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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 191, 19 June 1903, Page 3

The Invercargill Licensing Committee took three hours to arrive at their decisions, and the waiting crowd, becoming impatient, broke into stamping, with the res.ult that the chairman ordered the court to be cleared. The doors were thrown open when the committee reappeared, and the crowd again rushed in. One of the applicants on being refused a renewal, burst into tears. The owner of a new twenty-flat building in Chicago, in an effort to solve the servant question which each year becomes more troublesome, has [states the London “Daily Mail’s” correspondent] set aside free of charge a suite with sunlight exposure, consisting of nine bed-rooms, a reception room, library, and bathrooms for the exclusive use of the housemaids of the tenants.

The girls are no longer obliged to receive friends in the kitchens, but at the same time they are within reach of their mistresses’ bells. The experiment is being watched with interest. . Cheery optimism characterises Mr Clement MTagge’s weather forecast for Australia for the next few years Speaking at Inverell the other night, he said that while the rainfall of this year had so far been good, that of 1904 would be better still. This improvement would probably continue in 1905 and 1906, perhaps ®1907. Unfortunately, Mr Wragge, peering into the \ future, sees beyond these fat years another period of lean ness approaching.

In 1911, he. predicts, there will be a drought, which will last until 1913. A very unfortunate occurrence took place some days ago on Mr Waller’s run, at the head of Lake Wakatipu. While bringing in the sheep after the final muster, the men behind the sheep noticed a block of some sort on ahead, and on going forward to see what was wrong they found a narrow little hollow had been filled with the foremost sheep, all smothered, and tne others were walking over the top of them. Report says there were nearly 200 killed. Felo de Se, which we’ve been told, Is meant for suicide, Applies to Jones, who caught a cold, Neglected it, and died ; Carelessness won’t make old bones, , Nor health to us secure. When you’ve a cold, don’t follow Tones, Take— WOOD’S GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE . j For Bronchial Cough , take Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d t 6d everywhere.