CHANGE OF WATER

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 170, 7 April 1903, Page 4

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 preparatins has no equal as # cure for bowel complaints. It can not be obtained while on board the cars or steamship, and thaj is where it is most iikelyto be needed Buy a bottle before leaving home. A. Manov sells it. J

The closing of a dozen licensed houses and 10 o'clock closing in Dunedin will be the result of the recent licensing election. In view of the mandate of November bein«- repeated in several parts of Otago, the temperance people in that part of the colony intend to agitate for a new Licensing Bill being passed next session.

Such an acute depression in Tyne shipbuilding has not (says a Shields correspondent) been known to prevail for the past ten j'ears. As an evidence <f this there are 230 steamers lying idle in Shields harbour, several of which are of the latest build and of exceptionally large tonnage. The slackness in the shipping trade must be serious indeed when foreign owners are beginning to lay them up in the Tyne. * I The hand of a motorman, dead from a fractured skull, saved the lives of 20 street car passengers at Pittsburg: Lawrence, the tnotorrnan, let his car go too swiftly round the curve on an incline. As the car struck the curve he was hurled against the vestibule and his skull was fractured. Although d ad, Lawrence's hand clung to the lever, and the dead weight of his body twisted the brake so tightly that the car came to a stop. Corp »ral Hemphill, a Whangarei member of the Sixth Contingent, has been presented with the veldt cross of honour for conspicuous bravery as a despatch-carrier under General Plurneiin the Wepener district, A settler on the Waimate Plains, who has a herd of some 50 cows, intends rugging them this winter-, and is ordering the rugs from America. Others who have smaller- herds have signified their intention of following his example. The gib loaf is now being sold at 3d in one Wellington bakery. Since the opening of the Hastings abattoirs, in January, there has not been a single carcase condemned. The new White Star liner Cedric, 21,000 tons (the largest ship i u the world), completed her maiden voyage by arriving in New York harbour on the 20th February. The passengers were enthusiastic in their praise of the ship. She was as steady as a rock, it is stated, throughout the voyage, and not a single passenger on board was sea-sick. Although she met with some fresh breezes not a drop of water came on board. To inaugurate the voyage a. glass of champagne was poured over the bows of the ship as she passed Daurit's Rock. Her average speed forth e voyage was 14.43 knots. The financial year of the New- Zealand Grand Lodge of Freemasons, which ended on the 31st March, has been one of the most prosperous experienced by the order in this colony. The separate funds of the Grand Lodge have increased in the aggregate by nearly .£IBOO, chiefly through the special subscriptions made to the fund for the relief of aged and indigent Masons, which benefitted by LI 000 during the period. Arrangements are now well forward for the annual con-' ferenee of delegates from the whole of the lodges in the colony, to be held at Auckland in May. The secretary of the Grand Lodge, Mr Malcolm Ni'ccol, is to act as secretary of the conference. For Bro?ichial Cough, take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d everywhere.