MISCELLANEOUS.

Western Star, Issue 2118, 29 May 1897, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

R. McKenzie, the well-known Invercargill. cyclist, put up an Invercargill to Wyndham record—7lmin.

Calvert's Carbolic Tooth Powder, Piste and Soaps are too well known to need special remark, but to those who h«re not tried*Bem it may be said that both from the pqintt: of view of health and comfort, it would be impossible to use better articles.

An explosion of 8000 kilogramoies of dynamite at a factory at Krummell killed four and wounded-eight workmen.

Don't Cough.—Relief can be obtained immediately. Use "KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES"—-ell known as the utterly unrivalled Cough Remedy. Strongl) recommended by many eminent physicians. They at once check the cough and remove tha canse without any after effect j'-i the moat delicate can therefore take them. -Que Lozenge alone gives ease- one or two &t a time ensures rest. Sold rverj where in tins 3£d each Britain has abandoned Consular Courts in Madagascar. „• ,

HOW IS IT THAT 'CIABX'S! Bl»M> Mixthbb has obtained such great popularty " is a question wliioh ha? perplexed manv The answer is, that it is unquestionably the finest Blood Purifier that science and medical skill have brought to light. Thousands of wonderful cures have •■ been effected by if For Soorfula, Scurvy, Eczema* Skin and Blood Diseases, Bad Legs, Sorea and Pimplea of all kinds its effects are marvellous. Sold everywhere, at 2s. 9d. per bottle. . Beware of wo ithless imitations and substitute?. 2

The Dervishes are raiding Tokar, • fortified town in Upper Ethiopia. 70 miles south af Suakrm. One Box op Ciabk's 841 Piixsjiswar ranted to cure all discharges from the"' tTrin ary Organs, in either sex (acquired orconati tutional, Gravel and Pains in the Back Guaranteed free from Mercury.' Sold in Boxes 4s. 6d. each, by all'Chemists-'«d Patent Medicine Vendors throßghoufc; 4be World. Proprietors •. ; Thb, LntcoiK asd Midiand CouirriES Dbtjg Company, 1 Lincoln, England. i , Quadrilles on bicycles was a feature at a public entertainment given : in Auckland last week. Holloway's Pills.—Tha stomach and ittroubles cause more discomfptt; and jmobß.'iine happiness than isbbmmodlystippbaed.^'Ththousand ills thab settle there miy be pref vented or dislodged by a jadioioua use o, these purifying Pill.SjiWhioh ;aot'aii* aura gentle anti-acid.aperient*, without annoying the nerves of the most eusceptable or irritating the most - delicate organisation.,; Holloway's Pills will bestow comfort and confer, relief on. every, headachy, dyapjeptipyr and sickly sufferer, whose torturea make, him a burden to himself and a bugbear to hia friends. These pills have lpngbeeri, tbjß.pgpnlar remedy for a weak stomach, for a disordered liver, or a paralysed "digestion, whioh yield without difficulty to their regulating, purifyinf, and tonio qualities, Mataura Paper Mill employes contributed £6 6s to Hawkes Bay Fund. To the Dba» and those troubled with Noises in the Head or other Aural Troubles. Dr Niohtlson of London, the worldrfftmed Aural Speoialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums* has just issued the 100th edition of his illustrated and descriptive book'on Deafness and Aural Troubles. This book may be had from Mr Colin Campbell, 160, Adelaide Road, Wellington, N.Z. Mr Campbell wa3 cured of his deafness by Dr Niobolsoo's

system, and takes pleasure in spreading the news o£ the great specialist in New'Zealand. A. little book on the. care of Bhut'.aiatwm Corpulence, same author may be had from Mr Cimpiell also free.

Speaking at a dinner given by the officers of the QuetmV Westminster Volunteers, Lieut. Lasetter,' Commander of the N.S, Wales M6nrited Rifle?, said Australia gloried ;in Britain's isolation. He maintained as a united empire they were able to

resist the world. The wife of Mr. Leonard Wells, of Em Brimfield, Mass., had been suffering from neuralgia for two days, not beingabl* to sleep or hardly keep still, when* Mr. Holdeo, the merchant there sent-her a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and asked that, she give it;» thorough tria,l..-On meeting Mr. Wells, the ncx' day he was toldt'mt she was'all right, the pain had left her within two bonis,' and that the bottle Pain Balm was worth 5:00dolf. i£ it could not be bad for less. For sale I>y C. F. A. : Whiteford Chemist EirertOßY '

Mr J. M. Wilson, M.P. for Middlesboruugh, and ex-secretary to |Ke Amalgamated Sailor's and Firemen'a Union, has been examined before the Parliamentary Committee on fair wag<s in Government contracts. He urged that provision should be made in the P. and O. mail contract for the payment of the Union rate oi: wages to British and Lascar seamen a ike.

G- od advice . Never laave home on journev without |a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and J)iirrhoea. Kennedy. For sale by C. F. A. Wai'eford Chemist Rnreriou

Something in a name ! The Canterbury A. and P. Association request the Otago A and P. Association to investigate the statement that frozen mutton from Otago was branded " Prime Canterbury." Sir "William Jervois, formerly Governor of New Zealand, ia reported to be failing rapidly in health. He is still in England.