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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 88, 17 June 1902, Page 4

The editor of the North China Daily News, in an interview at Victoria, says that was between Russia and Japan is considered inevitable, not only by Japanese, but also by Russians and all residents on the Siberian coast. Enormous preparations are being made. At Port Arthur, and elsewhere in Siberia, troops are being massed and fortifications made ready. Japan is ready to do battle at a moment’s notice. It is stated that the steel frame work in many of the big buildings in Chicago is corroding, making them very dangerous. It was stated at the annual dinner of the Chicago Real Estate Board that the steel frames in most of the buildings, instead of being embedded in had been left free to action of the air, and, in consequence, were rapidly deteriorating. Some foods are very injurious to the sight. A case was brought under the notice of an eye specialist in which the eyes of a whole family were affected by eating "rabbit pie. In each instance the patient had become afflicted with a defect of vision that is technically known as “amblobia”; Blindness resulted from eating tainted fish has been found almost impossible to cure, and quinine is also responsible for some persons’ half-blind condition. This drug affects the optic nerve in a manner that sometimes ends in blindness. There is, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, some talk of bthe freedom of the city of London being offered to Mr Seddon, whom that journal dubs “the perfervidly loval Premier of New Zealand.” The Directors of the Masterton Dairy Factory have been advised that their first shipment of butter sent Home through the firm of Messrs Pearson and Rutter realised 104 s per cwt. The top-price yet realised by colonial butter up to the piesent is 107 s per cwt. THE UNLUCKY BOY is always getting his fingers burnt, his hand cut or his shoulder sprained. His parents should keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Baim in the house. This is a liniment of superior merit. One application gives relief. Try it. A. Manoy sells it. *** Subscription to MOTUEKA STAR:— Three Shillings and Sixpence a Quarter which may begin any time