have been sworn m. Lawyer's clerks have offered their services m a body. The iegal profession has subscribed £3000 to the employers' fund. Dalgety and Co., of London, have cabled, sending £10,000 to the Em ployers' fund. Employers, pastoralists, steamship owners, and colliery proprietors next j week consider proposals emanating from the Trades Hall for a conference. The city was again lighted by gas last night. Sydney. September 2. The Orient mail steamer left up to time The Mararoa is discharging by the help of non-union labor. Fully one hundred men are employed on the Union Company's wharf. The stevedores have formed an As sociation which has the full support of the southern colliers and Steamship Owners' Association. After September Bth the Gas Com pany will cut off the supply between sunrise and sunset. The Directors state they may have to call on the public to forego the use of gas alto gether m order to maintain street lighting during the strike.

AUCKLAND.

Auckland, September 2. The scene alongside the Australia last night was a very animated one. Lawyers, merchants, soft goods men, and storemen worked "four hour" shifts at both hatches, and the cargo was all out early this morning. Great enthusiasm web shown. A large number of people were willing to work, but could not find room. The crowd kept back behind the barricade erected by the police. The Arawata arrived this morning from Fiji with large cargo of bananas, sugar, etc. The crew at once, on learning of the strike, gave 24 hours' notice to leave the ship, but consented to unload the vessel's cargo, which is mainly perishable stuff, to day, provided no non-Union laborers were employed The officers will pro bably give notice to-day. All the chief stewards remain loyal to the Company- The Australia's officers gave notice to day. The "Kamo coal miners at Whangarei have been ordered to refuse coal to the Union Company's boats. The Wa'rarapa arrived from the South at eleven o'clock, and was berthed quietly, without any disturbance. She leaves for Sydney to-morrow evening. She is being discharged by non-unionist labor. A large force of police are on the wharf, but things are very quiet. The officers of the Arawata gave 24 hours notice to-day to leave the ship to morrow. The officers of the Australia struck to day. The officers of the Orawatti, at One', hunga, strike this afternoon.

WELLINGTON.

Wellington, September 2. The Butchers' Union has given the Gear Company notice not to supply the Union Company. The storemen have been instructed not to handle any goods to and from the Union Company's steamers. They will be called out if asked to do so.

TIMARU.

Timaetj, September 2. At an interview betwten the agent of Ashmore and the secretary of the Wharf Laborers Union the latter admitted he withdrew men under irritation at the Employers resolutions on Saturday, and asked that the men be allowed to go back to work. The agent having agreed to give work to the crew, would not take it from them, but offered to allow the gang to work another hatch. The secre tary replied they would not work the same ship with non-union men.

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London, August 30 to 31. The tubers m Ireland are partially rotten. Offers of assistance hare been received from Canada. The potato blight is spreading m Cheshire, Flintshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. By a fire at RatclifFe wharves 1000 tons of coal were destroyed. The men discharged from the Egeria are agitating for a revision of the sentences passed on the mutineers. They dilate on the tyranny of the Court Martial, and assert that witjj nesses were terrorised. It is unlikely that the proposal to work the docks on co-operative prin ciples will come to anything, both the shipowners and dockers being opposed to it. The rumors of disaffection against Mr Parnell are revived, and Mr Davitt's name is included among the malconcents. The latter is represented as saying he had hoped the spectacle of the Irish begging for assistance had come to an end after the last famine. A varied system of crop culture is m his opinion the only hope for Ireland] otherwise the Tory panacea of emigra* tion is inevitable. Pariß, August 30. Foreign wheat is to be excluded from the French army contracts. New Yokk, August 30. An American cruiser has ordered the sealers carrying out their calling iii Behring Sea to desist. The sealers offered no resistance, and took their departure. Constantinople, August 31. The Sultan is furious at the escape of Moussa Bey. It is feared that further agitation m Armenia will be the result. Washington, August 31. It is probable Mr Kinley's Tariff Bill will be shelved, the sugar diffi culty being the barrier.

