OUR DEFENCE FORCES.

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 128, 4 November 1902, Page 4

OUR DEFENCE FORCES.

It has been found from recent inspection of arms that many rifles and carbines have become damaged through neglect. This not only seriously affects the shooting of the weapons, but entails serious expense. The attention of all concerned is being drawn by the Defence Department to the importance of the proper care of arms, and such steps are to he taken as %vill ensure their being kept in a serviceable condition by the individuals in whose possession they are. In future the date of annual camps of Volunteers as permitted by- regulations will be approved by officers commanding districts without reference to headquarters. The Defence Department notifies that officers commanding units will be held responsible to see that articles of "" equidment on issue to their respective units are properly marked, showing the number of the article, the number or initial letter of the company, and the initials of the battalion or regiment. WHAT IS PAIN BALM ? Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is a liniment, and while adapted to all the ordinary uses of a liniment, has qualities which distinguish it from other remedies of this class. Pain Balm is especially beneficial for rheumatism. Thousands of cases can be cited in which this remedy has effected a cure when the sufferer had previously tried the best medical service without securing relief. Pain Balm is positively guaranteed to give relief in the most severe cases of chronic or acute rheumatism. There was scarcely any drinking carried on in the House last session, says Mr T. Mackenzie. One might almost nave regarded it as a temperance House. This excellent state of affairs he largely attributes to the fact that members were not kept long hours and were not unduly worked. The session was one of the pleasantest he could recollect during the 15 years he had been associated with political life. Business was despatched with promptitude, and the utmost good-fellowship was displayed. While felling the forest on land at the back of Hamurana the workmen came across a very o’d native pah, that must date back to the very early days of the Maori migration (says the Hot Bakes Chronicle). Immediately under the pah, which is built on the edge of a very deep gully, is an immense cave or rock shelter, capable of holding a large number -of people, possibly the * whole jrnrrison of the pah. The natives living in the vicinity were not a ware of the existence of a p; h in tne locality. IVADE'S WORM FlGS—the Wonderful Worm Worriers—are a safe and store rnedy, in is boxes ; sold everywhere.