t “ It’s my boy—my Jack —come home ! 5; ‘sobbed the poor old mother. And, taking his head to her breast, thanked heaven for her son. And it was he ; for, coming to him self, he had managed to drag himself round the cliff, and with his last re maining strength had crawled home un perceived. But sailors can bear a great deal, especially when they are young, and the: next day he was walking slowly downi to the beach with his mother, to show her where he had been cast ashore. On the sand was collected a small crowd of fishermen and sailors round some: object of interest, and guessing what : this object might be, he left his; mother at Ja ; Uttle distance and /went to - see. There, in the midst of them, lay the old sailor whom he had last seen alive on the deck of the sinking ship, with a smile on his face —dead.

JACK PLAYNE’S STORY.

This story.is'nofcabouf myself at all, though it is written as if it was going to be. I am a man that knows the boy the story is abou£., I am only Jack Playne. He was a very different sort of a fellow from me. His mother was the widow Hennings. His father-had been dead six or seven years.wheri this history begins. They came to Greenbush a good many summers before he died, and after that the widder made up her mind to stay there. You see, Hennings didn’t leave much —just a couple of thousand on a life insurance and a cottage and an acre in Greenbush. All the rest was used up in settling the estate. But you’d.never guess, nOt from her talk, that he didn’t own a private bank. She talked about the convenience of a fixed income. “ One could calculate, so exactly! hpw far it would go and never be disappointed.” And she would groan over the income tax, when, poor thing, it never came nigh her. You see, she came of an excellent family. In early times, one of her ancestors was Governor, and a great uncle had been a Senator, before it was “ low ” to be a; Senator, That is, she used to say so."' I don’t know about it. I have always had to work hard and live plain, and there was always the taxes hot and heavy, whatever else happened, . and “Senator ” always looked high=.enough. for me -And in most all the families of her connection the boys went to college, and the girls to boarding school and spoke French and played the piano., Npt, that-1 have heard of there -being much money in the family, but they paid their way and studied hard and got to be lawyers, or doctors, or preachers. Never none of ’em downright workers with their hands for a living.- - ‘ ! ; One reason thewidow stuck to Green bush was the school. The teacher was excellent, and, as it cost nothing, nothing could be better for her son, Horatio—“ Rash ” for short—“ until,” as she’d say, “ he’s ready to prepare for college.” Seems to me I can see her now. The same black satin dress winter ,and summer..- , In winter, a threadbare black cloak; in summer a net shawl; darned in some places very nicely, and black rails, and the same black satin bonnet,' made over and over, once a year through it all. She had some lace she put on when she went to tea at. the doctor’s or the squire’s and a set of jet and gold ornaments, which were very old, to fasten the lace and swing in the ears. And the Widow Hennings was a splen did woman ! tall, straight as an Indian, and head well set back on the shoulders. I often watched her go up the broad aisle, and thpught I’d like to have tested her with a plumb line, she was so straight. But Eliza says that I’m forever carrying the shop with me. Then she’d a wonderful high, hooked nose, and eyebrows that arched over her black eyes like the front door of an old mansion house, and hardly a gray hair in her head. Must have been an awful cross for such a fine-looking woman to give up dress, and all the pomps and vanities of this world to live in such a plain way in Greenbush. Dear heart! she never kept • no help, only once a fortnight' Bettie Doolittle did out the heaviest of her washing. The little things, such as handkerchiefs and collars, she did herself, and called it her “ fine wash." It looked like a doll baby’s washing day. The cottage ; itself was a cheaply built, plain--furnished affair with com mon woodwork; but often I found time to do little jobs for her in slack times; and what with the garden and the interest on the life insurance, and the water color and wax flower lessons she gave to the Squire’s wife and the Doctor’s daughters she got along. She often made presents of em broidery to brides and babies, and pre sents were made to her. Once she got a barrel of winter apples, and often a bushel of pears or something like that. On the whole she got along. If any body came in while she was making her crocheting or her tatting or her em broidery—not an inch of which ■ she ever used at home—she would talk