AUSTRALIAN

Sydney, Sept. 1. Kemp emphatically declines to row any one until after the match with O'Connor. Walker's sawmill at Balmain. has been destroyed by fire. Damage esti mated at £8000. i The Rev. Mr Gardiner has returned to Sydney to attend the Presbytery and answer the charges brought against him. It is stated that he will probably appeal against the decision of the Divorce Court, which granted a decree nisi to his wife. The Presby tery meets to-morrow. Melbourne, September 1. The "Argus" has an article to-day dealing with the JS'ew Zealand Rail way Commissioners' anirual report, m which it states that m railways, as m other matters, it looks as if the sister colony hud fairly turned the corner

and is to be congratulated accordingly. Comparing the New Zealand railway returns with the Victorian, the "Argus" states that working expenses are six per cent, less than last year's Victorian rates, and that the lines now pay three per cent., while ours this year give very little more.

INTERPROVINCIAL

Wellington, September 1. At the Supreme Court the Grand Jury found no bills against Fredk. Gerreat, felony, and George A. Barley libel. Harry Walters alias Dutch Harry, break ing and entering was acquitted.

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[per press association.] (Received September 2, 10.30 a.m.) POLITICAL. Melbotjkne, September 2. t Mr Dow, who left the Cabinet m consequence of his connection with the Premier Building Society, has been re-appointed Minister of Lands. Mr Deaken becomes Solicitor-General, and Mr Patterson, m addition to Customs, takes the Postmaster-Generalship.

A HIDDEN ROCK.

The Govei-nment steamer has been unable to find the rock upon which the Carlisle was wrecked.

THE RABBIT PEST.

Adelaide, September 2. The earliest sown and most promis ing wheat m North Eastern, hundreds been litterally eaten down by swarms of rabbits.

DAMAGE BY PHENOMINAL RAINS.

Sydney, September 2. The Minister of Pnblic Works pro poses to borrow a quarter of a million from the loan funds, m order to repair main roads of the colony, which have suffered considerable damage from the recent phenomenal rains.

A TIDAL WAVE.

The steamer Curnica had a peculiar experience on her last voyage. After leaving Gibraltar a tidal wave struck the vessel, sweeping her decks, and doing a large amount of damage. Nearly every one on board was more or less injured, and some so seriously that they had to be landed at Naples. Many persons had limbs broken.

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[per press association.] Bfew JFtuWic I>il»rii»ry Wellington, Sept. 2. The Public Works Committee of the City Council will recommend the Cor poration to bring the Public Libraries Act into force ; and invite designs for suitable buildings, two storeys, m brick. First premium £53, second £25-_

A New Atlantic Record

New York mail advices state that the Ham burg-American steamship Columbia added lustre to her fame recently by creating a new record from Southampton. She made the royage from the Needles to Sandy-Hook lighthouse m 6 days 16 hours and 2 minutes, covering 3050 knots at an average speed of 19 knots an hour. This eclipses her best previous performance by 2 hours and 18 minutes, and is equal to a voyage of over a short course from Queensland of 6 days 1 hour and 30 minutes. There is now only one steamship afloat with a record superior to the Columbia's, and that is the Inman Liner the City of Paris. The hopeful Ham burg-American Company do not expect the Columbia to equal this, but they think the new Normanuia, constructed by the Fair field Company, will do it with some time to spare. The Columbia was built by Laird Brothers at Birkenhead. The City of Paris has just 7400 more horse-power than the Columbia, the maximum capacity of whose 1 engines is 12,500. The daily runs of the Columbia were 418, 460, 459, 470, 469, 492, and 282. Sha burned 270 tons of coal a day, or about 80 less than the City of Paris usually consumed on a fast voyage. The revolutions of her propeller were 78 a minute. For several hours she made nearly 20£ kncts an hour. Had she not run into a dense fog when within half a day of New York she mi^n ihave reduced the time of. her voyage b several hours.

THE SIGNALMAN ON THE MID LAND.

