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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 149, 23 January 1903, Page 4

In reply to a protest from the Hon G. Jones, of Oatnaru, against the delay which has occurred in the payment of a certain trooper’s arrears 4 and the Department’s omission to promptly enquire as to the propriety of the trooper’s demand, the Premier has forwarded the following memo :—“There have been so many over-payments that the paymaster must of necessity be careful. I haae had numerous cases in which, I regret to say, troopers have been unscrupulous both in statement and action. ‘We are onlv the agents for the Imperial Government, and it is all the more necessary that care should be exercised. I have sent your telegram on to the PaymasterGeneral for him to look into the matter and report to me. On receipt of a reply from him 1 will communicate with you again.” At the recent Thames races all the horses but Evermore fell or ran off in the steeplechase. Evermore finished alone, and his jockey after weighing m went out and caught one of the other hor.-es, Gipsy Lass, and took her past the post to secure second money. He was short weight by 21 bs, and” went out to secure another mount ; but by tbis time a jock on one of the incompetent horses had “tumbled” and managed to persuade his mount to finish, .securing second money and divi. A Zurich journal, the Freitagszeitung, in its issue of November 21 last, bears testimony to the interest New Zealand excites in Switzerland. In a paragraph dealing with lectures cn this colony delivered at the Zurich Municipal Council Chambers by Professor Heim, who. it will be remembered, visited New Zealand about a year ago to inquire into its social and industrial conditions, the Freitagszeitung announces that, in consequence of the throngs who came to hear, the manager had been compelled to airange for a repetition at 8.15 p.m. of the lectui e given at 6.50 p.m. on that day. Our Swiss contemporary also expresses the opinion that the subject matter of Prr - fessor Heim’s address was of such wide spread interest that it ought to be published for circulation in the country. Mr Wahren. a Swiss gentleman residing in Wellington, informs the Post that many of his countrymen have been turning their eyes towards New Zealand, and that some 90 r.ave arrived here during the past few months. A few of these have found employment in the city, but the majority,' being practical dairy farmers, have gone to Taranaki.

A train loaded with kegs of whiskv. has been wrecked on the Chicago and Alton line, near Upper Alton, and the absorption of the liquid flotsam and jetsam has demoralised the whole town. Upper Alton was a temperance stronghold, but since the upset of the train the town has been unable to get sober again. The local residents quietly raided the railway track and carried away the liquor in all sorts and sizes of vessels. The very cattle grazing beside the line were affected by the strongly alcoholised atmosphere. There have been indignation meetings in the churches and expulsion of those who have fallen before temptation. The Mayor has sworn in a special guard of templars of approved fidelity to protect the scene ol tke wreck from further depredations. WADES WORM FlGS—the Wotideri fsil Worm Worriers—are a safe and sun 1 remedy, in js boxes ; sold everywhere.