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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 70, 15 April 1902, Page 4

It is stated that, as soon astheManuwatu railway is taken over by the Government, the terminus of trains on the Wairarapa line will be removed from Mastert@n to.Eketahuna. The late Mr J. Goss, of Christchurch, died"- worth .£47,000"; William Hay, L 24,000; and Geoffrey Studholme, L2BOO. In addition to the above the following big estates have of late dropped into Trea surer Seddon's net with large sums of death duty :—Wm. Aitken (Auckland), L 98,000 ; and A. Wall (Wellington), Ll 6,000. Yet some pessimists think M.L. has gone bung. Spectator. California is the land of prunes. There are about 72,000 acres bearing prune trees in the State. The product varies much in different seasons. In 1900 the Californian crop was about 140,000,000 pounds. In 1891 the crop was not so heavy. A fair average crop would be about 110,000,000. The prune groves are objects of surpassing beauty either in their white robes or in their autumn raiment, when the ripening fruit is purpling amid the green foliage. The Opotiki Herald tells the following which comes from the Maori settlement of Ruatoki inland from Whakatane. A native girl had died, and after the customary tangi the funeral party started... for the grave, headed by a native band playing the no doubt inspiriting, but scarcely appropriate air, "Ta-ra-ra-de-boom-de-ay !" The ceremony over, the mourners started for home, again led by the band, which, doubtless, with a view to recompense for its previous inappropriatness, aroused the echoes with the strains of "The Girl I Left Behind Me !" CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY SAVED HIS BOY'S LIFE. "I believe I saved my (nine year old) boy's life this winter with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," says A. M. Hoppe, Rio Creek, Wis., U. S. A. . "He was so choked up with croup that he could not speak. I gave it to him freely until he vomited and in a-short time he was all right." For sale by A. Manoy, Motueka.