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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6260, 5 July 1890, Page 4

On payment of a fee of 4d, the sender can at time of posting receive a certificate of posting. The certificate imposes no liability on the department, and is merely intended as evidence ofposting. For a parcel not exceeding 21b. in weight, Is 6d ; for every additional pound or fraction 1 thereof, 9d extra. Postage must be fnlly prepaid by means of postage stamps affixed to the parcels. Insufficiently-prepaid parcels will not be accepted. Parcels for transmission to the United Kingdom must be posted or delivered at the parcel post office at the port where the steamer takes her final departure at least eight hours before the close of the ordinary letter-mail. The hour for closing parcel-post mail elsewhere will be duly notified by Postmasters. Each parcel should be plainly" directed, the direction should give name and full address of the person for whom the parcel is intended. The words “ Parcel Post ” should be written on the upper left-hand corner, and also the name and address of the sender. No parcel containing dangerous articles, perishable articles, articles likely to injure other parcels, liquids, unless securely packed in proper cases, or any contraband articles or substances will be accepted. Parcels found to contain forbidden articles, and parcels the contents of which have been falsely declared, will be dealt with in accordance with the Customs and other laws and regulations. Tobacco cannot be sent to the United Kingdom by parcel post. A parcel must not contain a letter, neither must it contain another parcel addressed to a person other than the addressee of the first-named parcel. If such an enclosure be discovered, it will be charged with a separate rate of nostage.

HOW PILLS ARE MADE : The custom of taking medicine in the orm of pills dates far back in history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, but Tery useful, _ drugs. To what very vast dimensions pill-taking has grown may be imagined when we say that in England alone about 2,000,000,000 (two thousand million) pills are consumed every year. In early days pills were made slowly by hand, as the demand was comparatively small. To-day they are produced with infinitely greater rapidity by machines especially contrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the j > ■ portions of the various ingredients employed. No form of medication can be better than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occurs the difficulty. Easy as it may seem to make a pill, or a million of them, there are really very few pills that can be honestly commended for popular use. Most of them either undershoot or overshoot the mark. As everybody takes pills of some kind, it may be well to mention what a good, safe, and reliable pill should be. Now, when one feels dull and sleepy, and has more or less pain in the head, sides, and back, he mav be sure his bowels are constipated, and his liver sluggish. To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing like a good cathartic pill. It will act like a charm by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digestive' organs of the accumulated poisonous matter. But the good pill does not gripe and pain Us, neither does it make us sick and miserable for a few hours ora whole day. It acts on the entire glandular system at the same time, else the after-effects of the pill will be worse than the disease itself. The griping caused by such pills is the result of irritating drugs which they contain. Such pills are harmful and should never be used. They sometimes produce hemorrhoids. Without having any particular desire to praise one pill above another, we may, nevertheless, name Mother Seigel’s Pills, manufactured by the well known nouse of A. J. White, Limited, 36 Farringdon Road, London, and now sold by all chemists and medicine vendors, as the only one we know of that , actually possesses every desirable quality. They remove the pressure upon the brain, correct the liver, and cause the bowels to act with ease and regularity. They never gripe or produce the slightest sickness of the stomach, or any other unpleasant feeling or symtom. Neither do they induce further constipation, as nearly all other pills do. As a further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel’s Pills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls, thus rendering them as pleasant to the palate as they are effective in curing disease. If yon have a severe cold and are threatened with a fever, with pains in the bead, back, and limbs, one or two doses will break up the cold and prevent the fever. A coated tongue, with a brackish taste in the mouth is caused by foul matter in the stomach. A dose of Seigel’s Pills will effect a speedy cure. Oftentimes partially decayed food in the stomach and bowels produces sickness, nausea, ' etc. Cleanse the bowels with a dose of these pills and good health will follow. TJnlike many kinds of pills, they do not make you feel worse before you are better. They are, without doubt, the best family physio ever discovered. They remove all obstructions to the natural functions in either sex without any unpleasant effects.

According to a contemporary, “ It,” a remarkable cat, died at Putnam, Connecticut, the other day. The animal had seven legs and two tails, being in reality one cat in front and two cats behind. Her strange deformity enabled her to do many tricks ; she was able to walk at any angle without turning and whenever perpendicular walls were near enough together she could go up them as easily as she could walk on the floor, while it was her favourite sport to climb up a tin pipe to the roof of the bouse. She was buried in a triangular black walnut box, with the simple inscription,’' 1 It,” and many of the villagers attended the burial. A return prepared by Mr Hayter, of Victoria, shows that by comparing the estimated number of Chinese in the various colonies in 1890 with tho number enumerated in 1881, i there has been a decrease of 419 in New Zealand, of 838 in Victoria, and 3538 in Queensland. In New South Wales there has been an increase of 5376, in South Australia of 2500, in Western Australia of 481, and in Tasmania of 156. The estimated Chinese population in Australasia in 1890 was 47,433 as against 43,706 in 1881. Of these 11,290 are in Victoria, 15,581 in New South Wales, 7691 in Queensland, 6660 in South Australia, 626 in Western Australia, 1000 in Tasmaia, and 4585 in New Zealand. I

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