about how much more ladylike it was to have nice underclothing; and; plain dresses, than “ outside show and rags.” Eliza used to say that the things on her clothes line were mended till they were real curiosities. However, they were better than debts, and didn’t tangle her steps like mortgages, for the place was clear and ; her own; ’ For my part, I never could see the sense of such com mon sort of a person as Queen Victoria living in such style and such a natural born queen as Widow Hennings work ing so hard and faring so plain. But as for Rash. Not but that he was the bqsflpfjsons,; Jo, help, ini everything 1 'she wanted done. And didn’t he put into his lessons when he found how his mother’s heart was sot on his learning. And good and patient he’d listen while she’d tell of the old Governor, and the Senator and the teachers, and the professor, and how anxious,she.was to have ■ him study hard. She’d been well educated her self, and taught him some Latin and French, and he wasn’t a bad scholar. But whatever he got from it didn’t seem to be what he’d choose. He’d study hard and keep up in his classes, and every spare minute he’d got he’d be fussing round in my shop. He’d pick up bits of half and quarter inch stuff and notch and whittle and carve and fit and turn out the neatest little toys, chairs, tables, and such like, that you *yer saw. He gave one to my little

Bess the winter she broke her leg—she’s got it yet ! It’s like a chair I once saw in a church - carved Gothic back and arms, and a table to match. Some times it has been all I could do to get him to give enough attention to his book, he’d be so busy with his work. I kept a strict lookout for that. I’ve got such little learning myself that I know its value ; and he never missed a lesson on my account. I’d seen too many make a love of whittling and talk a mere excuse for idling away precious time; and, after all, there wasn’t no genius of any account. Horatio was getting to be a very large boy, when some connection died and left him a matter o’ SSOO. It was to be used at his mother’s discretion, either kept till he was twenty-one, or spent, on his education. Mrs. Hennings decided at once that it should help him through college. She could help out the balance some how, and it seemed like as if the good old days of the Governor had come again, when she could talk about colleges and so forth. So one evening as he was sitting by her, reciting his Latin to her, she just began the subject, and Rash told me all about it next day. Rash said he never saw no one so beat as his mother was, when he told her she shouldn’t touch that money, but just as soon as I thought him old enough he was going to learn a trade. “ A trade ! What trade ? ” “ Why, a'carpenter and joiner, to be aure v , ,l love'that : sort of work, and Jack Playne says I’li do well at it.” “ But, my dear son, what ever made you think of learning that trade.?. There never was a carpenter in bur family, and, in fact I don’t know that they ever amount to much.” “ What, ray dear mother,” said Rash, “ you forget; wasn’t our Saviour one ; and don’t that make the craft honorable for ever?” “ True, my dear child. Yours is a just reproof; and yet our Saviour did not choose his humble calling. It was a lesson of obedience which he was taught by submitting to his parents’ necessities. His work had been fixed and fitted for him before the foundation of the world. But for you, my dear boy, I had hoped to see you in the chair of the professor.” “ I’m afraid, dear mother,” said Rash, quite humbly, “ that I’d rather make the chair than sit in it. I know that it is not so great a work, but it is my work, which, after all, is the im portant thing. And if I make the chair strong and well, and handsome, and easy, I don’t see why I’m not just as respectable as he is. It’s my work to build the pulpit for another man to preach in ; and we may as well accept the fact. But, mother, don’t you want to see some of my work ? things I’ve done odd spells.” For his mother had bowed her head on her hand, and her face was growing set, and her lips showed a white thread. She wasn’t one of the crying sort. I hate a weeper; but they don’t begin to be as unmanageable as the stony-eyed sort, that neither speak nor cry. In .a. minute or two, Rash came down out of the woodshed loft with his arms full. There was a set of toy bed room furniture, and a ship, full rigged. And, best of all, was a work box for his mother, inlaid with different kinds of wood with a raised oval of apple tree wood on the lid, carved out into a wreath of the finest fern leaves inclos ing her initials. It was just as neat work as if one of the New York or Boston men had done it, and Rash was just a boy, and altogether self-taught in the way of carving. “It’s most a pity to show this to night. 