THE PROGRESS OF MAHOMEDANISM.

SOME STARTLING STATEMENTS AT

THE CHURCH CONGRESS.

Why Christianity Fails.

Canon Taylor created an immense sensa tion at the Church Congress lately by reading a luminous and interesting paper in which he conclusively showed that the progress of Mahomedanism in Asia and Africa, was, despite our countless mission aries far greater than that of Christianity, The rev. gentleman began by declaring that over a large portion of tho world Islamism as a missionary religion is more successful than Christianity. (Sensation.) Not only, said he, are the Moslem converts from paganism more- numer ous than the Christian converts, but Christianity in some-regions is actually re ceding before Islam, while attempts to proselytise Mahomedan nations are notoriously unsuccessful. We not Only do not gain ground, but even fail to hold our own. The faith of Islamalreadyextends from Morocco to Java, from Zanzibar to China, and is spreading across Africa with giant strides. It has acquired a footing on the Congo and the Zambesi, while Uganda, the most powerful of the negro States, has just become Mahlmedan. In India Western civilization, which is sapping Hindooism, only.prepares the way for Islam. Of the 255 millions in India 50 millions are already Moslems, and of the whole popula tion o*f Africa more than half. It- is not the first propagation of Islam that has to be explained ; bufc it is the permanency with which it retains its hold upon it| con verts. Christianity is less tenacious in its grasp. Au African tribe once converted to Islam never reverts to paganism, and never embraces Christianity. Though quite un fitted for the higher races, ib is eminently adapted to bo a civilizing and elevating religion for barbarous tribes. Christianity is too spiritual, too lofty. Islam has done for civilization more than Christianity. ("Oh, oh.") Take, e.g.. the statements of English officials or of lay travellers as fco the practical results of Islam. When Mahomedanism is embraced by a negro tribe, paganism, devil worship, fetish ism, cannibalism, human sacrifice, in fanticide, witchcraft at once disappear. The natives begin to dress, filth is re placed by cleanliness, and they acquire personal dignity and self-respect*! Hospi tality becomes a religious duty, drunken ness becomes rare, gambling is forbidden, immodest dances and the promiscuous in tercourse of the sexes cease, female chastity is regarded as a virtue, industry replaces idleness, license gives pk.c2 to law, order and sobriety prevail, blood feuds, cruelty to animals and to slaves are forbidden. A feeling of humanity, benevolence, and brotherhood is in culcated. Polygamy and slavery are regulated, and tneii" evils are restrained. Islam, above all, is the most total abstinence association in tho world, whereas the exten sion of European trademeanstheextemaonof drunkenness and vice in the degradation of the people ; while Islam introduces a civili zation of no low order, including a know ledge of reading and writing, decent cloth ing, personal cleanliness, veracity, and self-respect. Its restraining and civiliz iflg effects are marvellous. How little fmve we to show for the vast sums of money and all the precious lives lavished upon Africa! Christian converts are reckoned by thousands, Moslem con verts by millions. These are the stern facts wo have to face. They arc-extremely un ploaeant facts ; it is folly to° ignore them. Wo ought co begin by recognising t:,he fact that Islam is not an anti-Christian faith, bat a half Christian iaith—an imperfect Christianity. Islam was a replica of the faith of Abraham and Moses, with Christian elements. Judaism was exclusive. Islam is cosmopolitan—not like Judaism confined to one race, but extended to the whole p world. Moslems acknowledge four great teachers—Abraham, the friend of God; Moses, the prophet of God ; the Lord Jesns, the work of God; and Mahomed, the apostle of God. In tho creed of Islam the Lord Jesus stands the highest of the four. Thqugh the teaching of Mabomei falls grievously short of the teaching of St. Paul, there is nothing in it antagonistic to Christianity. It is inidw*y between Judaism and Christianity. # H> is bettor than Judaism, inasmuch *s if* recognises the miracles and the Jiessiahship of Jesus Christ. This reformed Judaism swept so ewiftlv over Africa ?