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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 79, 16 May 1902, Page 4

New Zealand butter has invade Ireland, where it is being pushed very hard, and as a result it is supplanting Danish in many districts. A party of two guns in the Gisborne district on the Ist instant secured 150 ducks in five hours. The sportsmen had no dog. As a result of some interesting experiments carried out in mid-ocean it has been found that battleships can be safely coaled while travelling at the rate of 10 knots. The Trafalgar anu the Empress of India were the vessels experimented on. The Lake Watatipu Mail was recently shown a number of fine specimens of trout caught- in Hayes lake by Mr White. He got a haul of over 30 fish in his nets, ranging in weight from 21b to about 261 bor 281 b. There were seme real beauties among them. Lake Hayes trout are known to possess a very delicate flavour. “I have very good reason for believing that in Sydney there are quite 3000 young girls averaging less than 5s per week, wrote Mr A.. Griffith, M.L.A., in a recent letter to the Sydney Labour Council. He further implied that some of the largest firms engaged girls at a very low rate of wages for a few months, and then dismissed them, rather than increase the rate. The Westport Times says that the labour party on the West Coast B is already making arrangements for the next general election. The paper adds that Messrs Colvin, Guinness, and Mr Seddon will have opposition. Never before, perhaps, in the history of this district, writes the Forbes local journal, have so many pastoralists been engaged in the costly work of feeding their sheep in order* to save them from starvation. At Burrawang the Messrs Edols are feeding over 30,000, and no fewer than 100 men are employed in the work. The cost will be somethin" O enormous. At Jemalong,, Mr Gatenby is feeding 20,000, while at Cadow the Messrs Jones Bros, are hand-feeding for the first time since the family took possession of the propertv. Mr O’Sullivan, of the Ne.v South Wales Ministry, has written to Lord Roseberry, one of the trustees for Mr Rhodes’s bequests, asking for LIOO,OOO to erect a statue of “Australia Facing the Dawn” in Sydney harbour.

THE BEST REMEDY for DIARRHOEA. “Some years ago while at Martinsburg, W.Va., I was taken with cholera morbus, which was followed by diarrhoea. The doctor’s medicine did me no good. I was addvise to get a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I did, and it cured me sound and well.—G. A. Morris, Embreevillej Pa., U.S.A. Sold by A. Manoy.