Farmers’ Losses.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2035, 21 March 1907, Page 4

Farmers’ Losses.

£200,000 to £300,000 is lost annually by stockowners of this colony. Brooders and stockowners who are sustaining losses from abortion amongst their stock are surely unjust to their own interests if they neglect the use of remedies that aro reasonably sure to eradicate these troubles from their herds. Many stockowners have tried drenches of various kinds, and have found them useless. Hundreils who have had this experience have sent for Sykes’s Drench and Sykes’s Animal Abortion Cure; sometimes as a last resort, and have always found them effective. Better use these remedies first, before wasting time and money experimenting. They aro doing the work and are saving money for others. Let them do the same for you.

Sykes’s Drench, Is 6d packet, 16s doz. Sykes’s Animal Abortion Cure, 2s Cd packet. Sold everywhere. For administering drenches, Sykes’ Drenching Horn, price Is 6d, cannot lie beaten. DR. SHELDON’S NEW DISCOVERY. Of nil the new discoveries in medical science, the most remarkable in recent years, is one which will prove invaluable to thousands of people, and which it is believed will take the place of all other remedies for the cure of coughs, colds, and consumption. The preparation is called Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption, and is a scientific compound of great merit. It is most healing to the lungs and throat, and cures the cough or cold in a remarkably short time, leaving no bad after effects. As it contains no opiates or other poisons, it is a perfectly safe remedy for children and is particularly good for croup and whooping cough. The dose is small, and it is pleasant t otake. For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist. IT DAZZLES THE WORLD. No - discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter of the interest that has been caused by Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. It has brought relief in the most hopeless cases, when all else has failed. For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist.

Now Zealand has tin area of 104,471 square miles, which supports a population of 772,719 (405,992 males and 300,727 females), or 7.159 persons per square mile. Tho population of the Australian Commonwealth (3,782,943) works out to 1.27 per square mile.

Tho folowing agricultural products wore exported from Gisborne during February, 1907:—Butter, 1022 ewt, valued at £5860; frozen hoof, 1421 ewt. valued at £1658; frozou mutton,' 15,570 carcases (8269 ewt.) valued at £10,305; legs and pieces, 191 ewt. valued at £223; frozen lamb, 9502 carcases (27J<1 ewt) valued at £4005; total value, £22,057.

For woll on towards thirty years (states tho Observer) Mr. Button has boon a well-known figure in Auckland Prior to that lie was on tho West Coast, and for some timo ho represented Hokitika in Parliament. When the late Sir Frederick Whitaker virtually dropped law practice to devote himself to Ministerial work, Mr. Button caino to Auckland and took his plaeo as tho active head of tho firm of Whitaker and Russell. Here ho has lived over since, and from the time of the death of his old chief he became, under the altered stylo of tho firm, tho actual senior partner. For ono Parliament, too, lie filled an Auckland seat in tho House. Like the last Northerner (Mr. Justice Cooper) who was called to the Bench, Mr. Justice Button has been an energetic church and philanthropic worker. His standing in tlio profession is beyond dispute, anil his high personal character should fit him eminently for judicial office..

Ballymena, County Antrim, has been tho scene of a remarkable lioax. Tho dead* walls of the town were covered with posters intimating that part of the British army abroad was having a bad time of it at several stations by reason of the wholesale depredations of rats, that this state of affairs bail caused so much concern to the War Office, that tlie idea of exporting cats had been conceived, anil that tho people in the locality were invited to collect all tlio cats they could find, sums ranging from 2s to 4s being offered for strong, healthy animals, with or without tails. Tlie poster concluded with the announcement that a War Office representative would attend at Ballymena Fair Hill oil a given date to purchase all the suitable feline specimens offered. An amazing feature of the hoax is that hundreds of sober men and practical women implicitly boliovod every word printed on tlio poster. To say that the response to tlio appeal was generous is to describe it mildly. Poulterers’ ‘carts reached the town laden with cats, and farmers’ carts were not less numerous on tlio road to the fair. Tho hour passed when tho “War Office official” had promised in tho poster to make his appearance, and there was no sign of his coming. At last it dawned on the cat collectors that they had been “sold,” and the farmers and farm servants whipped up tlieir horses and hastened homewards to get rid of their loads.

