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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8175, 6 May 1895, Page 3

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ST. JACOB'S OIL IS SOLD THROUGH OUT AUSTRALASIA. IT IS THE UNIVERSAL HOUSEHOLD REMEDY FOR PAIN. HE WORLD'S PREMIEIt CURE FOR ACHES AND BRUISES. MISCELLANEOUS.

Thoro is (siys the Tuaptka Times) much diacontont in connection with (hu working of the Advances to Settlers Act in this district. Wo lnvo been informed of tho c<»6e of a settler who applied for tho loan of L 350 over 400 acres ot land, which an export valuer has stated to be woll worth Ll4OO. The settler's object in applying for the loan sras to p*y ott an existing mortgage eqml to that he asked for, on which he is paying 7 or 8 per cent. But the superintendent of the Advances to Settlers Department refused to lot him havo moio than L&00 — that is, L 350 less than a private lender gave him. Another instance was (hat of a man who applied for an advance of L 450 to pay off a mortgage for whioh ho is paying 7 per cent. His property li worth LBOO, and all the Department will advance in L 225. A third oaso is tint of a settler who applied for a loan of LBOO to pay off a mor'gage of that amount. He wai offered L4OO. Dr Plakowell recently contributed some startling letters to the Auckland Herald on the subject of infanticide. Writing on the danger of cornflour and other htarch. food for infante, he s^ys " their use causes diarrhoea, emaciation, and death ;" and. ho adds, " in many oases of * adopted 1 children, I have been perfectly satisfied that cornflour has been given with tho deliberate intention of murdering tho ohild by a poison whioh is not yot commonly reoogn'sod as one, that is cornflour. The infant is reduoed to tho lait oxtremity, and then brought to the dootor merely to obtain a certificate," Many motheri, through ignorance, starve their Infants to death through feeding them on cornflour, As * matter of fact this nourishment in auoh a diet ia contained in the added milk and tugar | the io« oalted flour if only the washed out and cflotia reilduum of other nrocum, and, I'lVtß iIQH9| il.R9t MmM»IRIB(| N *Wty