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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 50, 4 February 1902, Page 3

It is stated that the Defence Department intends to spend ,£2OOO providing fresh uniforms for members of contingents in South Africa.

In presenting an account of 4s for sweeping t.vo chimneys at the Kaiapoi School, the chairman said the earthqurke had swept five other flues of the building free of charge.

A prescription for sea-sick ness, warranted by a correspondent of a New York paper, may be .found worthy of notice, as it is at any rate simple" and inexpensive. He "reports that the secret is to breathe with the ship. As the ship falls he breathes out, and as it rises he breathes in. He declares that he finds now that nothings pleasanter to him than a lon a- sea voyage. °

Major Steward, M.H.R., "who has just returned from a visit to the Chatham Islands, says that the islanders would be pleased to have a thousand Boer prisoners quartered on the islands, as the prisoners, with a ship of war and two or three companies of infantry to watch them, would provide a market for farm and garden produce Major Steward thinks the Chathams would be* a good gaol for prisoners of war, as they could not get away, and could be easily guarded. According to the London Daily Mail, Germany is about to establish coaling depots in several parts of the Pacific, Samoa being one of the main stations. The coal will be brought from Shantung. The Chinese mines are said to be able to supply the whole of the Pacific requirements". Captain Russell has informed the Hastings Standard that he has no intention of dissociating himself from politics, and the rumours to that effect ' have absolutely no foundation. The maximum salary allowed to Victorian public school teachers under the new Bill is ,£432. Pupil teachers receive for the first two years—males from £BO to .£4O per annum, females from £24 to L 32.

Thirty years ago Lord Kitchener tossed up a coin, "heads for the Army tails for New Zealand " Heads won it. He has eighteen relatives in New Zealand, however.

An example of the working of Maori old-age pensions at Opotiki : A European settler sold ;i comfortable buggy to a native, the said native un- ! dertaking to pay so much per month ■ out of his pension until the price of the vehicle is made up. ' A branch of the New Zealand Socialistic party has been started in Chnstchurch.

! The Dunedin public subscribed L4OO j for Trooper Beath, of the Fourth Coav ! tangent, who lost an arm in action