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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 97, 18 July 1902, Page 5

A recently-published list of Mr Carnegie’s gifts shows that he has given away more than 67.000,000d0l of his fortune since he determined, several years ago, to devote a large percentage of his wealth to public uses. The amount is divided pretty evenly between the establishment of free libraries and the advancement of education. It is only within the ; last year, however, that the cause of education has benefited by him, but within that time he has given 2 0,000, ooodol (L400VC00) in two gifts, one to the Scottish Universities and the other for the establishment of a national University of Research in Washington, The Johannesburg Star styles the Hon. F. J. Seddon The New Zealand larrikin.” A report from Adelaide says that the fishing cutter Lord Roberts, when ten miles wes of Willunga, was struck by a terrific squall, which carried away the mainsail and smashed the rudder. Two men who iormed the crew of the tiny graft, managed to set t lie mizzeh s aysail, by the aid 01 which the boat scudded towards Myponga Jetty. The boat struck the jetty with such lorce that the whole structnre 2Soft long, was carried away, while the cutter itself was dashed to pieces on the rocks. The two men managed to get ashore on the broken jetty, the piles of which were floating in the vicinity. Some years ago an Englishman visited Washington, and met a statesman belonging to the minority party, who gave a most startling account of the corruption existing in the Government, and the terrible struggle he had against it. “Do you mean to say, sir,” asked the stranger, seriously, “that you are the only honest man in the American Government V” “Well,” replied the statesman, stroking his beard, meditatively, “I wouldn’t go so far as that. There may be four or five somewhere.” The Times, in a leading article on education in America, says : --“ Nothing promi es to be a. greater help to the progress of the Un.ted States than the care which is bestowed upon the training of her future citizens in whatever station of life they may be placed ; and there are no questions concerning which we ourselves, and the older nations immediately around us, have greater need to he guided by all the light which science and observation j can supply than in those which have relation to the preparation of our children to retain, in the world around them, the places which have been won bv their fathers. The conditions of the struggle for these places have changed in many respects, and th se -,vhe are called upon to take part in it must change with their environment if their position is to he maintained.” It does not seem to he generally knjwn that what was known as “ arm to ! rm” vaccination is foi bidden by the Public Health Act, 1901 T ere is a penalty not exceeding .£'lo to which any , -rson who uses lymph, other than pure ' a *cine lymph, is liable. The Government supply medical practioners free with that lymph. SCALDS are always painful and frequently quite serious, but Chamberlain s Pain Balm is a liniment especially suited for such injuries. One application gives relief. Try b. A. Manoy sells it. TOOTHACHE is a severe test of a man’s philosophy. A simply remedy is to saturate a piece of cotton. with Chamber--1 1 n s Pain Balm and place it in the cavity o' the affected tooth. One application gives relief. Try it. A. Manoy sells it.