1 was going to keep this for your birthday, day after to-morrow, but it seemed only right and natural to show it now, when we were talking the thing over.” Now, set as Mrs. Hennings was against Rash’s learning a trade, she could not help admiring his work, for it was so neat, not a blotch any where. For one day when he was making it, says I to him : “ Now, Rash, whatever you’ve got in hand don’t you stop to think if you can afford to do it just as well lor the money you’re to get for it. There’s one thing you can’t afford, and that is to bungle. It hurts you more than those you work for. Don’t ever do anything that you can’t warrant ’pon honor.” And I’ll never forget how his eyes sparkled ; and he told me how the cathedrals of the middle ages were built by men who made religion of their work, and built as if they were worshipping, and dared not cheat the Lord, and that in them the back of an ornament or statue is finished, though nobody can see it without the greatest pains, with just as much neatness as if it was to show in the public square, and that was the way he meant to work and to live. As I said, the widow was pleased in spite of herself. “ And where did you get this pretty design ?” said she, pointing to the fern wreath.” “ Why, I wanted a pattern of some sort, and just then Jessie Playne came along and she’s got such a wreath as this twisted around her hat. I thought it was none the worse for being so near at hand ; and so I just draughted it off and whittled it out. See —here is the draught.” And with that he took it out of the box. Now, the widow, though she is as proud as Lucifer, is nobody’s fool; and she sees, plain enough that there was more than a common jack of a carpenter in her boy; for. she could draw and paint in water colors herself, and was called a good hand at it. So the long and short of it was she gave her consent to Rash going into ray shop to learn my trade at the end of the school term. And then she. sent Rash upstairs with his treasures, and went to bed. (To he concluded to-morrow.)

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1880.

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,Erinted : andpublished ; daily, ‘at the Guardian. ' V ‘ Office, Saunders’ residing atTancred street, Ashburton, • , -‘- i - • ,• Friday, November ?



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GRANT, Member of Royal College of Surgeons, England, and of the Medical Boards of Victoria and New South Wales; also regis tered in New Zealand, OCULIST, AURIST, & SPECIALIST, (From Europe), may be consulted upon all Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and Throat, Deafness, Noises in the Head, Defective Sight, Squinting, Cataract, Amaurosis, Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Loss of Eye lashes, Inflammation, and all Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and Throat treated upon new and scientific principles. DR. GRANT has arrived in Christ church, and may be CONSULTED at his Consulting Rooms, 4 HEREFORD TERRACE, Hereford Street East, Christchurch, Near St. John’s Church, Hours of attendance: Morning, 10 till 1; afternoon, 2 till 5. Saturdays, morning only. Dr Grant’s consultation rooms, during the four months of his successful practice in Auckland, were crowded to excess, and attention is confidently and particularly requested to the following cases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and other special af fections' 211 Queen street, Auckland, July 23, 1880. Dr. Grant. —Dear sir, —I have to give you thanks for the, great benefit to my hearing since I have been under your care.—l am, &c., Robert Campbell. Ponsonby, July 23. Under Dr. Grant’s treatment I am very much improved in my hearing, and should recommend any one to try the same.— M. A. Parker. Tamaki West, near St. John’s College, Auckland, July 23, 1880. Dr Grant has greatly improved my. hearing during the time I have been under his care.— Thos. Churches. Brookside, Pakakura Valley, July 23, 1880. I was under Dr. Grant’s treatment for squinting, and was completely cured in ten days. I would earnestly recommend any persons suffering from diseases of the ; eyes to make a trial of Dr Grant, feeling sure that he would benefit them as he has done me.— John Sinclairs, Jun. Ponsonby road, Hope Town, Auckland, June 16, 1880. I. have been under Dr. Grant’s care since May 26, for great deaf ness, for more than twelve years, and am about seventy (70) years of age. Dr. Grant has removed a large and small polypus from my years, and I can hear much better, having greatly improved under his care, for which I am very thankful. — Charles Lowe. Horne’s Estate, New North road, Auck land, June 16, 1880. I have been buffer ing from a severe local disease. Dr. Grant operated upon me on Saturday last, and I am now quite well, although I had been in an ill state of health for four years.' — Charles Muller. Cross street, Newton, Auckland, June 17, 1880, I have been nearly blind for over seven years, and unable to work at my trade (a confectioner). On the first day of this month I went under Dr. Grant’s care, and already see very much better in this short space of time.