There are probably about a million men employed m various capacities on the Railways of Great Britain—a number large enough, if they were soldiers, to overrun Europe. Upon the intelligence, fidelity, and physical condition of this vast army depend the lives of multitudes who are constantly travelling by rail. Any sudden and serious disability happen ing to one of them may result m a disaster which would put hundreds of families m mourning. Accustomed as it is to safe and swift conveyance from point to point, the public scarcely realises this fact. The following hrief narrative, which is strictly true, will therefore be read with interest: On the midland railway, twenty-three miles south of Carlisle, there is a little station called Culgaith. Here there is a signal-box m which Signalman Andrew Agge is to be found on duty daily. As is the case with all other signal-boxes, this one contains the levers and the usual complicated electric and mechanical con trivances for making and receiving signals. Mr Agge is on duty nearly every day, and takes his luncheons without leaving his post. He is a sturdy man of thirty five, m good health, and no complaint has ever been made against him by the Com pany or by the public ; yet an incident occurred a few years ago that came near depriving him of his position and his life. For some time he had not felt well, the worst and most dangerous phase of hip indisposition being a kind of giddiness that would seize him unexpectedly and as he described it, " set everything to moving and twisting round and round." Thts doctor told him frankly that it was a symptom of a .still more radical complaint brought on by too much confinement, and by his irregular habits of eating and sleeping, and that he had better abandon his frork for a while, and try a change of scene.

But this was easier said than done. He had a family to support, and couldn't afford the luxury of a vacation. He knew no oLher business, and could not risk the loss of his place. His work was always done, however, no matter how he felt. But it is only fair to say he had many anxious hours over it. His aimient, which he had discovered to be indigestion and dyspepsia, now set up more alarming symptoms. A physician at Appleby as sured Agere that there was serious trouble with his°kidneys and bladder. "It is," said the doctor to the Signalman, " the result of the condition of your digestion. Your blood is poisoned by your stomach, and every organ of the body is crippled by it." This was a miserable outlook for Agge, who went back to Culgaith with small courage for his work. He took hold, though, as well as he could, and kept it up until one morning several weeks afterwards. Ho was m his box as usual when of a sudden a sharp pain t-hot

through him as though he had been stabbed with a knife. He tumbled down on the locker m the signal-box, and lay there all the forenoon m acute distress and agony. For the time his work was a secondary consideration." Unable to re main m that position any longer, he laid down and rolled on the floor. The pain m his hips and back was so intense that he compared it to being cut with dull knives, and pierced with hot irons. Agge was alone when the attack came, and as nobody except railway officials are allowed m the signal boxes, it was some time be fore his plight was discovered. Finally, h»weyer, the station-master came m, the neighbors were summoned, and the suffer ing man was put into a trap and taken to his house, half a mile away. There he was ill for weeks, part of the time un conscious. When the physicians had avowedly got to the end of their resources it was agreed that the signalman's end was only a matter of a very little time.

This was the situation when a singular thing happened. Two or three years before, when Agge was feeling the earlier symptoms of his disorder, he had taken a medicine that helped him ; getting better, he put the bottle aside, still half full, and forgot it altogether. Now, as he was; almost m a dying condition, his memory flashed up one day, and he distinctly recalled where he had put it. A search was made, and then it was found. The prostrate Signalman began using it, and to the astonishment of neighbours and doctors, m a few days was able to get out of doors. We may mention that the medicine was the well [ known preparation, Mother Seigel's Cura tive Syrup, although to advertise the article is not the chief motive for this little narrative. As a matter of fact, Signalman Agge kept on doctoring him self with it, and it cured him, be its nature what it may. He went back to his box long ago, and this incident is printed m order that the reader may know more of the character and experi ence of a large and faithful body of public servants.

THE AS&EtiMOt GfrAMlAfr, WESDAY, SEPfEMBEH J r 1800.



