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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 3

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Dunedin, notify that they will hold a sale of Clydesdale stud, at Clinton, 011 Tuesday, February 28. The sale will be without reserve, and will commence at 10.30 a.m. Writing of Dr. Lucas's Papaw ointment, the "Medical .Magazine" says:— "Its activity was demonstrated • by several eases, of hypertrophy of the fuvbinal' bodies, and in cases of enlarged tonsils. After three to four weeks' application there was a very marked improvement. There can be no doubt that tho preparation is unusually effective, and should prove very serviceable, ol> viating the necessity fof operative procedures in. many cases." For services in saving over 200 head of cattle cast overboard when' the s.s" Minnehaha ran ashore off Scilly • Rock, 110 boatmen of the Scilly Isles have been awarded ,£7BO by the Admiralty Court. Mr. George I'aish, at a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society recontlv, dealt with statistics showing the approximate amount of visible canital which Britain has supplied to other lands in the aggregate. Ho stated that tho amount of capital invested by Great Britain in India, ths Oversea States, and foreign countries, up tho end of 1807, was «E2,G93,738,d00, of which i 1,312,000,000 was invested in Greater Britain and India, and JE1,381,000,000 in foreign countries. This capital was bringing to tho country an income of j£I3S,TOI,OOO per annum, equal to ai. return of 5.2 per cent.