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

The Rev. Mr Walker, of Dunedin, has taken out the drink bill of the Colony for 1901. There was a gradual increase in the consumption for the previous five years from £2 19s B*d per head of the population in 1896 to L 3 10s 3|d in 1901 or Is 4d per head for the quinquenium. Last year this increase was not continued, the amount being L 3 9s 7|d, represented a decrease of Bd. The gross expenditure for 1901 was L 2,922,982 and 1902 L 2,953,295, an increase of L 30,316. The consumption of spirits was 602,021 gallons which at L2 per gallon gives LI 8s 8d per head ; wines, 126.440 gallons 6s per head ; imported beer 201,520 gallons, Is s|d per head ; colonial beer, 7,790,600 gallons, or .£1 14s 2d per head. • At the swimming sports held in the Wanganui Corporation baths on Saturday R. C. Murphy, a lad of eighteen years, beat the New Zealand standard time for 100 yards by four-fifths of a second, doing the distance in 64 1-5 sec. He equalled the standard in the 220yds race—2min 50see. Thieving and pocket-picking are unusually prevalent in Wellington just now. There have been many thefts at the Girls' High School. At a public entertainment the night a younoman was robbed of a purse containing ,£5, another man lost a gold-mounted cigarette case and a steamer ticket. At another place the pockets, of several ladies were picked. A number of robberies from meat i.afes have been reported within the past week. The type of volunteer who. after his first spasm of affection for the uniform has passed, tries to slip back into private life without completing his term of enlistment is not unknown in Otago, though fortunately for himself and his officers, he is, on the whole, rather rare. It is, I believe, the intention of the authorities to deal vigorously with cases of this kind, and the provisions of tho Volunteer Reflations of December, 1900, which "fix the term of enlistment at three years, will in future be strictly enforced.— Dunedin Star. There is a. nameless grave at Horseshoe Bend (Otago), which has moved the Otagans to sympathy, and a neat headstone, engraved "Somebody's darling lies buried here," has been substituted for the primitive board that marked the spot. A carrier named Engels, in Kardorf Germany, aged 60, registered lately the birth of his 30th child. He ha"s been married twice ; 17 children are of his first, and 13 of his secoud marriage all of whom are living. ' Under the heading is Coming Our Way," an American magazine chortles thus :—"ln the list of nations, the wealth of the United States stands first, England second and Frgnce thied, and the wealth of this country equals the combined wealth of the other two. New York leads London in bank clearings, and before long the tonnago of the port of New Y'ork will exceed that of England's metropolis. American financiers control the money market of the world and the Rothschild's have been forced to surrender their supremacy. Considering that we are only about a century and a quarter old,, we may be pardoned for remarking that things se o 1 SJ ; ? T x^ COmin g our way." SPRAINS are often more serious thrm broken bones on account of not beinS Pa°rßa y irnfreelv d ram Bairn freely as soon as the iniurv is received and it will quickly restore SStait? 3 hSalthy co "ditio y n T Manoy