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THE FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF CANTERBURY, LIMITED. (To be registered under " The Companies Act, 1882.") —ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.— CAPITAL.. £100,000, | Divided into 20,000 Shares at £5 each, i Payable as follows :— ( Ten Shillings per share on application, Twenty Shillings per share on allotment, Twenty Shillings per share m one month, if required. Balance, if re quired, by calls of Five Shillings per share at intervals of not less than three months. Pkovisional Directors. Messrs S. Bailey* W. Boag* F. H. Brittan*, M. S. Campbell*, J. Campbellt, C. Ensor*, J. Gammack*, J. Grigg, J. Gough* J. Haydon* J. Hardiet, R. L. Higgins*, W. Henderson*, R. B. Holds worth*, J. J. Herrick*, W. B. Howellt, A. B. Inwood*, J. Keilandt, D. M'Millan* F. D. S. Neave* A. Par sons*, J. Paget, H. W. Peryman*, J. Bennie*, R. EL Rhodes*, E. P. Scaly*, J. Talbott, J. Wilsont. * Directors of the N.Z. Farmers Co operative Association of Canterbury, Limited, Christchurch. t Directors of the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association, Timaru. Bankers ; Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch ; National Bank, Timaru. Solicitors : Harper and Co., Christ church. Secretary, pro tern : A. H. Turnbull. Applications for -share must be made upon a form to be obtained from the Secretary pro tern., at the offices of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative As sociation at Christchurch, or from the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operativo As ssociation at Timaru, and must be for warded to cii", of the above addresses, together with the amount payable on ap plication. Where the number of shares allotted is less than the number applied for the surplus, money forwarded will be credited m reduction of the amount pay able on allotment. Copies of the proposed Memorandum and Articles of Association may be in spected at either of the above-mentioned offices, or at the offices of the Solicitors of the Association at Christchurch. Applications for shares will be received ; up to and including Wednesday, the 30th day of September next. 8*144 a M. BROOKE CHEMIST, EAST S T R E E T ASHBURTON. "ORFSCRIBES For COUGHS, COLDS, RHEUMATISM, SKIN DISEASES, AND Other Minor Ailments BROOKE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS, Is Per Box, Are the best all round Family Medicine .r We SPARROW ; TAILOE i AND I ; MEN'S ; MERGER. T I I \ EAST STKBET. i » r :



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NOTICE. TREES! TREES! I THE Undersigned, have opened a « Nursery on my own account and am prepared to sell FRUIT and FOREST TREES of the choicest sorts at prices not to be beaten. Having had 28 years' experience at Home and m the Colonies,, I I have grown none but the best sorts of ] Fruit Trees, knowing that a great many that are planted out are shy bearers and some that do bear are inferior m quality. I have also a very choice collection of Roses and Shrubs. Gardens laid out : work done by contract or by day. Old fruit trees re-grafted Avith choice sorts if required. Hoping to get a fair share o public patronage. Note the Address, — J. MILLICHAMP, Nurseryman, Terrace Nursery, Tinwald. 'ntions addressed to Ashburton P.O. will receive my prompt; attention SEEDS, PLANTS, &c j TREES. TREES. TREES. tk & am tender my best thanks to my . numerous Customers and Correspon dents for the support I have received from them, and assure them that I shall still conduct my Business m the future as I have m the past, and all orders by post r otherwise will receive prompt atten- Hon. My Apple Trees are all -worked on the blight proof stock, and are clean and well grown,; also Pears, Plums, Cherries, Apricots, and all kinds of small Fruits T have one of the largest stock of Forest Trees m Canterbury,'about 40,000 Larch, Lwo years old, 40,000 do. one year old, and 100,000 Pinus Insignis, one and two years old. Cupressus Macrocarpa, I have a grand lhiCr I make this a speciality. All my seedlings have been transplanted, being equal to those m boxes. I have ibout 100,000 one and two years old, also Roses and Fancy Shrubs m great variety, trees supplied and planted by nu will be guaranteed for 12 months. Cata logue sent post free on application. TAMES TD °RT Eli O AMES X OUTER , NURSERYMAN and SEEDSMAN AxjLE N T O N ASHBURTON ~SEEEST~gEEDS7 VEGETABLE SEEDS. EARLY SEED POTATOES,— Including "THE BEAUTY OF BATH," Which last season produced on Mr Doherty's laud, Tinwald, the enormous yield of some thing over SEVENTEEN TONS PER ACRE. TJpIFTY POUNDS of "The Jj Beauty of Bath" Seed produced THIRTEEN and THREE-QUARTER BAGS of Superb Potatoes. A. W. RANDELL FRUITGROWER, &c., ASHBURTON. 8 39 MISOSSIE LACK, OF TIMARU, HAS Commenced Tuition of Piano I and Singing m Ashburton. Miss Lack will receive pupilsat Masonic Cottage, William street, from eleven a.m. till nine p.m. on MONDAYS, and from nine a.m. till twelve noon on TUESDAYS. For information regarding terms, &c., apply at H. M. Jones' Music Warehouse, or at Masonic Cottage. 8 162 rpREES. TREES.—For Sale twelve or _L fourteen thousand one and two year-old Macrocarpa ; finest plants m the district. Come and see for yourselves. Also five or six thousand Pinus Insignis, one and two years old, and all sorts of early Potatoes and all sorts of Cabbage Plants, Gooseberries, Currants, and Rhubarb. Apply MATTHEW ROONEY, \ Burnett Street East, J Ashburton. ""£2O REWARD. "" ' IN consequence of the amount of Poacli ng going on m the Creeks on the Lagmhor Estate, the above reward will be paid to anyone giving information that will lead to a conviction. From this date No One will be per mitted to FISH m the Creeks on the Lachmhor Estate. DONALD McLEAN Laghmor, Ist. April, 1889. BOOKS —Thousands of Books ot every kind, including books on History Travels, Science, Religion, Fiction, &c. &c. Account Books and Stationery o every discription. A cheap line of En velopes at 5s per thousand. Fancy Goods, including Albums, Photo Frames, Writing Case Work Boxes, Purses, Ladies' Hand Bags, Games and JBuzzles. Music—A large Stock. Pianos' Accordians, V olins, Concetinas, &c. ill Goods reduced for Cash.  L. F. ANDREWES & GO. j Stationers' HaJ



