WHAT IS THIS DISEASE THAT IS COMING UPON US.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 May 1887, Page 4

WHAT IS THIS DISEASE THAT IS COMING UPON US.

Like a thief at night it steals in upon of ■ unawares. Many persons have paina about the chest and sides, and sometimes in tho back. Thoy ieel dull and sleepy ; the mouth has a bad taste especially in the morning. A sort of sticky fcliine collects about tbfl teeth. The appetite is poor. There is a feeling like a heavy load on the stomach; sometimes a faint all-gone sensation at tho pit of the stomach which food does not satisfy. The eye? are sunken, the hands and feet becomo cold and feel clammy. After a while a cough seta in at first dry, but after a few months it is attended with a greenish coloured expectoration. Tha afflicted one feels tiled all the while, and Bleep does not seem to aflord any rest! After a time he becomes nervous, irritable* and gloomy, and has e\ il forebodings. There is a giddiness, a sort of whirling sens** fcion in the head when rising up suddenly. The bowela become costive ; the skin ia dry and hot at times ; the blood become* thick and stagnant ; the whites of the eyes become tinged with yellow, the urin« ;is scanty and high coloured, depositing I a sediment after standing There is frequently a spitting up of the food, sometimes with a sour taste, and sometimes with ; a sweetish taste ; this is irequently attended with palpitation of the heart ; tho vision becomes impaired with spots before the eyes ; there if a feeling of great proa* tration and weakness. All of these symptoms are in turn present. It is thought that nearly one-third of our population haa this disease in some of its varied forms. It has been found that medical men ha\^ mistaken the nature of this disease. Sony have treated it for a liver complaint, othert for kidney dif*ea«e, etc., but none of tht various kinds of treatment have been atteJ^ ded with success, because the rtmecty should be such as to act harmoniously upon each one of these organs, and upon the stomach as well ; for in Dyspepsia (for thia is really what the disease is) all of theso organs partake of this disease and require a remedy that will act upon all at the sama time. Siegel's Curative Syrup acts like a charm in this class of complaints, giving almost immediate relief. The following letters from chemists of standing in the community whore they live show in what* ' : mation the article ia held. John Archer, Harthill, near Sheffield :— t can confidently recommend it to all wh* may be suffering from liver or stomach complaints, having the testimony of my customers, who have derived great benefit from the Syrup and Pills. The sale is increasing wonderfully. Geo. A. Webb, 141, Yoik-street, Belfast : --I have sold a large quantity, and the patties have testified to its being what you represent it. J. S. Metcalfe, 55, Highgate, Kendal :— I have always great pleasure in recommending the Curative Syrup, for I have never known a case which it has not relieved or cured, and I have sold many grosses. Robt. G. Gould, 27, High-street, Andover: -I have always taken a great interest itt your medicines and I have recommended them as I have found numerous cases of cure from their use. Thomas Chapman, West Auckland :— X find that the trade steadily increases. I sell more of your medicines than any oth^ kind. N. Darroll, Clnn, Salop :— All who buy it are pleased, and recommend it. Jos. Balkwill, A.P.S .Kingsbridgo :— Th© public seem to appreciate their great value. A. Armstead, Market Street, Dalton-ia-Furness :— lt is needless for me to say that your valuable medicines have great sale in this district— greater than any other I know of, giving greAt satisfaction. Kobt. Lame, Melkeham:— l can well recommend the Curative Syrup from having proved its efficacy for indigestion myself. Friockheim, Arbroath, Forfarshire, Sept. 23, 1882. Dear Sir,— Last year I sent you a letter recommending Mother Seigel's Syrup T have very much pleasure in still bearing testimony to the very satisfactory results ot the famed Syrup and Pills. Most patent medicines die out with me; but Mother Seigel has had a steady sale ever sinoe I commenced, and Is still in as great demand as when I first began to sell the medicine. The cures which have come under my notice are chiefly those of liver complaint am! general debility. A certain minister in my neighbourhood Bays it is the only thing which has benefited him and restored him to his normal condition of health after being unable to preach for a considerable length of time. I could mention also a great many other cases, but space would not allow. A near friend of mine, who is very much addicted to costive ness or constipation, finds that Mother Seigel's Pills are the only Pills which suit his complaint. All other pills cause a reaction, which is very annoying. Mother Seigei's Pills do not leave a bad after-effect. I have much pleasure in commending again to suffering humanity Mother Seigel's me<l?« cines, which are no sham. If this letter ia of any service you can publish it. Yours very truly, (Signed) Wm. S. Glass, Chemist. A. J. White, Esq. 15th August, 1888. Dear Sir,—! write to tell you that MrHenry Hillier, of Yatesbury, Wilts, informs me that he suffered from a severe form of indigestion for upwards of four years, anql took no end of doctor's medicine without the slightest benefit, and declares Mother Seigel's Syrup which he got from me hat laved his life. Ycurs truly ; (Sipped) N> Webb, Mr. White. Chomiat Cain*