«d Asia because the African and Syrian doctors had substituted abstruse metaphysical dog_mas for the religion of Chrisi. They tried to combat licentiousness by celibacy and virginity. Seclusion frem the world was the road to holiness, »°d dirt was the characteristic of monkish sanctity. The people were practically polytheists, worshipping a crowd of ipartyrs, saints, and angels. Islam swept away this mass of corruption and jMjiperatition. It was a revolt against empty •Uneological polemics; it was a masculine protest against the exaltation of celibacy as the crown of piety. It brought out the fundamental dogma of religion—the unity and greatness of God. It replaced monklinessby manliness. It gave hope to the slave, brotherhood to mankind, and recognition to the funda mental facts of human nature. The higher Christian virtues — humility, purity of heart, forgrieness of injuries, sacrifice of self—these are not the virtues of Islam. The Christian ideal is unintelligible to savages ; but the lower virtues which Islam inculcates are what the lower races can be brought to understand—temperance, clean liness, chastity, justice, ftu?titude, courage, benevolence, hospitality*.1 veracity, and resignation. They can be "taught to culti vate the four cardinal virtues, and to ab jure the seven deadly sins. The" Christian ideal of the brotherhood of man is the highesit; but Islam preaches a practical brotherhood—the social equality of all Moslems. This is the great bribe which Islam offers. The convert is admitted at once to an exclusive social caste; he becomes a member of a vast confraternity of 150,000,000. A Christian convert is not regarded as a social equal, but the Moslem brotherhood is a reality. We have over muclf " dearly beloved brethen" in the readg ing desk, but over little in daily HfjP (Laughter.) True, the Koran offered a material paradise, but the social privileges attained in this world are a more: potent motive. The Jews, of all races the most susceptible to lofty religious ideas, needecb nevertheless a training of 2,000 years before they werp'litted for the higher teaching _jj*fttfrW. Can we expect the negro, with a <*-*'' low moral arid cerebral development with centuries of fetishism anclfsavagery behind him, to receive at once that lofty Christian morality for which even th# prophets and heroes of Hebrew history were not pre pared? The teaching1 of Islam is not too spiritual or too exalted, but it is the school which may educate the African into fitness for a higher faith. The Church of England has not been able to make any permanent impression on the African. Islam, with its material paradise, or the Bahrmnn Army, with its kettledrums (laugb^terji or the Church of Rome with its black^madonnas, may be able to descend to the level of the negro, but the Church of England, with its thirty-nine Articles, will not bgthe Church »f equatorial Africa for many generations. Leb us remember that in some respects Moslem morality is better than our own. In resignation to God's will, in temperance, charity, veracity, and in the brotherhood of believers, they set us a pattern we should do well to follow. Islam has abolished drunkenness, gambling, and prostitution— the three curses of Christian lands. Islam is the closest- approach to Christianity which has been able to take hold on Eastern

