Our Feaiherston correspondent telegraph* —“ lu reference to a paragraph in Tuesday'* Observer, reflecting on the proprietor of the Empire hotel of this town, that gentleman bag requested the police department to institute proceedings in older to arrive at the truth of the statement of his keeping a disorderly bouse. He lus likewise instructed his solicitor in Wellington to proceed against the proprietor of the paper (or liM." Whatever the result of the above may be, there i« no doubt that tbe paper is a disgrace to jour, ualism. Unable to obtain an t thing of a circulation beyond its own town it seeks notoriety by scandalising hotelkeepers, tbe police, civil servants, and othera. W’o lind that many residents in Carterton denounce the paper in the strongest terms. The TenniWhareama Cop was won by Firstwater, not Freebooter, as previously stated. Another fallacy, or rather two of them are knocked on tbe head by tbe following advice from a medical man Don't rock babies, either in cribor chair. The motion is an unhealthy on«£ Try it ? Rock yourself half-an-hour without interruption, and see how|your heads feels ! 1 am glad rot here are going out of fashion. Don’t chnrn it* brains by trotting it on your knees, or throwing it up and down in your hands. None but a first class circus tumbler could stand such nonsense. How many f»M heart diseases have orignaled in this common practice of the nursery I know not, bat am certain the number must have bison very large, and that myriads have bam mia> chievohely affected, tad bava died.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1805, 10 March 1886, Page 2
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