•and came to the presumed evil tendency of a tax that appears to punish thrift, «,nd therefore discourage it, he asked what is the tendency of the discouragment worth ? May it not be an imperceptible weight ? Could we imagine one person out of ten thousand, or a hundred thousand, who iDecause the tax-gathorer asked him for less than a half per cent, on his wealth, would say, " There is so much discouragement for me to be thrifty and saving that I will squander the other ninety -nine and a half percent." We can fancy that many taxpayers may consider it necessary to save because of the tax, but that the tendency to discourage thrift should find its effect in the tax leading to extravagance is a theory of a microscopically attenuated nature. He was far from saying that the conse•quence may not be to drive capital into a •different direction, and that the tax does not operate mischievously as a burden on industry. These were not points he was discussing, and it was useless to raise them in a House which summarily rejected the proposals for exempting agricultural improvements and machinery. Members might ask why then was he so pursuing the point of the tax nofc tending to di^eoxaiage tliriffc. Our system of taxation dealt with the men of moderate means through the Customs, and ] with those better off through the Property Tax. Now, they proposed to increase the •Customs duties, and they thought the Property Tax should be simultaneously increased. In making a change in the direction of diminishing the exemptions, it would be grossly unfair to refuse to take into consideration the effect of the alterations on the possession of different means. Close attention has been ?iven to many varieties of modification, 'hey desired to avoid raising the tax beyond -a penny to anyone, and to take into account the weight with which any change would fall on the contributor. The conclusion they had come to was to propose that properties worth not exceeding £2,500 should enjoy the same exemption of L5OO as at present, and be subject on the balance to the present tax of thirteensixteenths, but they proposeb that thure should be no allowance on properties exceeding L 2,500 in value, and that the tax on them should be Id. Estimated Revenue for tho Year ISB7 88 With the additions he had asked to the property tax and Customs he estimated the following revenue for the year :—: — Estimated Estimated Actual ISB7-SB. 188G-87. 188(5-87. Customs .. .. £1,100,000 £1,410,000 £1,285,703 Stamps, including post and telegraph .. 613,000 617.500 G01,1C2 Property Tax .. 3^5,000 312,000 310,897 BeerDiity .. 51,000 55,000 53, JM Railways .. .. 1,100,000 1,150,000 992,157 Registration and other fees .. 33,510 36,000 37.034 Marine . . Ui.o'M 13,0 W 13,071 Miscellaneous .. 38 000 4i,0U0 110,232 Totals . . £3,707,t00 £3,637,500 £3,438,842 Depasturing licenses, rents, &c. . £191,.00 £186,320 £192.556 Debentures for increasinpr of Sinking Fund.. 258,184 251,100 251,100 Total revenue . £4,074,92 > £3,882,428

Anticipated Results for the Year. The proposed expenditure being L 4.0 71,304 the anticipatedi*evenueL4, 106, 184, a surplus of L 84,880 was the result. A.% regarded the 1.92,300 deficiency of last year, although he hoped to be able to pay it off this year out of surplus and savings on votes, he did not like to undertake to do so. He proposed asking that it should stand over until after the end of next session. If the year's transactions enabled it to be sooner extinguished, as he hoped might be the case, he should be glad to pay it off.

