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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 96, 15 July 1902, Page 4

A COUGH IS NOT A DISEASE, but a symptom. It indicates that the lungs arid bronchial tubes are inflamed. This inflammation often leads to pneumonia. The sure st way to ward off pneumonia is to use Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy on the first apj earance of the cough or cold. It always cm es arad cures quickly. A. Manoy sells •i*. '' ■ < ■ _ Record passages have been made by the British sailing ships Garnet Hill and Queen "Victoria, which arrived at San Francisco lately from the Orient. .They crossed the Pacific at steamboat speed," and established records that sailing ships w.ll have difficulty in beating. The Queen Victoria was 30 days coming from Shanghai, and she was seven days before she succeeded in gettihg a wind to take her clear of the .-diore. . When she found her wind she made the most of it. The Garnet Hill made her best run on the last day of the v iyage, when she logged 315 nautical miles. She left Hiago on April 23, but it was not until April 30 that she began to travel, and that day she made 300 knots. There vver : four days that she made less than 200 miles. She sailed in all 4900 nautical aides, and at times made over 16 knots an hour. The .following Maori story comes from the South : —A number of Maori sports had a tretter, which they were going to bring out at Kapaikure (Otago) Maori meeting. Shottly before the meeting they determined to give him atrial go, and then time the spin. The party could not muster a watch, but set out one morning for the j v ourse, me of the Maoris carefully , arrying an eight-day clock. As soon as the rider got on the track, he set the gee-gee going, and went off at top. Mea’nwhile the timekeeper ran across the course helter-skelter to the winning post. Just as he got there, puffing, the rider came down the straight at a bat, yelling out, “What time ! what time !” “Oh, very good time,” yelled the timekeeper. *** Subscription to MOTURKA STAR : Three Shillings and Sixpence a Quarter which may begin any time