LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume X, Issue 2343, 31 March 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

m : • The Mr William Seattle who was found drowned at Oamaru on Saturday is supposed to be the manager of Lake Heron station, Ashburton Gorge, who went to Oamaru a fortnight ago to visit a sick friend and has not since been heard ofF. The English Postal authorities state that the reduction in the postal rates between Australia and England to 2|d per half ounce has resulted in a Urge increase in the amount of correspondence sent from Australia. In the first mail at the reduced rate, brought by the Steamer Britannia, (he letters from Sydney numbered 12,684, as against 10,525 by the two proceeding mails respectively, This is an increase of about 20 per cent. The first mail from Victoria under the new postal rates included nearly double the ordinary number of letters dispatched. From New Zealand the increase i.i the number of fetters sent was only small, but it is expected that following mails will take considerably larger numbers. In regard to newspapers, nothing is stated, but a London newspaper says that they have been delivered very badly since the increase in letters showed itself.

We clip the following important testimonial from the " Illawarra Mercury " (N.S. W of he 30th March. It needs no comment: — ' Mr John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountaino writes to us that after suffering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief by using Sander and Sons' Kucalyptic Kxtragt. He says :—" Seeing the said Extract advertised in tire ' Illawarra Mercury,' his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr Hosking, chemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at once. He states that between 10th March hist., when he obtained the first bottle of the extract, and the 19th, the use of that medicine continued to afford him relief, to which he had been a stranger for four years.