The Land Revenue and Expenditure. He continued : "I nowcometo the subject which is the most difficult of all the topics with which I have had or shall have to deal. I have already pointed out that the land finance is getting into a condition that makes it necessary to place it in a settled position without delay. The cause is not unsatisfactory, and the House cannot think it so, since it enjoys Parliament's own sanction. We are making efforts to settle people on the soil after ■a systematic plan or plans, of which there is an example in the previous history •of the colony. The importance of doing the work has always been represented. Surveying the last quarter of a century, I can never remember a time at which the necessity -of promoting settlement was not recognised. But all previous efforts in this direction were desultory compared with the organised •enthusiasm, if I may use such an expression, and with the systematic efforts which are now being: made to place the people on the land in large numbers. The present work is not confined to trying to bring settlers out, but its main weight is directed to settling on the land people already in New Zealand, including that very valuable class, the young men born in the colony, who are growing up to the age at which they can take charge of their own future. Money requires to be found for the aid which is being given to settlers. It is of no u?e to •allow deficiencies to accumulate, and to regard them as unexpected, when we deliberately adopt a policy to lead to them. The Government think that for a term of years, until the increase of revenue will permit otherwise, the deficiencies between the land revenue and the land expenditure should be made up by such local borrowings as may be required. The lents arising from the land are consolidated revenues, and out of them it is proposed that the interest of any amounts borrowed shall be paid, and the principal recouped by yearly allocations. Under this proposal the •cost of the Land Department, including roading, will go on the one side, the receipts on the other, and in a very few years they should be equalised. When the bill is introduced I shall be able to explain the details more exactly. Included either in the same or in a separate bill, we propose to make similar provisions for acquiring and dealing with native lands.

Public Works Expenditure. There was a balance on the 31st March, as already stated, to the credit of the old loans account of L 491,245. This amount may be swelled by the produce, if they be negotiated, of the debentutes, or the inscribed stock which the local bodies were authorised by the Act of last year to give in exchange for the debentures they liad issued under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act. Of the loan of last year there was, on the 31st March (including an amount still to come in, and since received), a credit balance of about L 730,055, and there was left of the North Island Trunk loan, after deducting the advance made on its account, about L 675,000, which, however, will be x'educed by the cost of raising the loan when it is negotiated. The estimates are not finally decided, but I shall not be far out when I state that the proposed expenditure, Apart from authority to incur liabilities, will amount out of the North Island Trunk line to about LlBO,OOO, and out of the loan of last year to about L 487.140. As regards expenditure out of the old loans •account, it will partly depend on whether we pass the measure dealing with the cost •of roads and roading to which I have referred, and whether early effect can be .given to it. It will also in part depend on whether we, pass another

measure to enable public buildings to be erected by means of short-dated annuities. The Minister for Public Works will furnish the House with further details. Members will, however, be able to .conclude from what I have said that tho Government con» skier that it is expedient to limit the issue of loans in the London market, and that for the present it is not desirable to undertake fresh railways beyond those already in hand.

