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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10359, 14 May 1895, Page 8

.OMNIUM GATHEEUM. NEWS AND GOSSIP. A new police station is to be erected at Napier, at a cost of £1000. The planet Venus is now visible in the daytime with the naked eye. A man.named Cress well was sent to gaol for three months- at Christchurch yesterday for drunkenness and for assaulting a constable. About 4-0 men are now working on the cooperative principle at the Mokihinui coal mine j under the new arrangements with the Knights of Labour. .._'-- A box of fruit weighing 561b is charged 6d from Woodville to Napier, and a box of butter 2b sd. Kooti te Rats, Wesleyan Maori missionary at Greytown, died there the other day. He was a Native of the South Island, and was greatly respected. From April 1. 189"-, to March 31 of the present year, 22,635-itono less grain was carried on the New Zealand railways than during ,the year ending March 31, 1594-. There was also a deorease in minerals of 6621 A tons.^and in chsff of 1638 tons. AS St. Kilda (Melbourne) Police-Court lately a man, who alleged that four years ago he was worth £20,000, was sued for 17s 6d dog rates, and, being unable to pay, was sent to gaol for 48 hours. The dog had been, dead some months.

Li Que, the Chinaman charged at the Lyell with wounding with intent to murder another Chinaman named Li Gow, has been committed for trial, at tbe June sitting of the Supremo Court at Hokitika. Bail was refused until such time as the medical witness certified that - the injured man was out of danger. Major Harris, M.H.R. for Franklyn, addressed a largely-attended meeting at Pukekohe on Saturday. He was very favourably received, and was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. As an inducement for a visit from the s.s. Rimutaka the Oamaru'Harbour Board have agreed to reduce the usual charges to about one-half. Mr David Collins, one of the U.S.S. Com-* pany'B chief stewards, and at present relieving on the Manapouri, has been appointed chief steward and secretary of the Wellington Working Men's Club.

The residence of Mr Peter AVilson, of Upper Rattray street, traveller for Speight and Co., was broken into on Friday night. Mr Wilson is away on business, 3nd Mrs Wilson and her daughter are also out of town, so that the house was temporarily shut up, and until Mra Wilson returns it cannot be ascertained whether the ransacking to which the place was subjected yielded the housebreakers any imi-or-tant booty. . ** At the .regular meeting of St. Paul's Mutual Improvement Association last night, the president (Rev. J. W. A. Melville) read an excellent essay on Milton's "Paradise Lost," and was accorded a vote of thanks. INTERESTING DISCOVERY. The American Government has instructed c noted analyst to examine and report upon certain mineral springs, which have been recently discovered to have an extraordinary ccrative effect in cases of rheumatism and other complaints. A voluminous report has been already laid before the recent Medical Congress, from which it would appear that most marvellous cures have been undoubtedly effected, and the investigation of the Government analyst is therefore, looked forward to with great interest. Sequah's Cure is composed of the carefully concentrated water of one of these springs, combined with certain botanic extracts and is therefore a natural, safe, and effectual remedy for all kinds of rheumatism, scfatica, lumbago, kidney disease, pains in the back, and dropsy. It also cures indigestion, biliousness, aud constipation. The result of this renedv when used in conjunction with Sequah's Oil, has been so remarkable as to have occasioned 'con siderable public interest.—[Advt.]

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