POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 202, 28 July 1903, Page 4

POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

“I know of a case in which a boy of 14 years in au industrial school cannot write his name.”—Mr Hanan. “ I know a little about family matters myself; we’ve got ten of them—■ [laughter]—-and I’m very pleased we have got them !”—[Hear, hear ] —Mr Witty on the population question. Mr Lewis ‘ “ The Premier talks a great deal about himself, but very little about the colony.” Mr Seddon : “Ihe greater includes the lesser.” [Laughter.] It is said that a careful counting of heads on the totalisator question shows a majority of seventeen members of the L iwer House in favor of the retention of the machine.

Mr Frederick William Theodore Machirus and Miss Harriet Ann Smith, third daughter of the late Humphry Smith of Taylorville, were married at St. Saviour’s Church, Wallsend, the Rev Mr Stace being the officiating minister. The bride looked the picture of happiness in the orthodox wreath and veil. She carried a lovely shower bouquet and was attended by Miss Janie |Waite as bridesmaid. At the conclusion of the ceremony while the register was being signed Mrs Parkinson, organist, played the Wedding March. Mr and Mrs Machirus left the Church amidst showers of rice and a host of good wishes. After a short honeymoon the happy couple journey to Westport and Millerton, their future home. They carry with them the good wishes of the whole Brunner community. Some thirty hands haue been paid off at the Seddonville State Colliery. An exchange states that the steel schooner Tasman, bound from Newfoundland to Portugal with salt fish, was recently found abandoned some 250 miles off Corunna, into which port she was towed by the steamer Cossack, of South Shields. The Tasman appeared to be quite uninjured, and on the table in the captain’s cabin was an open Bible, while the ’cabin clock was still going. The cargo is valued at £4OOO, but the cause for abandoning the vessel has never been discovered. The widow of the late General Christian Botha has taken up her permanent residence at Stellenbosch, Cape Colony, where she intends living permanently, so that her children may be educated in that scholastic centre. Christian Botha died shortly after the treaty of peace was signed. There is a story which Sir Edward Malet recalls of a situation hardly equalled in fiction. A certain cardinal at an evening party when pressed to 1 say whether he had ever received any 1 startling confessions replied that the first person who had come to him after he had taken orders desired absolution for a murder which he confessed to having committed. A gentle shudder ran through the audience. This was turned to consternation when 10 minutes later, an elderly • marquis entered the apartment, and eagerly claimed acquaintance with the cardinal. “But I see your Eminence does not remember me,” he said. “You will do so when I remind you that I was the first person who confessed to you after you entered the service of the Church !” For Influenza and Cold in the Head take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d . A Cough is Not a Disease, but a Symptom. It indicates that the lungs and bronchial tubes are inflamed. This inflammation often leads to pnenmonia. 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 sell . For Bronchial Cough , take Wood’s ( Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s \ 6d every where .