The Depression and Its Causes. In conclusion, the Treasurer said : — "Hon. members will permit me to say something regarding the state of the colony. I gather from the speeches of several public men, and from articles in some of the newspapers, that the opinion prevails in various quarters that the colony has serious financial difficulties with which to contend. I will assume that party feeling has less to do with these opinions than general connection, and I will take leave to discuss them. As regards the deficit of last year and the execution required, I deny that there ate evidences of want of means on the part of the colony. We have already seen that the chief failure of revenue has arisen through causes that are of benefit, to the people — such as the Jess cost of goods on which nd valorem duties avo collected, and the less I use of intoxicating drinks. There is again a reduction of revenue owing to the more thrifty habits of the people. There cannot be any doubt that less money is spent in luxuries and keeping up appearances. Tho failure, then, of the revenue to come up to the amount mentioned and others not alluded to may not arise from a less inclination to spend, but from a less power to do so. This we will discuss directly. I believe it is a small and not huge element of the loss, and if for tho momenteliminated we may be able to say that the reduced revenue is in every way satisfactory because of the causes from which it arises, and that it is entirely free of suspicion of financial difficulty. If the revenue of New Zealand is too little, or its expenditure too great, neither necessarily evidences) any embarrassment. I assert positively that it.s people are able, if required, to add to the revenue such amount as may be requisite. That to have to do so us unpleasant goes without saying. With regard to the extent, if any, from which the revenue suiFers on account of the diminished power of expenditure of the people, I believe there is a diminished power of expenditure arising fiom several causes. One of these is that in past time money was so easily obtainable that people were led into borrowing it for the purpose of speculating in land. This means that land was forced up beyond its intrinsic value — that is to say, beyond tho capitalised value of what would represent a rack rent. Again, the colony suffers from smaller mdi vidual profits of all classes of the commu nity. Not only does the interest on the speculative purchases still held in suspense weigh on the people, but competition is much larger in business, and the profits are less, besides being shared by more people. This is another way of saying that producing and manufacturing industries have not increased with the number of persons who live on the profits of interchange. The diminished profits will be lemedied as a larger variety of means of employing industry and capital become available, and as the population increases. Smaller nominal profits even now partly represent in purchasing power the larger profitsof former days. Notwithstanding the taxation, the ! cost of living has materially doci eased, and probably will continue to do so. The same nominal sum gives perhaps 20 to 25 per cent, more purchasing power than formerly. I do not say this is better, it is in part a result of the gold appreciation, and at any rate symptoms of it, and it tends to discourage enterprise, but we are not to say a thing is bad because we might wish it better. I am pointing out that affairs are not in some respects .so advantageous in New Zealand as they were, but as a consolation, I might add the falling ofi' here is fractional to the falling off in other countries. It seems to me to be opposed to all the teaching of experience to consider that the depression which has existed, or still exists, is likely to be permanent. New Zealand can rely on the unquestionable fact that in climate, in fertility of soil, in mineral wealth, in manufactures^ capabilities in vast resources by land and sea, it possesses such a multiplicity of advantages as are not excelled, if even equalled, by any portion of the globe. I consider the colony is, to some extent, in a transition state as regards the occupations of the people, and the remuneration they enjoy ; profits have either become less, or are more widely divided, the rate of salaries and of wages is also showing a tendency to reduction. The falling off is pretty compensated by the les3 cost of commodities, which enables the same income to have a larger purchasing power, but the net result is not pleasing to those who have to submit to it. Large purchasing power is altogether lost sight of, the diminished earnings remain an abiding cause of complaint. When we survey, however, the aggregate position of the colony it would be difficult to find much reason for complaint. The Property Tax assessment lately made was much more exhaustive and accurate than those previously compiled, and it may be accepted as a reliable return of the assets and liability of the colony. The value of all real property in the colony, exclusive of native land, situated beyond any road suitable for horse traffic, is L110,376,0.')9, and the value of the personal property is L82,r>40,31f), making together Ll 98,91 6,974, which is exclusive of tho value of public works. The amount is thus represented : — Crown lands, L13,67."v)1G ; native lands within 5 miles of roads suitable for horse traffic, L 0,847,105., 847, 105. Education, muncipal, and other reserves, exclusive of church reserves, which are included in taxable real estate, L 7,252,273;, 252, 273 ; taxable real estate, L 47,277,142; non-taxable real estate, L42 ) 324,023: Total, Ll 16,376,659. Personal property, taxable, L43,0()5,538 : non - taxable, L 25 ,1.39,277. Allowed for exemption at present, but which, by our present proposals will be somewhat limited, Ll3,K9a,f>o() ; total, L 82,540,310. The gross return shows an increase on the 1882 assessment of L 15 ,376,659 real property and of personal property.

