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Kaikoura Star, Volume XXII, Issue 35, 11 March 1902, Page 7

Canard liner Etruria broke her propeller 500 miles from the Azores, and was towed in by the Leyland. The Waikato left Lyttelton for London on Thursday, taking 1253 cases of apples and 50 cases of pears graded and stamped by Department of Agriculture. Baron Von Diergardt says that the struggle against alcohol was an eminently Christian enterprise. Centuries might elapse before alcoholism was entirely overcome, but he believed that alcohol would one day be universally regarded as an enemy of civilisation. In the army stationed at the Philippines a new sort of Temperance force is at work. A Kansas soldier speaks of it thus: ‘We have a lot of native soldiers enlisted here. When one of the white boys gets drunk, the Captain puts a native soldier over him, and the native puts on lots of airs while marching him round. It grinds the boys, so that they wouldn’t get drunk if they could.’ Nervousness on the platform is not easily described, although it is plain enough to its victims, but a Maori hit it off very well when asked to sing at a gathering of the Port Ahuriri Mounted Rifles’ camp. He stepped forward, hesitated, and then explained, tapping his chest, ‘By golly, me not very well, me feel just like big earthquake inside,' a unique way of expressing nervousness. The Deaf Hear.—No. (502 of ‘The Illustrated World of (52(5, Chiswick High Road, London, W.. England, contains a description of a Remarkable Cure for Deafness and Head Noises which may be carried out at the patient’s home, and which is said to be a certain cure. This number will be sent free to any deaf person sending their address to the Editor.