THE BAD AND WORTHLESS

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1112, 21 January 1885, Page 4

THE BAD AND WORTHLESS

are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. B and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H.B. Many others started nostrums pu< up in similar style to H.B. with variously devised names in which the word " Hop " or " Hops" were used in a way to induce people to -believe they, were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the "Hop" or ''Hops," in their name are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, andDrSoule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against deahngfin imitations or counterfets.

The woi k done at the meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute recently held at Auckland includes lesolutionn iv favor of

reducing the standard examinations, ny reraov- ~ ing geography from Standard 11., and history from Standard 111., as testsubj-cto; also favoriug the teacbei-'a right to withhold from examination those pupils who fail to put in 300 attendances during the school year; also giving expression to the opiniou that the Inspectors should be placed under the central department. It was resolved to forward the different resolutions tn the Government aud the vai ious Education Boards. The "Journal of Education" prints the following samples of examination blunders :— 1. What aro the mineral products of Australia ? Tinned meats. 2 De edidus Bibuh con donanUumi — Spouting forth quotations from the old Testament. 3. VVhat is the feminine of cock robin ? Give similar instances of gender in English.— Jenny, wren, mare, maress; church, chapel. 4. A boy of eleven, on entering a middle-class school, was toM to write out the Lord's Prayer. He began, "Ow Father, witch art in even, Harold be thy name," and, turning to the ma3ter, who was looking over his plionlder. remarked with a self-satisfied air, "That's my name too." o. Francis Bacon was a black friar who invented gunpowder and the new organ. He was imprisoned ill James reign for the gunpowiler plot, where he wrote his celebrated essays. He was a very learned man and wrote a book about Greek. The " Timaru Herald " says :— There was a time when it was considered decidedly infra dig to be known for a newspaper writer. Theie are still some people— especially in the Golouiea, strange to say— who aifect to look down on journalists, and who think it a very clever thin* to sneer at anyone they do not like by hinting that he is connected in some way or other with the Pi ess. We need hardly say that these as a rule are fither very stupid or else very vulgar people. Not uof reqnently they ai c both, and their pretended contempt for newspaper writers is in reality the outcome of jealousy and self-wnsciousuess of inferiority. They may be rich and even clever in some ways ; but they feel themselves below the mark intellectually, aud it galls them to kuow that they could not sit down and wiite a dozen lines that would be worth reading on any subject under tbe sud. Henue it affords them a certain aott of couvse satisfaction to depreciate writers generally, and especially to insinuate that journalism is a poor pursuit, which no man of ability would engage in unless he were ohliged. This variety of snobs, however, are fast becoming rare; because the time has arrived when an enlightened society give the place of honor to men of letters, and when no rank is too high for its occupant to be proud of proficiency as a newspaper writer. The entertainment to be given under the auspices of the Tunpeka County Jockey Club in the Town Hull to-morrow and the following evening strikes out a new line from What has been p'.accd before a Lawrence audi-nee of late. An nmateuv Dramatic

Company has been formed of well-knowu • Lawrence amateurs, aided by several who have not previously been before tbe Lawrence public, and by them Charles Selby's sparkling comedy, "The Unfinished Gentleman," will be performed. This sparkling piece must be heard to be appreciated, and we venture to say that those who make a point of attending will not go away disappointed. The performance will conclude with a most amusing farce/eutitled " The Bonnie Fishwife," which alone U worth hearing and seeing. After the entertainment each evening there will be a race-ball, so that the most fastidious pWsurraeekers can hare their tastes satisfied. SOME of the member 3of the Lawrence Bowliug Club, thinking it advisable fo secure the bowling-green as a permanent recreation ground for tlie inhabitants of Lawrence, put out a feeler in the direction of forming a Company of the members for the purpose of purchasing the grounds outright, Messrs "Woods and Stenhouae waited upou the members, and were so far successful that 370 £Isllares.were agreed to be taken up. A meet ing of the members was then called to discuss the project. The meeting took place in the Town Hall on Monday night, Mr J. J. "V^oods (President) being in the chair. Therewas a fair attendance of members. A resolution was passed to the effect that a Company, with limited liabili'ies, to be styled " Tlie Tuapeka Bowling - green Company (limited)," be formed for the purchase of the grounds. The Company is lo consist of 400 shares of £1 each, payable iv monthly instalments

THE annual picnic of the Chuvch. of England Sunday School was held on the recreation -ground^ yesterday. The children assembled at the" srhool at mid-Say, and marcb'ed in procession to the ground, when luncheon was partaken of. Various games were kept up with vigor till about five o'clock, when' tea and an abundance of good things were 'again dispensed. After ted play was resumed and kept up with spirit till about half -past six, when the children formed into proceEßion and marched, singing all the way to the school where, a' ter giving three cheers for the Yen. Archdeacon Beaumont, the Superintendent (Mr Thompson), and all who assisted at the picnic, they dispersed, having enj >jed a splendid afternoon's fan. There were considerably over a hundred chi'dren pres2nt, and their teachers and a number of friends.— lt is a pity that a Union Sunday School picnic could cot be organised. The children meet together on a common footing at the day school, ai.d it certainly would be nicer to give them an annual treat together. A much better picnic could ' hus be organised, and tbe larger numbers assembled together would make it more generally enjoyable. Though the Church of England people make all who w.sh to at' end their picnic thoroughly welcome, still visitors feel a constraint mch qS they would not experience at a combined picnic. We nvrely throw out the suggestion for future occa ions.