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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 859, 9 August 1879, Page 2

The New York Herald thus bitterly contrasts the sons of Queen Victoria with the son of the Empress Eugenie, the unfortunate Priuce Imperial:— "They dine here. Tbey wine there. TJiey hoM a levee today and lay a corner-stone to-morrow. This gracious Highness is the ornament bf a garden party ; that other is the cynosure at a flower show. So much for the sons of the Queen. Now turn to look at the stranger Prince. What do you see£ A dead young face that stavesjto the sky from a Zulu cornfield. A body stripped and deserted, gashed with eighteen wounds the least a death, and every one in front. A corse born upon crossed lances, fit bier for as brave a soldier as ever faced death." The London Medical Record says : — "lt has long been noted in this country that in those districts where the use of oatmeal (in place of wheaten flour) prevails, we find children and adults with the best developed teeth and jaws : and so well recognized is the influence of oatmeal diet upon the teeth, that many practitioners order its use as an article of daily diet for children, in cases where the dentition seems likely to be either retarded or imperfect. " A billygoat, under the .provocation received from a "Shanghai," attacked a boy named James Lees, at Waimangaroa, and, befoi'e he could be beaten off, tore the boy's clothing aud fractured his leg. The Otago exhibits for the Sydney j Exhibition number 120. In variety and value they are stated to exceed those from the whole of the colony. . Hollo way's Ointment and Pills. — An iufallible remedy for bad Legs aud all kinds of Wounds. — The surprising sale of these invaluable medicines in every part of the civilised world is the most convincing proof of their efficacy. 1 They speedily cure bad legs, old wounds, scrofula, and diseases of the skin. Thousands of persons suffering from these dreadful maladies have been cured by them after every other means had failed ; and it is a fact beyond all doubt that there is no case however obstinate or long standing, but may be quickly relieved and ultimately cured by these wonderful medicines. Their united action is irresistible ; more need not be said in praise of those celebrated Pills. Let those who doubt their excellence give them a trial,