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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 17, 20 August 1886, Page 9

A Dornwell solicits the custom of all who appreciate a joint of the beat quality at tbe lowest remunerative price for cash, and who like then- sausages made of Bach meat af» is cut up "before tbeir ey \ and m a cleanly maune;. — [Ajovt.] Don't fill tie system with quinine in the effort to prevent or cure Fever or Ague. Ayer's Ague Cure is a far more potent preventitive and remedy, with the advantage of leaving in tbe body no poisons t.» produce dizziness, deafness, headache, aud other disorders. The proprietors warrant it. Ancient history, it has been well eaid, was made by geography and modern by geo'ogy. The indented coast- Vnes of the Med'«erranean peninsulas were a condition of their supremacy in tbe ancient world, wh'le the greatness of England and tbe United States is largely based npon tbeir coal-fields. Within the last few years another mineral agent hasbegnn to play a great part in ttie world. All the last developments of Russian policy in Central As<a would have been impossible without the 6udden giowth of tbe petroleum industry at Baku. The oil wells have converted the barren shores of the Caspian into perhaps the most prosperous portion of all the Czar's domains. They have changed Baku itse'f from an isolated outpost to a flourishing seat of trade. They have built the railway bet-ween that port pnd Tiflis ; they have added to the importance of Baton m ; they have created great fleets upon the Caspian and the Volga, and added to the receipts of all the central Susaian lines that converge at Czaryzin ; lastly, they have brought the Transcaspian railway, the great factor in the Central Asian politics of the near future, within the range of practical politic 3. It is satisfactory to find that the supplies of petroleum are not cod fined to the western end of the Central Asian line. D'scoveries have, been made at what the Russians hope will scan be the south eastern terminus. The oil-well* of Sibi already feed the locomotives o f . the Indus Valley road, and -will probably som supply Ihe Pisheen frontier trains. That adds orach to the value of tbe prospective terminus of It. Laesar's system ; unluckily it also :ucreaseß: ucreaseB very appreciably s ibat gentleman's difficulties in getting there.