Who Pay tho Property Tax. "** There are 27,820 property taxpayers, and as no one pays who has less than LoOO, it .follows that there are that number of persons possessed of LoOO, and over. I find that the 27,826 tax-payers include 5,998 widows, spinsters, trustees, and absentees, and companies. The balance of 21,828 represents the male taxpayers. There are 157,503 adult males in the colony by the late census, so that an average of one male adult in a little over seven is the possessor of at least £500. The calculation is liable to slight rectification to meet the separate returns of firms which cannot be distinguished. I do not think, however, it would much affect the result. First, in the list of callings come the taxpayers under the head of graziers, sheep farmera, settlers in country, dairymen, &c. Their

number is 9,747. Next come tradesmen (wholesale and retail, shop-keepers, storekeepers, carriers, etc.), 4,330 ; widows, wife trustees, spinsters came on third with 3,049. We all, I think, "would like to see them more forward in -the race for wealth, and the same remark applies to the next in order, working storemen, labourers, shepherds, miners, sailors, &c, who are enumerated at 2,088 ; professional men, including authors and editors, number 1,226 ; merchants, importers, warehousemen, contractors, &c, 1,231, of whom 282 are firms and agents. Auctioneers, clerks, book-keepers, teachers (not under Educational Board), merchants, captains, etc., 1,134. I need not quote the other numbers, excepting, perhaps, to state that the Civil servants, officers of local bodies, teachers under Board of Education, etc., number 649.

Assets and Liabilities of the Colony. I have had a return very carefully prepared showing the assets and liabilities of the colony. It does not include such works as roads and bridges. Jt shows under the head of Assets : Real property, Ll 1 0,376, G^) ; personal property, L82,r>40,310 ; Government property, L 19,377,985, making a total of L' 218,294,939. On the other side, Liabilities are : Debit of the Colony, less sinking fund, L 51 ,088,349; debts of local bodies, L0,1>10,273 ; debts represented by mortgages, L 31,821, 109 ; indebtedness exclusive of mortgages, L20,365,f)93 ; amounting in all to L 89,491,324, and leaving a surplus of L128,803,G35, or divided amongst the population, exclusive of Maoris, it shows a surplus of L 223 for each man, woman and child in the colony. It has also to be remembered that native lands within the live mile limit are not included in the assets. I ask hon. members to ponder over these facts themselves. It is unnecessary for me to draw deductions from them. I cannot, however, resist reading a few words from the remarks of the expert Mr Proctor Baker, who was appointed by the Royal Commissioners to report on the grain section in the late Colonies and Indian Exhibition. " The average produce of over twenty-six bushels per acre of wheat, and over thirty-two bushels of barley, places New Zealand in the position of being among the most prolific countries in the world. The samples of wheat shown in sheaf by the Canterbury Association are so remarkable as to deserve to be placed on record, in fact, nothing liner than these wheats has probably ever been seen. The wheats of commerce which are shipped to England do not approach in qualities these fine specimens. The samples of barley were simply magnificent, and such barley as the Chevalier would bring enormous prices in England. If anything like the quality exhibited can be produced in quantity and delivered in England in good condition, a ready market would be found for it, and (supposing the produce in beer be equivalent to the appearance of the barley) at very high prices. In the quality of its oats, again, New Zealand is in the front rank. The samples of potato oats are unsurpassable. Whether such splendid grain as is here exhibited is common and can be obtained in quantity is doubtful, but sti 1 ! the fact remains that in all the chief grains New Zealand has shown by these samples a production of superb quality, and in prolific quantities." No one, I hope, can have listened to this criticism without feelings of pride that such a magnificent encomium can bo passed on the colony by a competent and unprejudiced judge. Remarks like these should prove strong incentives to those interested in New Zealand, and inducements to persons in other countries who are looking out for " fresh fields and pastures new." Apropos of our agricultural capabilities a few words should be said concerning the lately compiled statistics. They record an increase of 647 freehold, 420 rented, and 502 part freehold and part rented holdings of over an acre in extent, or what may be considered an addition of 1 ,509 settlers. The average yield per acre of wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes has in every case increased, excepting in barley. There was also a larger production of these articles, amounting in net value to £65,000.