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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIV, Issue 40, 28 January 1887, Page 7

Wells' Hair Balsam.— lf gray, restores to original colour. A.n elegant dressing, softens and beautifies. No oil nor grease. A Tonic Restorative. Stops hair coming out ; strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp. A Republican deputy has made the discovery that the crews of the French fleet still have morning and evening prayers on board ship. He demands the immediate suppression of this habit, and will move a vote of blame against the Minister of the Navy. A correspondent writes to the Allgemeine Zeitung complaining that a historic spot, noteworthy in the early life of mediaeval Germany, is doomed to disappear beyond recognition . Ingleheim was a favourite residence of Charlemagne, where he built a great palace and monastery and laid out pleasure grounds. From the hill where be had fixed his own dwelling, he remarked the early disappearance of the winter snow from the Johannisberg and the slopes of Rudesheim, and he had vines brought from Italy and planted in these places, which instinct told him would produce good wine. This was the first introduction of the vine into Germany. Few.remains of the buildings now exist. What their extent must have been may be inferred from the fact that from the Ingelheim hill to the Hhine is fully two miles, and yet the river is said, in all accounts, to have washed the palace walls. It is this hill and immediate neigbourhood which is known among the people by the name of " Charlemagne'i Hall." Some pillars were standing in the last century ; but they have been long since scattered. One of them is preserved at Kayence. A great champagne grower purchased the property some years ago ; but it has since passed into the hands of a limited company, who purpose letting it out in small peasant holdings.