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

Persons found with housebreaking implements in their possession are now being • sentenced by the Wellington S.M. to a year's hard labour. The Japanese squadron is to visit Wellington and Auckland next month. The vessels will test Australian and New Zealand coals.

A terrific storm was experienced in Berlin. Many panes of glass were smashed. Telegraphic communication with Denmark and Russia is interrupted.

"What would you say," said the prophet of woe, "If I were to tell you that in a short space of time all the rivers in this country were to dry up ?" "I would say," replied the patient man, "go thou and do likewise." All return railway tickets in Prussia are good for at least 45 days. A band rotunda, to commemorate the King's coronation, has been opened in Gisborne.

Frog's skin, though one of est, makes also one of the toughest leathers tanned.

The Auckland City Council abattoirs are to be built at Atahuhu,, about ten miles from the city. The forthcoming Transvaal loan is quoted on the Stock Exchange at seven-eighths per cent premium.

More than 80 per cent of the sAips c f the world :are built in the British Isles.

There are some smart barbers in Eltham. A mother gave her bov threepence to get his hair cut the other day. The cute barber shaved one side of the juvenile's head and sent him home for the extra "threepenny" before finishing the contract: A Mount Gambier telegram to Melbourne Age states :—"The potato market in the south-east has a gloomy aspect, and the fall in pi ice is very disquieting to growers. It is estimated that there are about 16,000 tons in the district, and up to the present about 4000 tons have been raised from here."

Walton, the Bishop Auckland murderer, having left his possessions to his mother, she has applied for and obtain ed from the police the revolver with which he murdered his wife, child, and mother in law.

Mrs Carrie Nation, the saloonsmasher, has lately invaded San Francisco. She does not now burst into the saloono and smash bottles and glasses with a hatchet. She goes into a saloon or variety show, where drinking and singing are going on, and addresses those present in forcible terms. Here is a specimen : "Temperance," she declared, "is a moderate use of whisky. Prohibition means abstaining from the awful habit, Hell is for the temperate or licensed criminals, and heaven is for prohibitionists." A correspondent of the Southern Standard, complaining against the scheduling of ragwort a noxious weed, asserts that "it is a splendid plant when cut up amongst the horses' chaff, as it is said to be a perfect cure for botfly." The veterinary surgeons have been descanting upon its poisonous properties.

Mr A. Barclay, a Barnego (Otago) settler, has received what is probably a unique return from 28 cows—all he has on the place— during the past three months. His monthly cheques from the Stirling Dairy Factory Company have been as follows: January, .£3B 7s ; February. .£3B 4s ; March,'.£3B 3s 3d.

Baby's Cough Must Never Linger.—Nothing is more distressing than to see a helpless little infant suffering with a cough and to be fearful of using a remedy which may contain some harmful ingredient. The makers of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy positively guarantee that this preparation does not contain opium in any form, or any other harmful substance. Mothers may confidently give this remedy to their little ones. It gmes prompt relief and is perfectjy safe - Jt always cures and cures quickly. A. Manoy sells it.