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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 80, 20 May 1902, Page 4

JUMPED 0\ T A TENPENNY NAIL. lh i little daughter of Mr J. N. Powell jumped on an inverted rake made of teri penny nails, and thrust one nail entirely through her foot and a second one halfway through. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm was promptly applied and five minutes later the pa ! n had disappeared and no more suffering was experienced. In three days the child was wearing her shoe as usual and with absolutely no discomfort. Mr Powell is a well known merchant of Forkland, Va., U.S.A. Pain Balm is an antiseptic and heals such injuries without maturation and in one third the time required by the usual treatment. For sale by A. Manoy, Motueka. i “If anyone in England wants t° race Columbia I will send her over,’ said Mr J. Pierpont Morgan at the New York Yacht Club. An oppossum was killed by a dog at Doylestou, Canterbury, on Fridny. The animal was exhibited at the Leeston sale and excited a lot of curiosity, not one in twenty being able to classify it. It was variously described as a fox, weasel, stoat, mongoose, squirrel, and dingo. How it came to be at Doyleston is a complete mystery, aud it nearly bested a large sheep dog before it was killed. General de la Key, according to one of his former officers, vigorously opposed Kruger and the Boer policy before the war. When asked at the time whether he thought the Boers could ; fight England, he replied, “No, 1 do not ; and I am equally uncertain whe- ; ther England can fight us, because we ; can keep on for five years. It will cost England 100,000 men and <£500,r 000,000. r The Sunday before the general election and local option poll takes place in Wellington is to be observed as a > temperance Sunday, and the ministers 1 of all denominations are to be requested to preach a temperance sermon on that day. , At the annual meeting of the Carteri ton branch of the New Zealand Farr mers’ Union, the balance-sheet showed i a credit of 10s Bd.