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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 111, 5 September 1902, Page 5

A remarkable innovation is about to be made in P.u is. The policeman on night duty are to' have electric lights on various parts of tneir uniforms and at the extremities of their batons. These will be worked by pressing a waiste >at button, and be used in the regulation of the street traffic. L. >rd Fail fax, an American citizen and a British peer, went to England to attend, the Coronation. He is employed, in a New York bank. THIS 1.3 THE. SEASON when death stalks through tne land in the form of pneuin >oia. The surest defense against this disease is Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It always cares and cures quickly. A. Manov soils- it. <V Subscription 'to. MOTU.EKA STAR: Thru • Shitting* and -a Quarter which max <1

Concerning the übiquitous Premiers and their daity “four deep” social engagements. “Dagonet” (Mr Geo R. Sims, discoursed in characteristic fashion in the London Referee :

—“ Our visitors are magnificent specio? the power of endurance of Britons beyond the seas. The amount of hard work —festive, ceremonial, and Ministerial—that they have gone through much they landed on our shores would break down any ordinary man. But the colonial Premier's beam on their hosts as benignly at 4 a.m. as at -any other hour of the day or night.. To the reception given by Sir Charles and Lady Wyndham, at the ITyde Park Hotel, at midnight most of the colonial Premiers came on from a dinner at the Constitutional Club. Some of them had also been present at a public luncheon on the same day ; others had journeyed from the Midlands direct from receiving freedoms and Mayoral hospitality. But at 2 a.m. the colonial Premiers one by one, alert, smiling, keen of eye, and fluent of tongue, and [ireposed Sir Charles’ health. And that is the sort of life-—strenuous, I really think, is the world here—that these poor Premiers have been leading for weeks past. It is understood that directly they get on board ship to return home the victims of Imperial unity will be yut on milk diet, and sent to bed every evening at nine, by order of the Board of Health and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Colonial Premiers.”

A series of extensive and systematic robberies are alleged to have occurred at Messrs Anthony Hordern and Co.’s establishment, Sydney, about <£2500 worth of goods being missed. Apparently masons are scarce in Wellington. The contractor f. r the new Town Hall there states that to enable the work to he done within contiaet time it is necessary for him to im • port the bluestone facings, notwithstanding the fact that he has to pay a duty of 25 per cent.

A return Victorian contiugenter (according to the Bulletin) announces his intention of suing the authorities for damages for the loss of three of Iris front teeth, which succumbed to the “biscuits” served to the troops m South Africa. A report on the crops in the United States for 1901 shows that in Indiana and Maryland c unbilled 2,159,000 cases of canned tomatoes were put up, the value of which to the fanner' alone was ab.mt £300,000.