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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 176, 28 April 1903, Page 4

Authentic Medical Opinions worth knowing.—Dr Osborne says— "I use Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract as a spray for nasal catarrh, iolv fever, asthma, etc,, with great success. 1 find this preparation super or to all others/'—Dr Stab. : "I have used various preparations of Eucalyptus, but I get better results from Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract than from any others."-—Dr Preston :"I never use any Eucalyptus preparation other than Sander and Sons, as I found the others to be almost useless."—Dr Hart: "It goes without saying that Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract is the best in the market."—ln inilaenza, fevers, throat and lung troubles' diphtheria, diarrhoza, dysentry, kidney complaints, rheumatism, wounds, sprains ulcers, etc., it is invaluble. See that you get Sander and Sons, and reject spurious preparations which are sometimessupplied by unscrupulous dealers.

Marconi and Copenhagen financiers have arranged to despatch ethergrams between Ireland and Scotland.

Cables state that heavy snow storms in Austria caused immense destruction to vineyards and orchards*.

According to the monks of the hospice of St. Bernard, the famous dogs save on an average 20 lives per year on the- mountain.

Rain and snow is falling in South land. Much crop still to secure and a good deal to cut. Prospects for some farmers gloomy, When you go to collect a bill the man at the counter is less apt to inquire about the health of your family than when y'»u go in to pay one. There still appears to be considerable doubt as to the powers of a volunteer officer or staff of officers to enforce j obedience on the part of their subordinates. Some time ago the officer commanding a Dunedin volunteer company proceeded against a private by fine and threats of imprisonment for non-atten-dance at a camp of instruction. These steps were of no avail, and the officer commanding the battalion has now enteied the aiena to test his powers. He has served the man with two orders fining him £2 under penalty of imprisonment. It is understood that the man will also appeal against these orders and then the matter will go into the Supreme Court. For Bronchial Cough, ta,ke Woods Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d everywhere. Catarrh is Always the Result of ed cold. Chamberlain s Cough Remedy will not cure catarrh, but will cure the cold and so prevent that disagreeable malady. This remedy not duty relieves the local irritation of the throat and lungs but removes the bauses of the diseased condition. It leaves the system in a I natural and healthy condition, It always cures and cures quickly, A. Manoy sells it.

MOTUEKA MOUNTED RIFLES,

On Saturday afternoon the Motueka Mounted Rifles went into camp for one week on Mr Robert Staples' property. There are over 40 members under canvas, and Sergeant Major Healy js giving the corps useful instruction. A chuich parade was held on Sunday morning when there was a good muster. A sermon, suitable to the occasion was "preached by the Rev. Thomas Johnston in the church in High Street. At a meeting of the corps, held last evening Co-poral Waghorn was presented with the clock given by Messrs Brown and Kerr for the best score at 500 and 600 yards.

On Wednesday evening an open air concert will be held on the ground to which the public are cordially invited. As members of the corps and several well known residents have promised to contribute musical items, those who attend can depend upon spending a pleasant evening. The watering for the company is in the hands of Messrs Ryder Bros.

During the month of March the shipments of grain irom Wellington, Lyttelton, and Bluff to Australia and South Africa were wheat 13,217 tons, oats 634,986 tons. Tbe Auckland Weekly News reports that the fruit market is "heavily stocked. Prices for apples, dessert, range from is to 5s per case, cooking is to 35. " Pears, dessert, 5s to 9s, cooking 2s to 3s. The following birth notice appears in the last issue of the Auckland Weekly News :—A young milkman arrived at the residence of Charles Percy Grice, "Morn-ing-side," Wharehine, on April 3, 190tending, "in the sweet by and by," f '< for the P.A. Creamery. Under the heading, 'An Alleged NewZealand Salmon," a writer in the London Morning Leader says :—"I must have reierred in this column more than once to the apparently insuperable difficulty of acclimatising salmon in New Zealand—a difficulty which has been variously attributed to the temperature in the estuaries of those Southern rivers, or to the sharks, porpoises, and seals that abound in the surrounding seas. The latest advices from a Clnistchurch paper, however, report an alleged salmon, a fish of only and therefore in the peal, or grilse, stage, caught in the Motueka River, in which many young salmon were liberated three years back by the secretary of the Nelson Acclimatisation Society. It is to be feared however, that a closer examination of the fish must have revealed its true character as a trout. * If, however, it stood such a test at the propnr hands, then a new epoch in the history of the salmon is inaugurated." Sore and Swollen Joints, sharp, shooting pains, torturing muscles, no rest, no sleep —that means rheumatism, It is a stubborn disease to fight, but Pain Balm has conquered it thousands of times, ■ One application gives .relief, Try it A, Miuioy_ .sells. _it_

The following report of a civil case clipped irom the Wanganui Herald, is oi interest to builders and contractors ■—ln the case J. A. Petherick v W. McFadven claim £26 Ss id, judgment was given for deiendant with costs £4 16s. The claim was to recover the price ot the erection of a r:inm and other additions to the defendant s house. The defendant stipulated that new timber should be used throughout and the evidence disclosed the fact that old timber had been put in. Defendants solicitor offered plaintiff the option of putting the work right, but he refused and judgment was given for defendant! the Magistrate upholding the contention or :the defence that the contract was one •indivisible contract, and that until the Wiiole contract was performed plaintiff could not sue.

1 he very latest mean man has just come to light. He watered his wife's' medicine in order to make it spin out longer. Mr John Shearer, of Ashton, Ashburton has sold a draught stallion, M'Pherson Urant. bred bv him, to a Havvke's Bay buyer for 400 guineas.

A little cough will take you off When you the least expect it. If you don't try to make it fly, But happen to neglect it. For coughs increase, and never cease. When once their footing's sure, Yet at the start they all depart With— ' I FOOD'S GR.EAT PRPPERMIAT CURE.

For liiH'ienzti and Cold in. the J/md take IVoodf?' Great Peppermint Cure, Is Od and, 2s 6d. *** Subscription to MOTUEKA STAR—--1 hree Shillings and Sixpence a. Quarter, «j hick may begin anv time