Public Notices NOTICE.-- Anyone found Tres-; passing m pursuit of game or otherwise on che Riversdale Estate on j and after this date will be prosecuted. ' J. R. WILLIAMS. Riversdale, 24th May 76 TO LET. SHOP now m the occupation of John Clark, Saddler, , Tinwaid. For particulars apply to JAMES GUDSELL. on the premises. 8 9 ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL. mENDERS are invited for 16,500 JL superficial feet of heart of black birch Timber (or alternatively V.D.L.) m 16f b and lift lengths, Bin x 4in. Delivery at Methven. Specifications on view at Council office, and Tenders addressed to Chairman to be sent m by 11 o'clock a.m., sth Septem ber. By Order, WILLIAN BAXTER, 8 153 County Engineer. ASHBURTON PERMANENT BUILD ING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. THE Monthly and other payments will be received at the Office, Tancred Street THIS DAY TUESDAY, 2nd SEPT., From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EDWARD STEPHENS, Manager. 155, FENCHURCH STREET, LONDON, E.C. Tp VERY description of Stock Exchange JLlv business transacted at current market prices. Speculative Accounts opened from 1 percent cover with un limited profit, and strictly limited liability, thus a client may buy, say £1000 Brigh ton A's at say 150, should the stock ad vance to 155 and be sold, he wonld make £50 profit, but on the other hand should the stock decline to 149, his only loss could be the £10 deposited. By carefully watching the markets considerable profits can be made ; m many cases Operators who followed my advices have netted £50 profit on an outlay of £10 m a few days. £10 commands £1000 Stock 20 „ £2000 „ 30 £3KO  "VTOTICE is hereby given that the JIS partnership hitherto existing be tween JOHIS ROBERT BLAND" and WILLIAM DAVY HUMPHERYS, trading m co-partnership at Ashburton as Auctioneers, Land, Estate, and Commis sion Agents, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the fifteenth day of August, 1890. Mk J. G. Restell, of Ashburton, is entitled to receive all moneys owing to the late firm, and will discharge, pro rota, all liabilities due by the late firm, the estate having been assigned to him. Dated this twenty-eight day of August, 1890. JOHN R. BL4ND. W, D. HUMPHERYS. Witness to both signatures : Ebwd. G. Crisp, 8 182 Solicitor, Ashburton. ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. ANNUAL ELECTION FOR COUNCILLORS. TN pursuance of the "Municipal Cor- JL porations Act, 188G," and the "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876," I hereby give notice that the Annual Election for THREE COUNCIL LORS m place of Counoillors Huc;o FIIIEDIiANBER, G. F. SCOTT, and THOS. Scaly, who retire by rotation, but who are eligible for re-election, will be held on THURSDAY, the 11th day of September next, at the Borough Council Chambers, Baring Square West, Ashburton. Nominations will be received at the Town Clerk's Office till 12 o'clock noon on THURSDAY, the 4th day of Septem ber next. CHAS. E. FOOKS, Returning Officer. Borough Council Office, Ashburton, August 26th, 1899. 8t166 HOESE BAZAAR. Late Messrs Biand and Humpherys. MR D. THOMAS has received instructions from the Liquidator of the above Estate, to Sell by Public Auction on the Premises, East Street, Ashburton, on SATURDAY, 6th SEPT., 1890, At 12 o'clock, Chestnut Mare, good m saddle and harness. Bay Horse, good m saddle and harness. Black Mare, good m saddle and harness. Gig and Harness. Fireproof Safe. Office Furniture. Dray, Patent Lift. Lot of Harness, a quantity of Timber, and a Lot of SUNDRIES. And on account of another Owner, Three-year-old FILLY, by Digby Grand (unbroken), a grand stamp for a Roadster, took "three prizes as a yearling, and two as a two-year-old. Other entries invited. D. THOMAS, 8 135 Auctioneer. V |feSl| B NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. LEASE OF STORE SITES AT COUNTRY STATIONS. Office of Engineer for Working Railways Wellington, 11 th August, 1890. rpHE Railway Commissioners have sites JL adjacent to Railway Sidings avail able for Leasing to Farmers for Grain Stores at low rentals at the following stations : Balmoral, Medbury, Hawarden, Bexley, View Hill, Mandpville, Carleton, Ladbrooks, Weedons, Homebush, South Malvern, Westerfield, Valetta, Anama, Cavendish, Buccleuch, Seadown, Crickle wood, McLean's, Hilderthorpe, Papakaio, Peebles, Aitcheson's, Uxbridge, Black Point, Borton, Waikouro, Strachan's, Queen's Flat, and Island Cliff. Particulars of terms can be ascertained at the office of the Resident Engineer, Christchurch, and at the Stationmaster's Office.", at Ashburton, Timaru, and Oamaru . Applications will be received addressed to the New Zealand Railway Com missioners at the same offices up to Noon of the Bth September, 1890. Should there be more than one appli cation for any one site it will be again puolicly offered for tender. By order of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners. J. HKNRY LOWE, 88 Engineer for Working Railways.



