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Taranaki Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 869, 20 March 1869, Page 4

EFFUSING TO CALL THE ASSEMBLY TOGETHER. — The Auckland Herald says — " What public ground can Mr. Stafford possibly advance in justification of the course he is pursuing. The East Coast campaign was abandoned in the moment of victory — when Te Kooti and the Uriweras should have been followed up nntil they were literally out to pieces — in order that the siege of Wanganni might be raised. Taranaki settlers are again driven in before the tomahawk, and the Minister of Defence is forced publicly to admit that the Colonial Government has no available force to save that Province from being again overrun by the rebels. Waikato is in danger, and the Resi- j dent Minister in Auckland is left powerless to take those precautionary measures which his judgement and his inclination wonld prompt him to do, because he knows that the Government cannot meet the expenditure they wonld occasion. All this is very terrible to contemplate, bnt it is due entirely to the obstinacy with which the Ministry refuses to meet the Parliament. Do Mr. Stafford and his colleagues clearly comprehend the fullness of the responsibility which they are thus taking npon themselves P The Taniwha.— The following letter signed A. J. Hadfipld, has been addressed to the Editor of the Wellington Independent : — " Two or three letters appeared in the Independent concerning a taniwha that had been seen in the lake near Otaki; and although I am one of the party mentioned by Mr. Stock as having seen tho monster, I have not written before, knowing how incredulous most people are of anything relating to taniwhas, and thinking that by waiting, some one else might catch sight of him, and assist me to convince the unbelieving that we had seen something. I have not had to wait long. My brother (who was with mo when I saw the taniwha) and a Maori have just come in from mustering sheep on the hills overlooking the lake : they declare that at about 11 o'clock a.m. they saw the taniwha thrust his head (as our opportunities of seeing his proportions have been unsatisfactory, I will not say it was not his tail) three or four feet out of the water, not far from where he was last seen, and about three hundred yards distant from them, and that after laying on the water about half a minute he suddenly sank. I will now give an account of the taniwha as he appeared to myself and brother, on the occasion to which Mr. Stock referred. It was v on the Bth of December 1868, about 4 o'clock p.m., that we were returning home (our house is near the lake), when a strange object caught my eye, lying about five hundred yards distant, like a log on the water. We watched it for several minutes, I then turned my horse's head and was riding away, when I was stopped by my brother calling out that he had seen the water splash ; on looking round to my amazement, I beheld the object, that we had before taken for a log, about a foot higher out of the water, which was agitated for a considerable distance around him. The object now appeared to be about fifteen feet in length, and after settling down in the positon we first saw him, moved slowly towards a bay. There was not a ripple on the water except what was occasioned by the crocodile(P) The lake is about three-quarters of a mile long, and in some parts very deep. A dense bush spreads from the waters edge up the side of the Tararua ranges." A Hint to Members op the General Assembly. I—The1 — The Court Journal says a curious fashion has crept into the House of Commons. The idea was evidently got by an inventive M.P. after visiting a nursery and seeing young Six Monthß going through a performance. The fashion we allude to is that of having a bottle in the breast coat-pocket. The bottle is filled with some liquid — say, to be on good terms with the teetotallers, barley water — and that liquid is imbibed by the M.P. through a tube. It is perhaps more convenient to the Bpeaker than to carry about a glass of water till his turn to speak, and which if he places by his side, is sure to be seized and consumed by a thirsty neighbour. Holloway's Pills. — The chiefest wonder of modern times. — This incomparable medicine increases the appetite, strengthens the stomach, cleanses the liver, corrects biliousness, and prevents flatulency, purifies the system, invigorates the nerves, snd reinstates sound health. The enormous demand for these Pills throughout the globe astonishes everybody, and a single trial convinces I the most sceptical that no medicine equals Holloway's Pills in its ability to remove all complaints incidental to the human race. They are a blessing to the afflicted, and a boon to all who labour under internal or external disease. The purification of the blood, removal of all restraints from the secretive organs, and gentle aperient action, are the prolific sources of the extensive curative range of Holloway's Pills. A Cure for Love. — Take a grain of sense, 4 a grain of prudence, a dram of understanding, 1 ounce of patience, 1 lb. of resolution, fold them up in the alembia of your brains \ for twenty-four hours. Then set them on a slow fire of hatred ; cleanse them with the dregs of melancholies ; sweeten them with the sugar of forgetfulness ; put them in the bottle of your heart, stopping them down with a cork of sound judgment; let them stand fourteen days in the water of cold affection ; this rightly made and properly applied is the most effectual cure in the universe, and never known to fail. N.B. —You may have the ingredients at the House of understanding in Constant Street, by going up the Hill of SelfDenial, in the Town of Forgetfnluess, in the County of Love. A young man who received a blowing up from his sweetheart called her a wind-lass. Op course she would*"— Young Lady : It was rather bold of Capt. Blazer to kiss my hand, wasn't it, Aunty ? Aunty : Bold ! I should rather think bo. I should like to catch him kissing mine !