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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 119, 3 October 1902, Page 4

The Wellington Trades and Labour Council has endorsed a .scheme to provide for the appointment of a permanent travelling labour organiser for the whole colony.

The main road belsw Taibape is in a fearful condition. At one spot, about four miles down the Toad, the firecarriage of a six horse waggon sank below the surface of the mud, the hind wheels being down to the axle at the same time.

Glasgow, not satisfied' with leading the world in Municipal Socialism, now has a project afoot for abolishing every remaining vestige of its dilapidated quarters ; .£! 0,000,000 is to be the cost, and that tiilie is to be raised bv a special betterment tax on ground values.

A Spectator correspondent who doesn’t believe in rabid prohibition says that, supposing alcohol is set down as a poison, the nations which most universally use it, are, and have been, the most magnificent the world has ever beheld. The Egyptian, the Jew, the Greek, the Roman of the past, the Anglo-Saxon, the Teuton, the Latin of to-day. Compare the glorious progress of these users of this poison with the stagnation of abstaining nations. There are some discontented imbeciles, he says, who would ignore the law's of God, and abolish liquor altogether. The lands of promise flowing with oils and wine must be devastated, and the happy temperate millions therein, and dependent thereon, must be sacrificed in order to try and nurse and reproduce a few degenerate interoperates, contrary to Nature’s law of the survival of the fittest. Alcohol, he contends, is poison only to the intemperate ; through it Nature’s immutable law, if not tampered with, will cause them to disappear, but if saved and pampered by artificial safeguards, they will reproduce themselves in ever increasing numbers, to the injury of the race. WHOOPING COUGH if neglected, leads to more serious diseases. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will keep the cough loose, allay the irritation and counteract any tendency toward pneumonia. It always cures and cures quickly. A. Manoy sells it. WADES WORM FlGS—the Wonderful Worm Worriers—are a safe and sure remedy, in is boxes ; sold everywhere.