NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 February 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Monte Carlo is threatened with a rival. Nice is seriously considering tho question of adding public baccarat rooms to its other attractions. Tho 1000 miles motor trial at tho Crystal Palace ended in a success for the five-horse power car, which completed the distance without having stopped once. The time occupied was 48hr 24min. Mile. Chauvin, the first woman bar, rister in France, is about to make her debut before the Fourth Chamber of the Civil Court of the Seine. She will appear for the defence in a lady friend’s divorce suit.

An old woman who had been noticed wandering about Angers, France, for three days, was taken to an asylum, where there was found in her clothing £12,000 worth of bonds payable to bearer and ’2OO £lO notes, or £20,000 in all.

The anniversary of the execution of th° Fenians who murdered a police constable at Manchester was celebrated by a public procession to the cemetry at Cork, where the graves of the Fenians of 1865 and 1867 were decorated with flowers.

One of the park-keepers in St James’s Park, London, noticed a dead duck floating on the ornamental water the other morning. Oilt of curiosity he held a post mortem on the bird, and to his astonishment he discovered inside a child’s toy watch.

At Leeds Assizes the other day Mr. Justice Wright described as a “public scandal” the fact that a woman who failed to find bail had been kept months in gaol awaiting her trial for bigamy. She pleaded guilty, and the Judge ordered her discharge.

The Roman Catholic Dean of Arma gh has written to the Dublin Daily Independent suggesting an address of confidence in Mr. T. Hoaly, M.P., to be “signed by every priest in the country, young and old.” This, ho says, would remove the “waspish sting inflicted on him” by envious men.

During the past year a series of experiments in tobacco culture has been carried out in Ireland. The results from twentyfive plots in various parts of the country tend to prove that tobacco can be grown there as well as in the north of France, and it now only remains to bo seen whether the half ton of tobacco leaves that has been carefully gathered this season will produce, when manufactured a “weed” of good quality. According to a law passed in 1895 no deposit account in the French Post Office Savings Bank may exceed £6O after Ist January, 1901. Some idea of the extent of French thrift may be gathered from the fact that in order to comply with this new regulation a sum of 200,000,000 francs (£8,000,000) had to be withdrawn from the Savings Banks before the end of the year.

Sir Francis Jeuno ruled in the Probate Division, London, in reference to a will made by a Volunteer without the usual formalities two days before sailing for the Cape, where he died from wounds, that from the' moment a Volunteer received his orders to go into barracks with a view to embarking he might be regarded as being on actual military service, and so was privileged to make a will as a soldier

The members of the Queensland Li* censing Commission have found it impossible to prepare their report in the further extension of time (which expired on the 14th inst,) and they have been granted a still further extension to the end of February.

SANDER & SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT’—Under the distinguished patronage of His Majesty the King of Italy, as per communication made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, through the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne, March 14, 1878. Awarded diploma at the Amsterdam Exhibition, 1883Acknowledged by Medical Clinics and Uni versities all o V er the Globe.

There are imitations of Eucalypti Extract in the market, products of simple distillation, orming crude, resinous oils. In order that these crude oils may not be taken for our purVolatile Eucalypti Extract, which is recognised by the Medical Division of the Prussian Government to be of perfectly pure origin, as per information forwarded to us through the Consul at Melbourne, March 2, 1878, we state:—

It is proved by tests made by the Medical Clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Griefswald (Prussia), and reported toby Dr Schultz Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn, and Professor Dr Mossier, Director of the Medical Clines at Griefswald, that only products that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acids resinous and other substances adherent to primary distillation, will develop the sanative qualities proper to the plant. All crude oils or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, are to be classed according to the named authoriti is, among the turpentines, which are abandoned long since as an internal medicament. TI ese crude oil, or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, are discernible :

1. By their deficiency in pungent odor (which our product, the only genuine Euoa lypli Extract, develops most freely through ts surplus oxygen.) 2. By their alcoholic, thin, and mobile appearance, being reduced to specific density through the presence of acids. 3. By their taste, the result of contract ing tendency of resins and tanats.

If these crude oils, or so-called Eucalypti Extracts, are applied by mistake in cases of croup, bronchitis, dipthcria, internal inflammation, dysentry, etc., the consequences are most appalling. For safety’s sake ask always or Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract.— Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia.—SANDEß & SONS.