or Southern nations. m lt is superior to the grovelling superstitioH. of the Coptic and Abyssinian churches. Moslems are already imperfect Christians ; let us try to perfect their religion rather than vainly endeavour to destroy it, and we may possibly trans form Islam into Christianity. Thus we may find that in God's scheme, Mahomet has been preparing the way for Christ. (Cheers.)

IN CHAMBERS.

Experiences la a Common London

[Lodging-Houso.

The London common lodging-house of the better sort is now called " chambers." Ifc has been described often enough in the ne\vspapers;"*but the lodger for a single night, the '"inquirer," however shabbily made up for the occasion, is always sus" pected and excluded from th| inner circle. Unfortunately for me, I belong to the inneu* circle. I have lived in chambers now for the past three weeks. One night, tired and hungry, with only a single sixpence in my pocket, I turned away from the traffic and glare of High Holborn down a silent by-street, attracted by the word " chambers " glaring in white letters from a red lamp. As -this is considered a fair specimen of the common lodging-house, I give a description of what I saw and heard the first night, supplemented bjjj.- what I learned afterwards. 1 entered, and to the left found the common sitting, or, as it is called, the reading-room — although the only literature it contained consisted of some three or four newspapers. I inquired for the "deputy," and was introduced to a gentleman who was known as'"Mac." Mac is ever ready to shake hands, crack a joke, or drink " half a pint " with anyone. He angled skilfully but unsuccessfully frith me for this half-pint; whispering in a con fidential manner that he had reserved a good bed for me—"a reet quid bed." I told him I had only sixpenco, or I would treat him for his kindness. "Oh! are you stony?" he asked, turned on his heel, and went in quest of other arrivals who were not stony. A strangely mixed assemblage occupied the reading-room. The broken-down trades man rubbed shoulders with the professional tramp; the shabby-genteel but honest out of-work clerk was in conversation with the professional pickpocket. Seated together apart are four drapers' assistants, some months out of work, who in a short time have sunk by rapid gradations from the cheap hotel to the five shillings-a-week coffee house, and at last down to "chambers." The story of these men is all the same. In London the agreement generally entered into between draper and assistant is that such agreement may be terminatod at a moment's notice by either party. Slack trade often obliges the employer to reduce the number of his hands, and some must go. There are four of these men hero. At the small hotel, and again at the coffee-house lodging, ifc was their daily custom to go round from shop to shop, often making in a single day's tour a circuit of ten or fifteen miles. Two of the four are now soiling string on com mission ; the others are canvassing fo-' portraits. Near these unfortunate drapes, but in a group to themselves, sit some'*ialf" dozen mon conversing volubly with tongue and hand. They are Frenchmen **« ™ stay here for a night or two and then dritt away. Around three or four tobies at the furthest end of the room # -draughtand card parties, playing for ial/penco or pots of beer or bits of tobacco The table in tho centre of the room is m the exclusive pos^on of "wrapper writers," or writer of addresses for trades men. The din and clatter all round dis tracts them not: address after address coDied from a directory, la written with great rapklitf- Th,ey are among the moat hard-worked and the worst-paid class of men iv existence. They must write in a neab-'lerky hand addresses on 1,000 wrap ne><* f°r 3s > sometimes the rate of pay is prijeb lower. To write this number re quires constant application from 8 o'clock in the morning till 10 at night. The per sons so employed are often men of education who have " seen better days. ' The proprietor of tho place is a non resident, and only attends at intervals during the night to collect the money. About 8 o'clock a burly personage, with a gaoler's voice, enters. "I'm going to the office ; come, now, all you follows, turn up jwith the cash." All who havo the neces sary sixpence respond|to tho summons, my self amongst the number; some few re main seated, whisper amongst themselves, and look despondent. This, however, is only the first summons ; but if something unlooked-for does not turn up before mid night they will bo obliged to go out into the streets. Some of them are the most respectably dressed ef tho whole lot, At the last summons to " tho bar," as the pay office is termed, the moneyless, or " stone broke," had to turn out. Amongst them was a shabby reckless-looking young tramp with a wizened old-mannish face, who, aa he departed, sang: " Hail, rain, wind, or snow, Pay me my tanner or out you go. Down in tho kitchen all day long, up to 10 p.m., cooking is going on. A large fire (every common lodging-house keeps a fire that would roast an ox) is surrounded with pans and teapots. Many of the latter are without lids, in place of which a piece of paper, weighed down with a cinder, is sub stituted. The greater number of the regular lodgers have "lockers," or little lock-up cupboards, where they stow away provisions. Going to bed at night nearly all are penniless ; yet, strange to say, many of them are cooking meafc or brewing tea at breakfast-time, and the same thing happens at dinner and tea time. After breakfast they scatter away, and in due time return with enough 7ood for a meal. Those who sit apart from the fire, foodless, are the more respectable ones — men who are ash&ed to beg. In the better-class lodging house, the beds are like soldiers' cots, and fairly clean. A certain number are allotted to each room, in accordance with police regulations. But it is safer for a new-comer to sleep in them divested of his under clothing ; indeed, most of the old hands sleep in this manner. It is still better not to sleep in common lodging-house beds at all if it can be helped. Bub that, indeed, is advice thafc' need not bo given. Nobody does pass his nights in a common lodging house except from stern necessity.

A Yankee Trader in Dahomey.

Mr** W. WATSON,in the " North America Reviewi! gives an entertaining account of " his friend, "the King of Dahomey, whom ho visited for purposes of trade. Dohomey seems to be a cheap place to live in. A man with an income of £2 a year is independent and can live on the best the market affords.

