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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 2298, 17 April 1875, Page 3

I The Opposition in the Assembly. — An Auckland correspondent to tho Otago Guardian states that it ia understood Sir George Grey ia engaged in a correspondence with Mr. Stafford, My. HoUeston, Mr. Fitahcvljovt, and Mr. Macandrew, in order to lay down a basis for the action of an Opposition. A Cube for Cancer.— A novel euro for cancer is tho subject) of the following paragraph furnished by the Advertiser" s Port Wakefield correspondent : — " Mr. Smart, a farmer, residing at the Six Mile, near Porb Wakefield, has been suffering from a cancer for more than four years. When it first made its appearance on tho edgo of the right shoulder blade, it was only the size of a pea, but it soon spread its roots, until it attained almost the size of a five-shilling piece, and raised in the centre. It had a livid appear ance, and was constantly discharging, producing loss of 'appetito, aud reduciug the sufferer to a mere skeleton. It so unfitted Mr. Smart for work, that he wds compelled to relinquish his farm in favour of his son. Foi some time Mrs. Smart tried Bates's salve and other ointments, but without any improvement. She then applied simply wet cloths, which produced a slight improvement. Ie November last, a letter appeared in the Methodist Journal, from an officer in California, who stated that three of his family connections and two Mends of his had bcei: cured of Hevcro cancers by the application ol tho yoke of an egg, beat up with as mucl salt as would form a paste, or ointmcut, ant dressed twice a day. Mrs. Smart havinj seen the prescription, resolved at once to trj it, and in three days she saw an improvement The cancer gradually diminished in size, tin discharge ceased, and to-day (February) which is not three months from the com mencement, there is scarcely a vestige of fhi j cancer left, and Mr. Smart is now as well am 1 active as ever. Foeling thankful for th great benefit he has derived from so simple i remedy, ho is desirous that others should giv it a trial."