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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 199, 17 July 1903, Page 3

In London each day 400 children are born, and 250 enter school for the first time. Bishop Neligan spoke plainly at Waihi. Addressing ‘the congregation there on a recent evening he said : It was not the clergyman’s place to say what people liked because they gave him a beggarly pittance of ,£l5O or ■£2oo a year, but to declare the®vvhole Gospel of God. the people did not like this, and refused to pay the stipend, then he would take the parson away and lock up the church. With the advent of 11 no license,” says the Ashburton Guardian, also camd a novel walking stick, especially made for the convenience! of droughty souls of ehe Ashburton electorate. The top part of the stick can be screwed off and reveals a little ‘glass, below which the traveller, after aj little manipulation, findsf the bottle. One of these ingenious contrivances was carried by a visitor to the poultry show the other day and found many admirers. In New York a house 17 storeys high is to be built on a piece of land 26ft by 48ft. Seven days was the record time in which 40 men made the new mainsail of Shamrock 111. On March 31, the close of the financial year, the National Debt amounted to Felo de Se, which we’ve been told, Is meant for suicide, Applies to Jones, who caught a cold, Negleeted it, and died ; Carelessness won’t make old bones, Nor health to us secure. Wjhen you’ve a cold, don’t follow Jones, W. A. WOODS GREAT PEP PREMIA T CURE .