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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 199, 17 July 1903, Page 4

Mrs Jessie Hunt, of Sydney, is peti tioning Parliament for ,£SOOO in payment of an old alleged claim. About the year 1867, she says, the New Zealand Government offered a reward of £SOOO, to be paid to the discoverer of a payable gold mine in the neighborhood of the Thames, and in October of the sameyear petitioner’s husband discovered payable gold at Hunt’s claim, thus becoming entitled to the reward, Being then ia affluent ch cumstauces. the discoverer neglected to have the money paid to him, lout in 1871 app'ied for payment, the Government then replying that it had no funds. On a second application the Government declined to have the case reopened!. In 1884 the House refused payment bv one vote. In 1900 the applicant died® and petitioner, being now in ill-health, applies once more for payment. Mr J. S. Rutherford, the late owner of the estate which has been cut up to form the Chamberlain settlement, has promised to give ten guineas as a wedding present to the bride of every bachelor settler who marries within eighteen months of acquiring an allotment in the settlement. One of these present (says the “Lyttelton Times”) has already been made. The case of the Tottenham (England) baker who has given himselff'up to the police for the theft of a small sum of money, committed five years ago, “because his conscience pricked him,” recalls the story of the burglar who had successfully made off with a sum of between two and three hundred pounds. Shortly afterwards the victim received a letter to this effect :—“Dear Sir, — Through my conscience prikkin for the money I lobbed you of; 1 send a five pound note. Wnen~it priks again I will let you have some more—Bill Sykes.”

Mr Edison’s representative was recently in London to initiate an attempt to convert scientific Europe to faith in Mr Edison’s new electrical storage battery. “In five years’ time,” says Mr H. E. Dick, “it is likely to be a rare sight to see a vehicle of. any kind drawn by a horse in London, ami every householder will be able to have his own electric lighting plant.” A Cough is Not a Disease, but a Symptom. It indicates that the lungs and bronchial tubes are inflamed. This inflammation often leads to pneumonia. The surest way to ward off pneumonia is to use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy on the first appearance of the cough or cold. It always cures and cures quickly. A. Manoy sells "it.