— John Whittle. Parnell, June 14, 1880. Dr. Grant has just cured me of a long-standing deafness of more than ten years, for which I am very thankful, having tried many other doc tors without success. —Maria Ji Treeman. Auckland, August’6, 1880. I have been deaf in the left ear for four years and in the right also. On August 2 I was treated by Dr. Grant, and am now quite well, being able to hear as well as ever I did. Arthur Parkinson, Farmer, Opotiki. Maugere, Onehunga, Auckland, August 26, 1880. For thirty-five years I have been suffering with diseased eyes. Since August 5 I have been under Dr. Grant’s care, and am rapidly recovering. —J. Nicholls. Symonds street, Auckland, August 27, 1880. I have been deaf for eighteen years (since I: was four years old) the drums of both years having ulcerated away. ; I am still improving under Dr. Grant’s care, and can hear much better now', sometimes very well.— Margaret Sanderson. Auckland Lunatic Asylum, Whan, Aug. 28, 1880. This is to certify that I have been under Dr. Grant’s care for hardness of hearing from the 13th instant, and find I am so far improved as to hear the ticking of a watch, which I could not do before I



Medical. put myself under his treatment. lam over sixty years old.—John King. Auckland, September 6, 1880. I have been under Dr. Grant’s treatment since August 18 for deafness of both ears. lam returning home to Tauranga this day, quite cured, and can hear as well as ever I did. —Sydney Hoben. , OPINIONS OP THE PRESS. We can conscientiously recommed those suffering from deafness or other ailments that Dr. Grant has made a special study, of, to pay him a visit, when, if curable patients, they may certainly expect relief. An. instance came under our notice on Thursday, in the case of a man named Charles Swanson, who had been very deaf for three years, but, after ten days’ treatment, can now hear perfectly even the lowest whisper. The cure is a rather remarkable one, as he had been under the care of many medical men, but has re ceived no benefit whatever from their treatment —New Zealander, Dec. 27,1879. Mr. Earnest D'Egville Michau called at our office yesterday, and stated that he had been blind with the light eye all his lifetime. Hearing about Dr. Grant, the oculist, who is now on a visit to this city, he determined to give him a trial. He had only been under Dr. Grant s treat ment ten or eleven days when he found that he could see large objects at some dis tance. Mr. Michau states that he had been under the treatment of some of the best medical men at home, but had not received,the least benefit. We are at all times chary of accepting details of “ Wonderful cures,” but the young man who called at our office appearei to be telling the truth, and was exceedingly grateful to Dr. Gant for the relief which he has already experienced. —New Zea land Times, Dec. 25, 1879. Dr. Grant is also SPECIALIST in the DISEASES of WOMEN and CHIL DREN. Dr. Grant has recently effected a very remarkable cure in the case of Mrs. D- Evans, of Kumara, who has been under, his treatment for deafness since Feb. 14, last. Mrs. Evans has been deaf in both ears for a very long period—no less than thirty years—her affliction having been caused by a fever, from which she suffered severely. Since that time she has been almost totally deaf, for she could only hear the the loudest sounds. Since she has been under Dr. Grant’s treatment her hearing has gradually improved, so that now she can hear plainly conversation in an ordinary tone of voice. She will re turn in a few days to Kumara perfectly well, and in possession of the full faculty of which she has been so long deprived.— West Coast Times, March 10, 1880. One of the employees in the Public Works office here has sent us the follow ing testimonial to the skill of Dr. Grant. He says “I wish to let you know that Dr. Grant has greatly improved, the hear ing of one of my ears, the membrane of which was injured some six years ago. I may add that two surgeons, whom I con sulted a short time ’ago, considered the case incurable.” Dr, Grant has also been very successful in several difficult cases of disease of the eye. —Hokitika Times, March 23, 1880. There are amongst Dr. Grant’s success ful eye cases at Hokitika, a young lady, at J, Jack’s, Esq., the Mayor, cured, by operation, of squinting; and Mrs. Wavent, operation for artificial pupil.