We could have bought a whole deer for half a crown—they did nob take American money—and a nylghau, which is larger, for the same. Ten pounds, about, of not bad beef or mutton for two cents, our money, and a pair of chickens for less. Eggs, one cent a stone, of about thirty—the stone being a weight of possibly four pounds— game, and monkey in proportion, and fruit and vegetables so ridiculously cheap as to ' make one ashamed of them. A yam of thirty or forty pounds, one cent; beete, carrots, etc., in proportion. Grapes, pines, sour-sap, sweet-sap, alligator pears, bananas, and almost every kind of fruit known to tropical climes at two cents a calipash of two- bushels, calipash and all, the calipash being the half or three-quarter part of a dried gourd-shell, which sometimes holds as much as six bushels, though two is the standard measure. A hearty men cannot devour more than one cent's worth of verago food per day. Of this abundance

..... fin d s its way to the coast, tho anything fresh L em& kaf , an d the soil °f ? fi ahOm ne r rf rfear^should be accused of prolific, and I. fear * tdl wbat T have r e rs:tM^^ over tho top of which two »»£*,£ y six feet in height could no > claspbat Mr Watson, on the way Dajwnev. an English missionary-an Oxfordißbw. and a thorough gentleman-who had b* there nearly twenty years, sent out on a* original salary of £100 per annum, aftffl ■■ wards increased to £150, which was wallya fortune. He was running a fine fanr, with one hundred labourers, making sugarjvl *eh he sold on the coast, and was getting ncli, but showed not the slightest fapositionto go home. If Mr Watson could have stayed the "missionary"would have shown him * troop of chimpanzees which he baa "trained as servants-not only for tncks.bub as useful labourers. There are evidently some odd sights to be seen in Dahomey. Among the things that'struck me as queer was a sentinel walking up and down before one of the gate?, shouldering an ancient Yankee musket, with nothing on but a native-made shirt of Yankee muslin. Ho walked solemnly back and forth, not stopping even when the interpreter spoke to him, but picking up a round stone upon one side of the gato and depositing it on a similar heap at the other. That was the Dahomian city time, a substitute for clocks, and accepted as official. The next thing, among many, was the fact that wherever we met with a flock of chickens about the cabins the cocks wore a muzzle, which did not prevent them from eating, bub did from crowing. This was by order of tho King, who did not like a cock crow, not being, perhaps, an early riser, and being disturbed with his 370 wives too early.

MESMER AVENGED.

Strange Medical Discoveries.

The experiments in hypnotism made by several intelligent physicians at one of the best-known French hospitals have showed in a manner that seems conclusive that on * certain class of patients medicines encU*od in glass tubes or in carefully wrapped packages had the same effect when appliea to portions of the body or placed under the pillow as when taken interm>ay» ™c sub ject having no knowledgo vhatever of the nature of the substancv, and in many cases being even ignor*"* that any *o} l°n whatever was being taken in regard to him For instant opium put him to sleep, intoxicant made him drunk, nerve stimulants exited him m a most singular manner- h" was Ploased or nauseated according «> the nature of tho drug or other ai>3ekincd applied to him externally, or in K>mo cases only brought within a cer tain distance of him. If any difference was tr be noted those medical agencies, of whoso nature or presence he was not con scious, produced a moro extraordinary effect than if ho had taken them into his system. There is nothing in t!he real or protended mysteries of spiritualism or mind reading moro marvellous than this subtle influence of things external to the body on tho internal organs of the body. Yet tho experiments were honestly made in tho in terests of pure science, and tho results ap pesir unquestionable. A certain Dr. Puys has made a report on the subject to the Medical Association of the Rhone, which includes the most learned members of the profession in the centre of France. He describes the state in which the patient existed during the operations as a life apart, automatic and unconscious, leaving him, in spite of his intelligent responses, utterly forgetful of all that he haa done when returned to his normal state. Tho phenomena were determined by coffee in infusion, hasheesh, cognac, wine, beer, champagne, valerian and other sub stances moro or less in use in medicine. Those were applied externally to the body, sometimes without contact and with object* intervening, and the results wore the ex hibition of emotions moro marked and de cided then if they had been taken internally. The French paper stated that this report profoundly moved the dignified assemblage who listened to it. One member moved the appointment of a commission to ex amine the subject. Another insisted, say ing that the question did nob relate merely to individuals capable of being hypnotised by a substance which does not penetrate into the body and which loses nothing in quantity. There was hero a great danger to the medical profession, any one of whom might be accused of having murdered one of his fellow-citizens without the power to prove his innocence. By this he meant that a person might be killed by the ex ternal application of strychnine, or arsenic and the facb could not be disproved simply by the absence of thoße poisons from the stomacli of the deceased person. It was evidently a social as well as a scientific pro blem, he thought, and no learned man was in a state to resolve it without having him self repeated the experiments and others naturally suggested by the main facts. There always exist charlatans ready to seize' on facts that science has suggested but has been obliged to leave half proven. Mesmer had his Cagliostro, half honest and half-way devoted to quackery, whose charlatanism afforded an admirable weapon against Mesmer's theories. He was con corned in the affair of the diamond necklace which bo unfortunately compromised the reputation of Marie Antoinette. The French physicians who have made these experiments with medicines acting at a distance have not, so far as known, .made any mention of Mesmer nor of his alleged mysterious fluid. They are even careful in the use of the word magnetism if they employ the" term at aIL None of them appear to entertain the most distant idea of any relation or intimate association of the hypnotised subject with the world of spirits. Whatever occurs, they will pro bably never go as far as this. If the alleged facts are proved, as seems probable, they will only add to the quite as mysterious agencies or forces of nature, attraction, whether of gravitation, capillary or chemi cal, and electricity, and another agency or force, unless they conclude that those men tioned are operating in new channels or by methods hitherto unsuggested.

