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Colonist, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8062, 5 October 1894, Page 3

Mr Gladstone's eye is not going on so well as at first. A sort of film seems to h*ve formed which ap parently will necessitate a farther slight operation. One foundling a6ylum in Moeoow receives 12,000 infants eveiy year. The boys are trained for the navy ; the girls receive manual training, are taught to read, and are married to peasants or artisans. A woek involving great patienoe has just been completed by Mrs Harris, an invalid lady in "Wellington, in the shape of a dedgn representing a paroquet Bitting on a branch, done in bead embroidery on black velvet. There are no less than 26,000 beads, in 90 different shades. In its Sydney branch one small insurance office employs 20 female clerks. The Government of India owns most of the 18,000 miles of railway in that dependency, and operates the greater por.ion thereof, The servica is phenomenally bad, Ihe traios clow and the fares high ; but the yield of the investment is balow 5 per cent. Thers is a market in Danedin for Russian Bunflowtr seed, a local firtn being prepared to purchase it at £12 10s per ton. To encourage its cultivation they have imported the seed, and will enter into an agreement to purchase the crop. Each of the oat going steamers to China lately has taken large quantities of lead from Sydney, a good deal of it being frcm toe Broken Hill. One of the China Navigation Com-; pany's vessels had as much as 1,000 tons on board, another bad 400 tons, and the E. and A. Company's Airlie, which sailed last week, took 3,440 bars of lead. Whilst at work in his claim at Tonnel Terrace — a tableland between the diggiog townships of Staffordtown and Goldsborongh, on the West Coast, last Monday week, a miner named Ludovio Martini was recovered aUve, but severely cut and braised, after having been swept down and emptied out of his tail race, which is 1500 feet long. Fays ' Melbourne Argus' : — Wonderful success has attended the pearlers out westward of Eoeburne during the last tbree months. Parks is reported to have obtained 21b weight of pearls. George Tagg brought in £600 worth, including a drop weighing 72 grains, and a ehort drop weighing 38 grains. Charles P. Ct>rlstrom a«so struck a lucky find, the take being valued rougLly at £650. Tagg'a| pearls were obtained from two tons of shell only, wbicU wcra ob ained in Barrow Passage.

The musical public of Nelson and district bhould beware of traveling tunerß r presenting themselves as employed by or connected with Wellington and other firm?. Customers in this district, who have had their instruments attended to for the past six years by Mr R. H Martin, certificated tuner, may Etitl rely upo thorough satisfaction being given, prompt attention and moderate charges. Mr Martin holds tefereoces from Ohas. Begg and Go, Dnnedin, Dresden Piano Company, Danedin, and H. Collier and Co, WaoganDi, and several testimonials from privata individaals for tuning and repair ng. Old pianos and organs taken bb part payment for new, and full market value allowed. Country districts vi ited regularly every fonr months. All ofdera left with Mr T. B. Buffain, or at privata residence, Hardy S( East, will have Btriot at temion. B. H. Martin, resideiitial pitno forte tnner and repairer, Koleod. A. W. Bain & Co. have pleasure in an*noancicg the arrival of their first shipments of Spring Goods, etd will have them iv rfiadineas, for inspection on and after Thursday of this week. The bulk of the goods will a rive during the next few daj s, and we can promise our customers a moot select and choioe assortment o! useful, fashionable, and seasonable Drapery, a: pticas that will stand any comparison. Our stock of Dre s Materials ia of a very Buperior character, atd our reputation as Dressmakers is beyond faestion. We cordially SBk the public to visit the "Economic Drapery Warehouse." — A. W. Biio & Co. COSBOMPTION.— Dr Gordon's Ltmg Baleam brings robust health to those wasted away by; Long diseases; Post free, 6/G.— J. W Clayton, Danedin. ' ; Femaijq Piucs — Dr Gordon's Female Pills speedily iemove all iircguarUies and ob.trneUona; Post free;'4/-;'twb boxes 7/-,— J. Wi pinytqa, Dnnedin,