Nelson, May 11, 1880. “I, Thos. Adams, have been under Dr. Grant’s treatment for deafness of the left ear, from which I have suffered twc years, the result of a severe tropical fever. I find my hearing greatly improved in the short time—since April 30. — Thos. Adams.” 428 Advice to mothers.—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child, suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to the chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless ; it produces natural, quiet sleep by reliev ing the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as bright as a button. ’.’ It has been in use in America, and is highly recommended by medical men. It is very pleasant to take ; it sooths the child ; it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves 'wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentry and diarrhoea, whether arising from eething or other causes. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and see that “ Curtis and Perkins, New York and London,” is on the outside wrapper. No mother should be without it. Sold by all medicine dealers, at Is. l£d. —Depot, 493, Oxford street. TUHO is Mrs. WINSLOW I As this • ’ question is frequently asked, we shall simply say that she is a lady who for upwards of thirty years has untireingly devoted her time and , talents as a female physician and nurse, principally among children. • She has especially studied the constitution and wants of this numerous class, and, as a result of this effort and practical knowledge obtained in a lifetime as nurse and physician, she has com pounded a SOOTHING SYRUP for Chil dren. It operates like magic, giving rest and health, and is, moreover, sure to regulate the bowels. In consequence of this article, Mrs. Winslow is becoming world-renouned as a benefactor of her race. Children certainly do rise up and bless-her. : Especially is this the case in this city. Vast quantities of the Soothing Syrup are daily sold and used here. We think Mrs Winslow has immortalised her name by this invaluable article, and we sincerely believe that thousands of chil dren have been saved from an early grave by its timely use, and that millions yet unborn will share its benefits and unite in calling her, blessed. No mother has dis charged her duty to her suffering little one, in our opinion, until she hasgiven it the benefit of Mrs. Winslow’s, Soothing Syrup. Try it mothors, try it now.— Ladies’ Visitor, New York City. "TTALUABLE DISCOVERY for the V HAIR. A very nicely perfumed Hairdressing, called THE MEXICAN HAIR RE NEWER, now being sold by most Che mists and perfumers througout the coun try, at 3s. fid. per bottle, is fast super-’ ceding all the old restorers and dyes for the purpose of changing grey or white hair to its natural original color, for it will positively restore the hair in every case of greyness to its original color, with out dyeing it or leaving that offensive smell which most of the hair preparations of the day do; This preparation has never been known’to fail in restoring the hair to its natural color and gloss in from eight to twelve days. It promotes growth and ■ prevents the hair falling out, eradicating dandruff’, and leaving the scalp in a clean, ‘ healthy condition; It imparts .peculiar vitality to the roots of the hair, restoring it to its youthful freshness and vigor. Daily applications of this preparation for a week or two will surely restore faded, grey, or white hair to its natural color and richness. It is not a dye, nor does it con tain any coloring matter or offensive substance ■whatever. Hence it does not soil the hands, the scalp, or even white linen, but produces the color within the substance of the hair. Read the follow ing from Mr. Nathan Berry, Chemist,’ Walkden : “One of my customers told me the other day he had had grey hair for thirty-five years, and after using one bottle of the Mexican Hair Renewer I sold him, it was restored to and kept its natural' color. ”j It may be had of any respectable Chemist, Perfumer, or Dealer in toilet articles in the kingdom, at 3s. fid. per bottle.—Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP, No. 493, Oxford street, London.



