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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 125, 24 October 1902, Page 4

“The best thing men-san do when they get into collision with the police is to keep a perfectly civil tongue and a quiet demeanour,- and if they have any grievance to go quietly into the watch house and make their grievance known to the officer in charge,” said Mr Haselden, S.M., at the Wellington Police Court. The municipal abattoirs at Blenheim will be completed at the : beginning of next month. . The Pahiatua Herald says : Mr G. H. Drew’s incubators are hatching some queer fleaks in the shape of chickens. Some have been brought to light, bowlegged and club-footed, but the latest variety is a chicken without eyes, and no cavity, where these necessary o**bs should be. It appears quite healthy and takes its food readily with all the other birds. There are two Richmonds in the field for the post of Leader of His. Majesty’s Opposition—Mr James Allen and Mr Massey. The position has been unfilled during the whole of the moribund Parliament, but the experiment of a leaderless Opposition will not be again attempted. Details have been received of a -terrible disaster which befell a punitive expedition recently dispatched by Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, in the north-west of 'Borneo, against a head hunting tribe in his dominions. The force, which was commanded by three Englishmen, including Mr Vyner Brooke, the Rajah Mudah, or heir to the throne, while proceeding to the scene of operations, was without warning attacked by cholera, to which over one thousand, or one-twelfth of the expedition, succumbed. In a letter dated from KLuohing, the capital of Sarawak, on June 25, Mr Brooke, who had only lately gone out from England, says . —“I have ju.-t returned from the expedition against Bantin. It was a most disastrous affair, as cnolera broke out, and we lost over 1000 men in three days—-not a bad average among 12,000 men! Out of 900 boats forming the expedition only three weie left. Tne screams of the dying during the night time were simply awful, and we were very glad when our boats were turned homewards, although the smell of putrefying bodies on the way back was fearful.” A visitor who has just come from Kaiapoi informs us (Timaru Herald) thar it is a “ certainty ” that Kaiapoi will carry Prohibition. Every labourer, he says, is keenly in favour of the movement. At Dunbible, N.S.W., while Michael Dunne and Harry Callen were out shooting, a pea rifle carried by the latter accidentally went off, and the bullet struck Dunne above the heart, death following in a few minutes. An alarm of fire was sounded by a silly individual in an Eketahuna hotel at an early hour on Monday morning. The inmates of the house were thrown into a state, of consternation, and one woman fainted. The perpetrator of the practical joke got away with a. whole skin, but he did not deserve to. The largest automobile in the world and the largest combined harvester in the world, being one and the same thing, is being employed in Southern California in cutting 40,000 acres of barley. The machine consists of a traction engine capable of hauling 75 tons, and which takes the place of 60 horses, a header or mowing machine, which cuts a swath 36ft, and a threshing machine all complete. The “Labour Question” is, we know, A problem hard to solve, But if its progress is but slow, Results in time revolve. But in the case of cold or cough, ' I Results are swift and sure, 1 I If we but take to drive them off Some WOODS’ GREAT PEPPER- * MINT CURE .