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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 147, 16 January 1903, Page 5

A Masterton poultry-keeper, during the last year, obtained some 3500 eggs from twenty fowls. According to the market price of eggs, he cleared about 8s on each fowl.

c John Chalmers, the missionary friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, and every inch a man, once telegraphed to England : “Getting in trim for next session. Ask Jones send one gross of tomahawks, one gross butchers’ knives. Going East, try make friends between London was convulsed oyer the missionary’s peculiar way of promoting friendship with the New Guinea cannibals.

Mr R. H. Rhodes’ expenses of controlling the Ellesmere election were <£33 5s 4d,

Forty six thousand persons were carried on the Auckland electric trains on Boxing Day. Despite unfavorable weather, there will be a record yield of fruit from Hastings this year. The Hawkes Bav Fruitgrowers’ Company has (savs the Hastings Standard) established “a distributing centre in Hastings, which finds the best market and disposes of the fruit according to quality. Practically the whole of the Hawkes Bay crop is controlled by this company, whose traveller is at present working the districts of Taranaki and Welling” ton for the purpose of opening up markets in places where fruit is never grown The company is in a position through its agents to test the markets in various parts of the colony, thus making at all periods the best possible sale for the producer and likewise is the growing of fr nits being systematised those varieties being encouraged which are most suited to the particular district, and which cannot be so profitably grown elsewhere. J Upwards of £2OOO was paid to sleeper-getters at Wee Waa, New South Wales, in one week lately. The Premier, in replying to the toast of his health at Hokitika, declared that in his opinion the Legislative Council should be an elective bodv.

CHANGE OF WATER

Often brings on diarrhoea. For this reason many experienced travellers carry a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with them to be used in case of an emergency. This preparation has no equal as a cure for bowel complaints. It can not be obtained while on board the cars or steamship, and that is W v. e ’V s likei y to be needed. Buy sefl? t & befDre leaVmg home ' A * Manoy