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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 193, 26 June 1903, Page 4

To be arrested on a charge of holding one’s skirts too high on a rainy day suggests, of course, America. Joplin 4 Missouri, was the precise scene of the incident, and Miss Flo Russell, its victim, or heroine. It was charged against her, quite in the Addisonian style that the height at which she held them created enough commotion to amount to a disturbance of traffic. Her youth and prettiness if they did not aggravate the offence, did aggravate the commotion; and a policeman arrested her. Miss Russell, in her defence, said that she was wearing a new and particularly handsome silk petticoat, and other “things” equally new, and equally handsome, and that- she held her skirt just high enough to prevent them from being muddied, but not an inch higher. To clinch the matter, she had come diessed in the identical clothes, and was ready, if the Judge desired, to give a demonstration in court. The Judge, of course, jumped at it ; a space was cleared, and the Court became so unjudicially fascinated with the performance that it took him fifteen minutes to discharge her, with apologies. And so progress continues, oven in Ameiica. The London Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, of May 9th last, savs : —Mr Geo. Leiteh, an excellent comedian, stricken with paralysis two years ago, has returned to England quite restoied to health. The paralysis, it was feared, had permanently affected his voice, hot in his recovery this too has been quite restored. He . traces th s wonderful cure to the hot baths at R •torua, New Zealand, recommended by Mr Seddon, whom Mr Leiteh met in Melbourne. Tiie Cheviot Estate, with which the late John McKenzie pluckily began his closer settlement pel cy in Maoriland (-ays the Bulletin), had, in 1891, a population of 160 people, 51 dairy cows, 177 horses, and 82,000 she‘ep. The last census gave it 1120 people, 556 dairy cattle, 920 horses, amd 196,882 sheep ; and in the same period the grain returns have inareased threefold. The paper adds :—lf Bent wants to know how to get traffic for the unpay able Vic. railways, that's the way. Certainly the best medicine known is Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza—the relief is instantaneous in serious cases and accidents, be they wounds, burns, scalds, sprains, is the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swelling, etc., diarrhoea 4 dysentery, diseases of the kidneys, and urinray organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by his Majesty the King of Italy, and crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibitions. Insist bn getting Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract, or elso you wi'l be supplied with worthless oils. Writing on the 19th instant to a friend at Ficton a correspondent at Inglewood says :—We have harl an immense rainfall for May, 28 i inches, the heaviest spell "being fourteen inches in five days. The Unlucky Boy is always getting his fingers burnt, his hand cut or his sh oulder sprained. His parents should keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Baird in the house, This is a liniment of superior merit, One application gives relief, Try it, A, Manoy sells it,

/ Mr J.,G. Gow, commercial agent in South Africa, writing to -the Government on 31a y 12, from Capetown says “You will probably be interested in the following narrative of a little incident that recently occurred In Capetown. A banquet was arranged to take place in the city, and on the -committee of .management were several Australians, who urged with success that Australian poultry should form a prominent feature on the menu. Two of them were deputed to visit the cold storage depots to make a selection, When they visited the depot, in company, they found that tne Australian poultry was black jmd of uninviting appearance, but that the New Zealand was in excellent condition and of fine appearance; Accordingly the New Zealand poultry was selected.” - The Rev. F. W. Isitt, interviewed by the Wellington Rost, says that the Premier’s suggestion Tor substituting magistrates for elective licensing committees, and for colonial in place of local option will be determined!v opposed by the prohibition party. If he persists, the Premier will meet with such solid and energetic political opposition as he never hitherto contemplated. “I carried off all the prizes in mathematics in rnp finaj year at the University. I afterwards taught mathematics for ten years, but was obliged to give it up because I was not receiving the wages of a workman.”—From the evidence of Mr John Sutherland, M.A., before the University Commission at Melbourne recently. An Invercargill lady met with a grave misfortune recently in a verv simple wav. According to the local paper, she was visiting in a northern town, and, in leaving a house, stumbled at the doorstep and fell forward upon the stalk of a dahlia, which broke, and th e jagged end pierced her eye and destroyed the sight. An American paper shows a cable to the effect that commenting on the establishment of two American coaling stations in the Pacific Ocean, and says: With the Panama Canal, the Hawaiian Islands, Tutuila, and the Phillippines, the United States holds the most strategic points in the Western Hemisphere, where some day her supremacy will be indisputable. A curious dinner was given at Balti more, U.S . recently by Mr Ciinton Peters, a famous portrait painter. It was the thirteenth anniversary of his marriage, and fate decreed that it should fall on Friday, Mai eh 13, 1903. Added together, the numbers in the yeai produce 13, and the first ana last figures of the year also indicate the unlucky number, The home of the artist is No. 813, North Calvertgate, and the hour of dining was fixed at 7.15 p.m Add it up, and there is the number again. The letters in the name of Clinton Peters add up to 13. Mr Peters had three children (Ruth, Betty, and Jack), and the number of letters of the three names is 13. Mr Peters invited eleven guests to dine with himself and wife, so there were 13 at table. The dinner was in 1 3 courses, and the menu cards, designed by Mr Peters himself, were in the shape of tombstones. During the dinner a funeral march was played. The comp, who kissed the printer’s wife Behind the demy frisket, Said, when he bumped the bottom stair, “ I was an asterisk it !” It Will Not Do to fool with a bad cold No on can tell what the end will be Pheumonia, catarrh, chronic bronchitis and consumption invariably result from a neglected cold. As a medicine for the cure of cojds, cough and influenza, nothing can compare with Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It always cures and cures quickly. A. Manoy sells it: . Draught horses are now being brought , from Sydney to Dunedin.