Sitting in chambers at Wellington His Honor Mr Justice Cooper, had occasion to refer to the pressure of business superimposed upon the Supreme Court judges at the present time. He said there seemed to bo really “a wave of litigation” all over the colony, and a consequent congestion of tile business of the Supreme Court. His Honor remarked that although the “long vacation” nominally extended from December 20 until February 1 he personally had enjoyed practically no vacation at all. These words are strongly in support of a statement made by Mr Martin Chapman some months ago. Mr Chapman said that when his father (the late Mr Justice Chapman) was elevated to *the Supreme Court bench in 1865, the European population of the colony was about 200,000 (actually 171,931), and tho Supreme Court judges then were Sir George Arnoy, Mr Justice Johnston, Mr Justice Richmond, and Mr Justice Gresson. The appointment of Mr Justice Chapman completed the number of five judges, regarded as sufficient in those days to deal with tlie litigants of New Zealand, but to-day the population of New Zealand is something between 800,000 and 900,000, yet the number of Supreme Court judges in actual harness is still five. His Honor tlie Chief Justice lias had assigned to him the presidentship of the Native Lands Commission, and His Honor Mr Justice Edwards is absent on a well-earned 12 months’ furlough; therefore there only remain to represent the entire judiciary of this colony their Hons. Justices Williams, Denniston, Cooper, Chapman, and Button, and the litigous claims upon their honors’ attention seem to bo accumulating to such an extent that it is almost impossible to fix dates for the hearing of cases.

On a visit to the North recently a young Now Zealander found liis way to Kororaroka (now Russell). “Wo wore in time (ho writes) to view one of New Zealand’s lovely sunsets. Oh 1 what a glorious sight for tlio poet or tlio artist 1 On landing at the historic spot where the Union Jack was first placed, one could not help feeling as a Now Zealander that there was history under our feet. The Maoris v ere assembled in large numbers to attend the sittings of tlio Native Land Court—some rejoicing, and, sorrowfully to relate, some sad. One cosmopolitan native, anxious to sec tho equal distribution of the land, enjoyed liis evening in the -capacity of billiard marker. It was very interesting inspecting tlio old weapons at Otopolio, on Motura Island, consisting of old fowling pieces, rifles, whaleboat lances, and the church hell. These aro now the property of Thiaha Hakene, formerly M.H.R. for the Bay of Islands electorate. These relics remain oil tho island unguarded, but I soon perceived that they were ‘tapued.’ Tlio fowling pieces and rifles were used in warfare in bygone years, and tlio old church bell was purchased by old Hakene from the late Archdeacon A\ illiains, as far back as the year 1836. And there it still remains in the possession of the tribe, hallowed and sacred 1 Quite a visible expression of joy gleamed momentarily in one of tlie old Maori warrior’s eyes as lie glanced at the old weapons, and detailed the brave deeds performed b.v his old colleagues. But, alas, joy soon changed to sorrow, and sorrow to tears, as ho remembered that he was one of tho last left of a great fighting tribe. ‘How I do lament.’ he feebly said, ‘when I think of tlie past, for I feel that my race is run, and though the frost- of age now shows upon me, I look to my God as the guiding star. My dead comrades and their heroic actions will over be remembered.” And then we went over to the place where the over-to-be revered Rev. Marsden preached the first sermon on New Zealand soil—words that sank deeply into tlie souls of the natives, who stood round, and never forgot, even in the time of great trouble, wliat fell from the lips of the great missionary.”

CAN YOU BLAME HER? If at last she tires of the fault-find-ing of a dyspeptic husband and leaves mm. The worst of the dyspeptic is that he does not realise his own meanness. His world is entirely out of perspective. A man is only as strong as his stomach. When the stomach is diseased all the other organs suffer. Dr. Sheldon’s Digestive Tabules are the sufferers’ tree of life. They will cure him and bring him health and happiness just as certain as he takes them. They are sure because they are a natural remedy, and contain exactly the same chemical properties as tho digestive fluids in the stomach. For sale by A. W. J. Mann, Agent, Chemist.