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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 71, 18 April 1902, Page 5

A Wellington correspondent write s to a contemporary :—lt is whispered that the new Comi' andant has already mane his presence felt in the charmed circle of what is known as "the --headquarters' staff," and began a process of straightening out things. For a long time "Volunteer officers here have abandoned hope of getting the ear of the Comm.xndant with official communications ; they have usually been "lost" on their passage through the hands of the clerical staff, which has always been kept up to an "effective strength " Major-General Babington is understood to have indicated that recognised office hours are to be from 9 to 5, and that there shall, under no circumstance?, be an interval for afterno m tea, ;md furthermore the Commandant will, it is said, insist on Jthere being fewer references to the Ministerial head of the Department, and a little more independence.and energy on the pai t of his responsible officers.

Not long ago (says a London paper) a bishop of stately mein and sanctimonious expression went down to a small country town to lecture-, arriving early in the afternoon, an el was of cnur.-e at once spotted by the inhabitants as something particularly great and saintly. He went into a chemist' shop, and in a tone that froze the blood of the voung assistant, said, "Young mm, do you smoke ? ' "Y yes, sir," replied tie trembling youth, "I'm sorry but I learnt the habit young, and I haven't been able to get rid of it yet." "Then," said the great divine, without the movement of a muscle or the abatement of one shade e>f the awful solemnuity of his voice, "you can tell me where I can get a good cigar."

During a recent visit to the North of Auckland a member of the Wellington Post staff saw -pigs being fed on cho ce apples, peaches and plums. On expressing surprise at such a sight he was informed that owing to the freight aid low prices a large part of the proel )ce of the orchard—between 7 and 8 1-,-ms —bad been allowed to rot or used as food for the pigs. The Free Lance says that a young Wellingtonian. has written to the King as follows: please keep me a seat for i lie Coronation as near you as possible. My father is a J.P. and I have a ,b other in the New Zealand Contingents.

STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS. Henderson Grimett, of this place, \\ as stricken with partial paralysis and completely lost the use of one arm and sideAfter being treated by an eminent phvsi-e-inn for quite a while without relief, my wife recommended Chamberlain's Pain Falm, and after using two bott'cs of it he is almost entirely cured. —Geo. R. McDonald, Man, Logan Co., W. Va., U. S. A. Several other very remarkable cores of ] artial paralysis have been effected by the ise of this liniment. It is most widely Known, however, as a cure for rhe'.iniatisrri sprains and bruises. Sold by A. Manov' Motueka.