THE HABITS OF ALLIGATORS.

A correspondent "down South " says an alligator's throat is an animated sewer- Everything which lands in his open mouth goes down. He is a lazy dog, and instead of hunting for something to eat he lets his victuals hunt for him. That is, he lies with his great mouth open, apparently dead, like the possum. Soon a beetle crawls into it, then a fly, then several gnats, and a colony of mosquitoes. The alligator doesn't close his mouth yet. He is waiting for a whole drove of things. He does his eating by wholesale. A little later a lizard will cool himself under the shade of the upper jaw. Then a few frogs will hop up to catch the mosquitoes. Then more mosquitoes and gnats will alight on the frogs. Finally a whole village of insects and reptiles settle down for an afternoon picnic. Then all at once there is an earth quake. The big jaw falls; the alligator blinks one eye, gulps down the entire menagerie, and opens his great front door again for more visitors.

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Nervous and PhydM^ Who t ff *«3J. wd do well Uj «£& 3***^ to him will receive*l^ B*^ AU.S«? ' Complaints. No " Ife* O^^ffilil The Doctor's famote Pin- 011 on medicine free of <^« 7?'*!?^ totted i. ■ any person applyin^/^^ttwlS "ft 5 Particulars oflhei? fc^.^^UjßE ,m i strato Ma unbound ™^w^^^ smsaa 8b 6d a box. A gre PreventaUtrJ^j ■ TT?ILI^ ! & LIVER PIISI is 6d perbox. A gi^d safeguard and cort^^ FEMA E TONIC, 3s and 4s 6d per belie. A splendid ■»,,«« nerve-soother, and neral invigOTator J^«r»^ tire cure for aUd itiespec&tofeaia?lo3l' X FOR ■M RS IF" gTUAm'|: Soli verywhere.; J^BUKB RE CDV IPoß3as£^ ■ : ■ -■■■■■ •-: v::C. ECLIPSE PRODUCES (ligistered.) This Prepars.nonjclipseß all (Mem,' A nel ana j; ace, iol> .jlnoving . aa&; nreveatiil Dandru^ and arrafc<; thelaliottheiHaiiv^S curea any Disease of tftiScalp and causes iin« growth on &eh^d|it^K^SS^«SSJ| Where it lias beqwne wdyLMid thin frotf-i whatever cause, if qmck^rKkfcß; it' to ttlr natural rigour. Eondri)3s oT%jiSfinta fls Christchurch can testify totha faUtthiikjffi Hickman was COMfLETjELY BAiDi^^|M years, 'and after twing every koown iSffIES! without eftect^ hepawverfilj^s wondwffl' preparation, whicBKNTIKBUIIiRyiSTOMItt HIS HAUI TO ITB NATURA^STATB AND COLOUE. It has frlao provedlw&esßfiifhiW number of other eiini lar caßsa invhu-li the niii' had fallen from scrofula an4.ofiß7djßeasMi|Pt Each bottle contains eupgyMrdne \zuoiMi Price, is, of Graves Aickin, fiimbn Broa«'Ti' P. King and Sons, J. A. PondTmlll GtSfc General Agents— : •MWr •■ , 5! ~ ; N.Z. :DBUG COMP^fc, WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS ftafce^xnali' the best and most agree^mrinkiiiliftt weather. ■ \ _ -■.'; ;- ; .