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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8935, 18 November 1890, Page 2

The last survivor of the sis ers who assisted Florence Nightingale in her mission of mercy during the Crimean War has just died, aged sixty-six, at Ascot Priory. Miss Turnbull, the lady in question, had for several years been Reverend Mother of a religious institution in Plymouth. • According to Mr W. Dawson, farm manager to tho Duke of Richmond, at Gordon Castle, N.B, pleuropneumonnia can be cured by causing an affected beast to inhale paraffin oil. He says he has tried this remedy on several occasions with much success during the last eighteen years, and that others who have followed his example testify to the efficacy of the treatment. The difficulty is in getting tho oil on to tho lungs, and if it is really a remedy for pleuro-pneumonia some means of spraying the oil down the windpipe of the animal should be doviaed. Mr Dawson's plan is to place a sponge saturated with tho oil in one nostril, keeping tho other closed with tho hand, to compel the animal to inhale the oil. Cricket and Lawn Tennis Season. — Just received a nice assortment of cricket and lawn tennis goods from the best makers ; and a new stock of selected Boxing Gloves. He has also added a nice line of silver-mounted pipes to his well assorted stock. He draws special attention to hfs shilling pipos, accorcleons, concertinas, hollow-ground razors, pockot cutlery, &c, cut and plug tobaccos, cigars and cigarettes to suit all tastes. Agent for Old Judge cigarettes and Waterbury watches.— John Avory, Avholesalo and retail tobacconist, New Plymouth, — Adv. When people find they can gain an advantage by pursuing any line of policy they generally appreciate it. One way of gaining a point is by investing in Renshaw s Currio Powder ; it is the best strongest, and cheapest. — Advt. One of the chief pleasures of life is a capacity for the enjoyment of the . food necessary to our existence. Those who have lost this capacity may regain it by using Renshaw's Aucklund they Relish the great appetizer. — Advt. A well-known commercial traveller writes :—": — " J\ly wife has tried Renshaw'a Monarch of Pain with wonderful results for neuralgia, which caused eovere pain and suffering, but which waa reuwvda upon, the ftrst application.— Advt.