OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10420, 24 July 1895, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP,

! Mrs Mary L. Carlyle Aitken, Thomas Csrlyle's niece, died in London on June 2. Siemens's agent in Auckland has procured from the. mayor of New Plymouth a ton and a-half. cf the best black iron beach sand for the purpose of forwarding to London for further experiment, i The annual report of the Boys' Institute in Wellington shows that the establishment is still doing very good work. The roll of membership numbers 183. The Governor has been elected patrou, and Sir James Prendergast presidents The United States Ambassador is to lay the foundation stone of a church at Gainsborough in the autumn. The church will be a memorial to John Robinson, one cf the founders of the English Independents, who was born in 1575 and died in 1625. - ',

Of the three foreigners on whom the Prussian Order of Merit is bestowc-d this yesx, Herbert Spencer is the chief. All sorts of honours hsve been accumulating about him during the last few years, and the sale of bis books has become very large and constant. It is recalled with iuterest that only a few years ago he was so discouraged by the apathy of the wublic, and co impoverished as well, that but for John Stuart Mill lending him money he woald have abandoned his whole great system of sociology. INTERESTING DISCOVERY. The American Government has' instructed a noted analyst to examine and report upon certain mineral springs, which have beeu recently discovered to have an extraordinary curative effect in cages of rheumatism and other complaints. A voluminous report has bsen 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 fs, 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 nataral, safe, and effectual remedy for all kinds of rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, kidney disease, pains in the back, aad dropsy. . It also cures indigestion, biliousness, and constipation. The result-of this renedy, when used in conduction with Sequah's Oil, has been so remarkable ss to have occasioned con siderable pnblic interest.—[Advt.]