**.,'^;; KBATINQ'S POWDER "ft- ' ' "^ KEATING'S POWDER. ■' . - -f' -.' KEATING'S POWDER, ft' :'[ KEATING'S POWDJBB* « ICBATING'S IPO^VDER. » ;; KEATING'S iaoWDER. « • KILLSi»GS,, ~ HARMLESS TO AOTmII . HARMLESS TO Affll ' J' ' l \ HARMLESS TO ANi™, "i •" «•«>- HARMLESS TO ANIM®, - HARMLESS TO ANb5K' HARMLESS T<) ANImS, MOTHJ2 I» FUfflEd tirery' ol^ , speciies of will < tniflsnviilttible fojptrbyjEg. fleas la lie, PI^MC SIpLUTIONIiIJ that packages of the A powder bear tha . autograplti of Tll irA?;' v£BtAXB?Qij Sold in Tirisby alffiugrfsta. ;*.- j KEATIKG'S vrlm TABLETS. ?■ KEATING'S WS TABLETS. • S i - KEATING'^ WOK TABLETS, KEATING'S Wdpf TABLETS. .L KEATING'S Wim TABLETS. \ A v PURELY VsM]lpE S^BffiTilßAW; both ia api>eaxan|e .alßaste^' 'furniaiiliiiSsflffl moat agreeabla metb.£(|lt administering thtf'■' on It certain rempyjß INTjSSTINAJj dgj THKEAD WORM « a pefleictly safe ana; I mild preparation, a^d|||Jpeoially adapted tim Children. ; Sold in iflflKall Brugjgr^ta. )? I Proprietor. THO^pATINQ, Limdca;^1 W'OLFE'S SGHffiPPS is sold by every respectable ifffcaa. Accept no othet ' A WOND^L |ffiDICINE.f BEEC#'S PILLS L X tot^^Wmt Aw aduuified by' •■ CliflßL thousands to of JZ Xy' "jßliv ■ worth, a Chines a M&r :;jE\' Boxfor buious ao4|| wQ&r "'■"■ '^R\flV I>J/I IKVaiV Buohaa-wind, aaa ; p/ EATEff n ssaasai ■Jtni -iZ-T^jK- IWI diness, fnlnewi and I« I PI LEll Ml awellingaftermealß. Itli\ /SI diaaiiesaanddroijgt Im\ —"Hg /«/ siaea, cold «*UKv! \®>*^«>^f shortneflflofWatb, /rwS^ costiT«neßß,Bcw*f 'blotchiißont'hnßnlV wii all nervous sitremblinj? sensatiDnU ri»^k ;nrstdose willgfflfaliefinJOniinuMS. If*-, ficiion, for theylie done it in thoTaaads B vary suffererlSrnQs'ily invited to try on« »fl"i^. v these Pills, *ni»y ifiH be aotaiowledgei to uf \ WORTH j GUINEA A 'BOX. For females W *ges tteae I*Uls aw invaluably aa a few dosesl»6Jn carry og »B«ioi»1b»^j|: ; ;.-. open all oiwtraoioiiß, and bring aDont all wMm TOtfuired. Noßl^6B a&ould ba ■without.w*^,' 90wre is nowiotao ta be found to Wt"", BBKOHAM'SIP'S for removing any <?«an> Koa or imj& •?* py"6ll^. "ffi according to^iidireotioins given ■With (M»" 00* they will soonppe females of all ages wsonna and robust hefl^ in For a wea^MOr impaired dig«a«3g«» disorders of #t™'i they act like rtMAGIv»--»• a few doses wH foand to work wofldeffl IPft*f , most impor»! organs of the human m""1^ They Btrenglatt w*» whols mnsoular »J*™^ rsstore theTpg loßt comple^^briagWflrw--. keen edge offpi**ll*B and arouse mto awjJjKJJ * the 1103E89P01 health the whole phynow^OS j of the hun»!framß« Th6B9. BW,*fiiSof ■ admitted bJ^^ds embwang;^!^^* society: an»ttß of the beet g?st*ollSs?,r> I Ml' nervoul Sebilitated is Beeoham^^s^gJ the largestsilßo'any paten* medloineai BEEOHiIE'S MAGIC COtf&HPIIXS Asiirem^orCteughflmgeMrt^AsthnfcE^/ onto toßwfttog. Shortness o^teatti, : anWpwl^ the Ghes^^«»MW.J^Sg. *m sCiMpTaUedj andj&onetoborftt|jna» ■S to «ntfthat they a» tha beat ever oßM^tl - S a£tm If aot on-tiiey aw a ff^j^, v-.