Medical. OCKLE’S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS— These Pills consist of a careful and peculiar admixture of the best and mild est vegetable aperients, with the pure ex tract of the flowers of the camomile. They will be found a most efficacious remedy for derangement of the digestive organs, and for torpid action of the liver and bowels, which produce indigestion and the several varieties of bilious and liver complaints. They speedily remove the irritation and feverish state of the stomach, allay spasm, correct the morbid, condition of the liver and organs subser vient to digestion, promote a due and healthy secretion of bile, and relieve the constitution of all gouty matter and other impurities, which, by circulating in the blood, most injuriously affect the action of the kidneys ; thus, by removing the causes productive of so much discomfort, they restore the energies of both body and mind. To those who indulge in the luxuries of the table these pills will prove highly useful, occasioning no pain in their action, unless they meet with an unusual quantity of acrid bile and acid matter in the stomach and bowels. To Europeans on their arrival in India or China they are recommended as a preservative against the fatal disorders peculiar to tropical climates. Their occasional use, if com bined with the strictest attention to diet, will be frequently found to remove at [ once, by their influence over the secre tions, that congestive and unhealthy con dition of the liver which is so often the earliest antecedent of severe febrile and constitutional disturbance. It must be understood that these _ pills are not recommended as containing any new or dangerously active ingredients; on the contrary, they are characterised by a remarkable simplicity of combination, and whatever merit they may be found to possess depends as much upon the selec tion of pure drugs, and the unusual labor and attention bestowed upon their subse quent preparation, as upon the acknow ledged peculiarity of their composition,- They are not recommended as,a panacea, nor are, they adapted to all complaints ; but as a mild and efficacious aperient and tonic in the various forms of indigestion, it will not, perhaps, be an exaggeration to state that they have been resorted to under all systems of diet, changes of cli mate, or atmospheric alternations with an extraordinary degree of success for upwards of seventy-eight years. This celebrated family aperient may be had throughout the United Kingdom in boxes at Is l|d, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, and lls Od, as well as in India, China, New Zealand, and the Australian Colonies.



Medical. S TEEDMAN’S SOOTHING POWDERS FOR CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTICN TO PURCHASERS. The value of this well-known Family Medi cine has been largely tested in all parts of the world) and by all grades of society,, for upwards of FIFTY YEARS. Its well-earned exten sive sale has induced SPURIOUS IMITA TIONS, some of which in OUTWARD APPEARANCE so closely resemble the ori ginal as to have deceived many purchasers. The proprietor therefore feels it due ,to the public to give a special caution against the use of SUCH IMITATIONS. Purchasers are therefore requested carefully to observe the four following' .distinctive characteristics, without which none , are genuine : ‘ . .... . Ist—ln every case the : words ‘ JOHN STEEDMAN, CHEMIST, WALWORTH, SURREY, are engraved oh the Government Stamp affixed to each packet. i •: > ■'*. 2nd — Each Single Powder has directions lor the dose, and the words, John Stef.dman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, printeddhereon. 3rd—The name, Steed man, is always spelt with two EE’s. 4th —The manufacture is carried on solely at Walworth, Surrey. Sold in Packets by all Chemists and Medi cine Vendors. Sold by Kempthorke, Prosser and Co.,' Auckland. ' ’ 6 j J)0 WELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. J)0 WELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. JpOWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED.' Extraordinary testimo . NIALS. POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. Duo de Montabor writes : ■“ Chateau de Montabor, Aveyro'n. Sir, —Having suffered for some time from an obstinate cough, accompanied with fever, continuous head-aches, J ‘and sleepless nights, I resolved after hayhig,. vainly tried several : other niedicines, ftp have recourse to your 1 BALSAM of ANISEED. I cannot resist,, Hr* rthe desire of making you acquainted with the really marvelous results which I derived from it. From the first dose I felt great relief, the bad symptoms grew feebler, the irritation of the throat was calming down, and I recovered the sleep which-had'! nearly left me. The third dose delivered me completely, and I am now completely restored to health. Receive, sir, with the expression of my gratitude the assurance of my distinguished sentiments. . DUG : de; montabor ; HER MAJESTY S GUN BOAT‘ NETLEY.’ Wick, Scotland: Dear Sir, — Having had a most ; distressing and severe cough, which caused riie many sleepless nights and restless : days, I was. recommended by his LORDSHIP ■ the EARL of CAITHNESS to try your most invaluable Balsam ! of • Aniseed, and I can assure you, with the first dose, I found immediate relief, even without having to suspend my various duties; and the first small; bottle-com pletely cured me, therefore I have the greatest confidence in fully recommend ing it to the million. Signed, W. LINZELL, H.M.G.B. NETLEY. For coughs, bronchitis, in FLUENZA, COLDS. &c, L OR COUGHS, BRONCHITIS, IN* FLUENZA, GOLDS, &c, OWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED.—' The effects of one teaspoonful taken in a ' little water before going to bed is extraordinary; , No family should, be without it in the winter.. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World, is i'/td and_ 2s 3d per f per bottle; a great saving in taking family' r bottles, ns each. Established over 50 years. Prepared only by THOMAS ■■ POWELL, :, Blackfriars Road, London. 1 ■ ‘ POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. 1 “Sir,—l have for a long time suffered from a severe cough and tried all manner of 1 : remedies. Dr. Libcrecht advised POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEEDit cured me after ; a few days. You are at liberty to use this.-: letter in hopes that others may benefit by,it.— I am, Sir, Yours. &c., ALBERT COUNT POTOCKI.” For coughs, bronchitis,' in fluenza, COLDS, &c. OR COUGHS, BRONCHITIS,; IN FLUENZA, COLDS, &c. - ■ For coughs, bronchitis; in FLUENZA, COLDS, &c.. pOWELL’S BALSAM OF ANISEED WILL LOOSEN the PHLEGM imme diately.—The : Dean of Westminster’s Verger writes: “I was advised to try the Balsam of Aniseed; I did, and h'aye found' great relief. It is most comforting in allaying irritation and giving strength to the voice.” Lionel Brough, Esq., -the; eminent actor, : writes : I think it an invaluablevmedicine for members of my. profession, and. have, always recommended it to my, brother, . and sister artistes.” V- ... ' RULY an EXTRAORDINARY ;EX PECTORaNT.—Mr. Edward M. Ullett, of Bury, Hunts., writes to Messrs. Palmer £ Son, Ramsay Having been in the habit of using Powell’s Balsam of Aniseed for a great ; number of years, I have great pleasure.in bear- -j itig testimony to its incomparable'effecfs'as an'- expectorant. I always find a single dose gives immediate relief, and a small bottle effects a perfect cure.” -•< - r ;. : \r ; V .'-T • A SK for! POWELL’S BALSAM' bf ANISEED ' 1 * ' 1 SOLD by all CHEMISTS and STORE KEEPERS. Observe the Trade Mark, “Lion, Net, and Mouse.” Wholesale Agents ih the Australian and New Zealand Colonies -Elliot Brothers ; Evers & Solomon ; Felton. Grimwalde, . &"Co. ; P. and S. Falk, Paulding & Co. , Rocke, Tompsit, & Co.; Rosenthall &■' Co.; Rempthorne, Prosser, &. Co.; Hoffenung & Co. ; Hemmons, Laws, & Co. ; Berkley, Taylor, l & Co.; and all other wholesale houses. Proprietor— Thomas Powell, Blackfriars Road London, : ,y; t ‘/I c THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, : Price One Penny, '' AN be: obtained from the' following ; ! Agents, who will receive ordex^-; - -’ 1 Thja Tmngle ; i . ',i Bast street East street ; ; EastStreet' Wakahuu ]■ ' • -';• Seafield - 1 ' 1 ’ Wakanui Cre?i.,, Seafield 1 ' '•*' ,l} ‘ KyH. ... " . ~,' v B*kaia’ >Si ‘ -*■- Wihslow Westerfield , . ‘Mount-Sofflfeii;’ Spread'fEajgli / .‘ J -L'n^tsby;* s '- 13 sWatHtOri',’ ' ’ ’ hMeihyeiU-'"! . H. M. Jones F. Clark D. Williamson O. Oarstens ■- .1 : Mr. McLauglan M. Atkinson : G. Leadley ... La wry and Son 1 J. Lambie Wm. Cox W. Harris .... E. H. Butler T. E. Tomlinson ... P, Tisch i A. R. Markham & Go. M. Hudson ' J. Bo wick Morgan and Hibba Intending.Subscribers’’ will' please!, fill. tip '. forms, which J cau be obtained' from' of , the above Agents. They’Will 'also .oblige ~, by stating on the back; ofvthe. jmjer.lp V, which agent they pay their sub'scnplions.



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