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Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3237, 6 February 1879, Page 3

One hundred Chinese have been employed\ on the Tapanui (Otago) railway contraobr The '" Europeans show a disposition to resent. The following complimentary passage appears in the journal 2ht OcknUt-md India, in* letter alleged to be from its Wellington correiv pondent:—' Qo some Saturday evening into,' some small publio house in any country town;' see there a man dirty and unkempt, smelling strongly of beer or gin, with hie hands in bis ■ trousers pookets and a battered h<t onthe biek of his head, without a necktie, and with a | ah rt from the appearanos of which one might < justly conclude that he had been bun and grown up in it—a man who never in his life made the acquaintance of the letter, h, and' whose education was begun, continued by mo«i oi Rtyndik', or some similar print—a man whose sole subject of conversation is sensuality' ialts various forms, and whose only idea of' mnsio it a bawdy song, and inch as he is, yon have an excellent type of a certain alass of the honourable representatives of this Colony, • AtticuV in the Melbourne Ltttikr, writes:: —The Hebraic money-lender is popularly sup-j peaed to stand upon the' forfeit of his bond' at implaoibly as Shylock did. Hardup, of the Fialingwat Office, who has conducted finanoul operations with both Jew and Christian, denies. the correctness of the theory, Someone was' running down the rapacity and harshness of Jewish discounters in bis presence the other day. 'Don't believe a word of it,' replied he; 'I'm just now in the hands of a Presbyterian minister, and I find him a harder nut to crack than any Jew money-lender I ever dealt with.' To sign the pledge and afterwards to be presented with a bottle of nine, is one of those dreadful things which will occasionally happen. People talk abont suffering, but they don't know anything about it. IMkimy'sPilk-TUi purifying aud regulating medicine should occasionally be had recourse to during foggy, cold, and wet weather. It is the best preventative of hoarseness, sore throat, diphtheria, pleurisy, asthma, aud a sure remedy for congestion, bronchitis and inflammation. Attention to the pirections folded round each box will enable invalids to take the Pills in the most advantageous '•'. manner j they will be taught the proper doses aid the c rcumstances under which these must be in creased or diminished. Ifolloway's Pills act as alteratives, aperients, and tonics. When taken as a last resource, the result has always been gratifyng; even when they|tail to euro they always assauagethosovoiity.of ho m*toms';ana' ulminiilj danger