''j f Medlcat ■ : ji T «£AST A REAI, OURE RHEUMATISM! I EHEUMATISM t f; . Dr. PARKER'S j "PtTLVIS JRHEUMATICON," * iaurely vegetable compound for the immediate & f^SfoT^ c'l re of Rheumatism, Sciatica! f curalgia, Toothache, and all nerve and mus' t ,™paJ? 3«, S/P er, e att?; ckß short in a few jtojirs. it supersedes! all outward applications. paVabl?cur e8 f 0r V°lUnt&ry * 3s 6d per bottle ; 3s lOd by post £ole agent for Auckland:- ;■ I S. GILB ER T, ■.; i »| CHEMIST, QUEEN-STREET. ,;M : ?STE ED MAN'S M SOOTHING POWDERS Ffß CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEETH |i,.- CAUTION TO PURCHABERB. fho value of this well-known Family Medicine h« been largely tested in all parts of the world, aft in all grades of society, for upwards of fifty FYjAiis. Its well-earned extensive sale has iH dfced spurious imitations, some of which in oft ward appearance so closely resemble the original as to have deceived many purchasers. 1. iproprieter, therefore, feels it due to the pflic to give a special caution against the use oflsuch imitations. jurchasers are therefore requested carefully tq observe the four following distinctive ctjracteristics, without which none are KQuine :— v. In every case the words John Stbed- J#, Chemist, Waworth, Surrey, are en glyed on the Government Stamp affixed to cifh packet. L tid. Each Single Powder has directions for *nj dose, and the words " John Steedman, Cfemist, Walworth, Surrey," printed thereon. 1 Id. The nameSteedman is always spelt, with tv» EE's. ►ft. The manufacture is carried on solely in ||M 1 worth, Surrey. * bid in Packets by all Chemists and Medicine Vodors, at Is ljd to 2a 9d each. Agents, Kemp .tjfjknk, Pitossicß and Co., Auckland, Wei "ion, Christchurch, and Dunedin. (Of. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S s i CHLORODINE. Tie Original and Only Genuine. *i# -avico to Invalids.—lf you wish to obtain gut, refreshing sleep, free from headache, f'rel t from pain and 4 anguish, to calm and as sxu § the weary achings of protracted disease, WH fofate the nervous media, and regulate the ( oirtl»ting systems of the body, you will pro ,vidj yourself with that marvellous remedy dis comqi by Dr. J. Collis Browne (late Army MdlcU Staff), to which he gave the name of QKUttODYNE, and which is admitted by the prctesion to be the most wonderful and valu •:§, bl rtnedjr over discovered. C IL)ROD YNE in the best remedy knownfor Co. zhs Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma. t GHRiROUYNB acts like a charm in jDiatrhqi, and is tlie only specific in Cholera ana M CEUXODYNE effectually cuts nhort all at facSs o^dKpilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation, and CHLObDYNK is the only palliative In .Jstmmltfi» Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer, Tooth- IpShc. Mepgifie, &c. From Sines & Co,, PharmaceutfcalChemisfa. Medical ffij], Simla, Januarys. XBSO. To J. T. Davejtpoii Es<i.. 33, Great Russell-street, BlooniHbuk London. Dear Sir,--We embrace thin opporinity Of congratulating you upon the fide-gprea reputation this justly esteemed calcine, r. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne.haE earned for feelf, not only in Hindoatan, but all over the Eft. As a remedy for general utility, fa much atstion whether a better is imported to the cowry, and we shall be glad, to hear of its finding auoce in every AiiKlo-|ndian home. The other bjjnds, we are happy to say, are now rGlegated to \e native bazaars, and, judging from their sap, we fancy their sojourn there will be evai%cent We could multiply in etanoes ad \iiniium of the extraordinary efficacy of Drfcollis Browne's Chlorodyne in diarrhoea, ana Dysentery, Spasms, Cramps, Neuriugia, the tomiting of Pregnancy, and as a generaTscdativl that have occurred uaderoui >ersoDal obserution during many years. In Choleraic Diartiosa, and even in the more •terrible forms d Cholera itself, we have vri|f Siiapf^ilijito *"i'r'Vi'ivg>F cantrallme: flnww. "WSe I haVe iever usd any other fornx of thw mcli ciri«j tlan Cqllisi^rowne's from a*finnooaviotan tlitit if is decidiMif the best.and also from aseifee of dv% we own t the proifessian and the public, as wf arei of omion that the substitutioii|!ot any other than Cilis Browne's is a deliberate brealh of faih on the part of fas CIIEMJBT TO PRBCRIBB AND PATIENT AJJKK. —Wep.re, Sir, fa^ifully yours, Symes andipo., Memfers ofthe Harm. Society of Great Britain, His Excellency tl^ Viceroy's Chemists. | vlo-Chuncellor Sir W. Page Wood stated that Dr. J. Collis Browne was, undoiptedly, the Aventor of Chlorodyne; that the sory of the defendant Freeman was de liberably untrue, which, he regretted to say, had ben sworn to.i-Sea * The Times," July *3, Soldin bottles atls ljd, 2n 3d, 4s fid, and Us each. JXone is genune without the words " Dr. J. Colfo Browne's Gilorodyne' on the Govern ment itamp. Overvfielming medical testimony acconqanies each bttle. Cau on.—Bewarebf Piracy and Imitations. SoleManufacturetJ. T. DAVENPORT, 33, Great iussell-atreet^Bloomsbury, London. TJILksDON'S KEURALGIC DROPS, Jli f]r the THfROUGH CUIE OF NEURALGIA. From tie R«v- C. J. Eerton, St. John's Parson !«?, Ferry Rod, December, 18T3. "Myifiear Mr Ellsdon,—l have for many years pst from time b time suffered severely from wiralgia, and tjive found nothing to re lieve fe so speedily <r bo effectively as your 'Ne?!.nlgio Drops.' lean oonddently recom mend |.—Yours truly.C. J. Mebton. Num)rous other Tciimonals in my posses aion. i Prices: 2a and 5s 6d per bottle. BAG iB 8" T O OTIA CHE E S STOOE ijp Grafts Inatantaueocb Relief. Price, Is. Pretired only by F. bIGGS flate Ellifldon) Chemia, Uigh-street. Christchurch. fcold by BllChthists. Wholesat* Agents: KEI^PTHORNE & PSOSSKR, Auckland. ■ a r m ami FAILWELL'S MAGIC OILS. A SUPERB REMEDY For SpWna Lameness, Sore Shoulders, Cuts, ■Wolnds, Bruises, Neuralgfii, Lumbago, kc., in Men, Horses, and Domestic Aniaala. Tho fillowing is one of ittiy testimonials :— JtKSSRi FAT.LWELI. & SONHJear Sirs,—lt af fords ijie pleasure to beaj testimony to the- Electbioal eftects of yoir Magic Oils. I have uibd several bottles on different patients ?t my lorse Inflrmary, andHways found bene ficial efocts from their appHcition ; the A Oils as a rubefacient for subcutateous warbles, sit fasts, aid encysted glandfe' Ub B Oils for cuts, galls, ijrationa, and cjpnrous distemper; and I can confidently reoammjnd them to my friends md the public, and no stable should be withoutth«m— ffl '•■ A B*3tfEDY FOR gJLN AttD BEAST. (Sijnod) Owen Cipan Mc6ee, Otahuhu. PREPARED IbLELY BY U-LLWE» & SON, i CHBjfcTS, ' CfcAHCIHt; ANDiPAPAKCIiA, N.Z. Price—2»6d per Bottjes or in caiea containing one dozen bottlos. 21i. ~Y GOO J> W IN; GO X, \; . . BpTAL SUROEON; . \ MS, Queei-atroet, jULP. Society's Snilding : jf Aqoklaad. Eel AND SO N,- Klnip' Houso, Ilobaon-strjof-, Auckland. BDwtf Cor licentiate ta Dental Surgery R.C.S., Sjgiand. Hbriuki' Cot, Doctor of Dental Simrec . Urfveifpf Michigan, U.S., AmeWoa. — '-~~W —"" —"' J. M CART BE, Mgeon dentist |g (By Examination) OJa^jle years with E. Cox and Soa). Jt«y HI OoNSHLrra AT HIS RESIDEKOB. JBtRETrSf BUILDINGS, ■ KaW^lpio Road (near too of HowMfcroet). Jldeabges moderate ■