft. He, was a native of the province of Radom,, in Poland. Since the famous drum* major of Peter the Great, the Preobrajensky regiment, although notorious for tall men, has not possessed a soldier as tall as this young giant,