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A DJOURNED Annual General Meet jQ. ing of Ashburton Cricket Club To-morrow (Wednesday), 7.45 p.m., County Council Offices. Business im portant. All cricketers invited. 9 12 TTIXPERIENCED Cook wants en _Oj gagenienfc on Farm or Station, goxl Baker. Apply "Cook," "Mail , Office JL _ 93 WANTEDHKNO WN7^MeT"Cham pion, is open for engagement aa monthly nurse, m town or country, address—Care Mrs Randell, East Street. 8 163 "HAMSTEAD TOWN BOARD.



The Ashburton Cricket Club hold their annual meeting to-morrow evening, m the County Council chambers. ' . Communication has been restored on the Port Darwin line. As the whirl of time has again ushered m the busy spring, and to be prepared to supply the requirements of Nature and of their numerous patrons, Messrs J. Scaly j and Co. have completed their selection of seeds, which are of the choicest quality obtainable, and which include clovers, turnips, mangolds,,carrots, rape, perennial ryegrass, cocksfoot, elephant sweed, garden, and flower seeds m endless varieties, and ■garden requisites of every description. For the convenience of patrons who cannot make their purchases during the day the premises will be o[ en to nine p.m. on Saturday even ngs on and after the 16th August.—Advt. ~p\EAF FORTY YEARS! The uo JLy scrijtion of a simple remedy, by whioh a complete cure of de>fness and, noises m the head of Forty Years' Stand Ing has just been effected, will be sent FREE tc anyone who applies to J. II Nicholson, 175 William Street,, Mel bourne.