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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 45, 27 February 1885, Page 17

As the season is now approaching at which trees and shrubs and all manner of plants may be safely moved, all who are interested in gardening operations or the formation or improvement of plantations of any kind will do well to inspect the Braidvale nursery, constructed by Messrs. Gordon Brothers at the North East Valley Danedin. Messrs. Herbert, Haynes and Co. Princes Street, Dunedin, advertise the receipt of a new stock of Autumn and Winter drapery. It is needless to add that the goods in question are of the excellent quality for which those of the firm have always been remarkable. An exceptional opportunity is now offered to persons desirous of obtaining a really first-class hotel business in a centre of steadily increasing importance, We allude to the buildiug erected and close upon completion by Mrs. Malaghan at Queenstown. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the best medicine for every one in tha spring. Emigrants and travellers will find in it an effectual cure for the eruptions, boils, pimples, eczema, etc., that break out on the skin — the effect of disorder in the blood, caused by sea-diet and life on board ship.

There are now nearly 200 branches of the Irish National League in England. There is prospect of one or two constituencies in London as well as in Liverpool being at the disposal of the Irish ; and in Berrnondsey, Rotherhithe, and Poplar, they ought, says a prominent Radical politician, to be able to return their own men at the next general election.

London, Dec. 27. — The recent outrage by brigands at Cortelos, in Gallicia, was even more terrible than at first reported. The ruffians surrounded the village church and parsonage, while some of their number entered the residence aDd ordered the priest to tell where his money was kept. The priest had in his possession a considerable sum of money which had been collected for the poor of the parish, and he steadily refused to reveal the place where it was concealed. The brigands bound the priest and threatened him with a terrible death, but he persisted in his refusal, and they filled his furnace with straw, lighted it, and thrust the unfortunate priest into the fire. His screams as be was burning to death were heard all over the village, but the. villagers were too much frightened to interfere. The priest was burned to a crisp. The brigands then deliberately plundered his house and several others and vanished 83 mysteriously as they came. No arrests have been made. A torpid liver, a stomach out of order, digestive apparatus weak, and the brain in cousequence of these disorders, over sepsitive to exertion or to any unusual circumstance, and the formula for a " crank " iscomplet3. Ayer's Pills will jouse up the liver, regulate the functions of the stomach and bowels, the tired .brain will be relieved, and the head resume its wonted level. ■ . •