NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9339, 7 January 1909, Page 7

NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The yield of the oat crops In" the Waikato, district is expected to be much above the average this season. Settlers, hojvever, state there is some difficulty in getting good harvesters, although fair are being offered;;- , The death is ."reported from Hastings of Mr JaP. Collins, aged 73. Mr Oollins was the^owner of Homewood Station, Kaikora, and was a well-known breeder of Romney sheep. He arrived in Hawke’s Bay forty years ago and in the early days was a teamster. His was the first plough used in the province. He recently gave £IOO for a shield for rifle shooting, That size and weight are not indispensible in a pedestrian was shown at the Hawera Caledonian Society’s sports on New Year’s'Day* 1 O. H. Mason, who won the half mile and the mile handicaps] off 40 and 80yds respectively) turns the scale at only 7J£ stone. He is 19 years old. A Star reporter casually heard Mason say that he only had two hoars’ sleep on Thursday night, that he was np at 4 o’clock on Friday morning, and with three others milked 60 cows, and then had a 20-mile drive to Hawera. Providing that he wasn’t funning at a fellow competitor’s expense Mason’s 7>£ stone must be pretty good staff. There was a romantic marriage at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminister, the other day, when Miss Laura Gibbs, aged seventeen, a New York heiress of great wealth, became the wife of the Rev. Charles Wm. Kirby, aged sixty-eight. The wedding marked the culmination of a pretty romance, which began when the bride was only ten years old. At that time her family were members of St. James’s Ohnrch, New York, of which Mr Kirby was assistant rector. A strong friendship developed bet wen the olerygman and the little girl, and frequently Mr Kirby, ;when be visited the home of her parents, held her on his knee and told her Bible stories. A recent wedding breakfast at Lyons,France, had a very unpleasant ending. When the meal was finished and the company were about to separate, it was discovered that there | was net enough to liquidate the ex- ‘ peases of the entertainment. The 1 bride was prepared to give np her parse, but snch a sacrifice was not to bethought of.'So it wa«pecldedgthat the company should, one by one, quietly depart, and leave the happy (sio.) couple to explain matters to the restaurant keeper. This they did, with the resultjthat he accepted the bride’s jewellery and her wreath of 1 orange blossoms as pledges that his bill would be paid in fall when Fortune smiled on the newly wedded pair. A number of complaints have been made of late with regard to the pale colour of the batter manufactured at various factories, and many consumers have an idea that an article of inferior quality is being placed ou the market. It is stated that this is not correct. The reason given for the pale colour complained of is the change in the process of manufacture that has taken place. The box ohnrn, which necessitated, the butter being worked on a table, has to a great extent been done away with, and the combined chnrner • and butter-worker installed in its ( place in many up-to-date factories. ( 'As the name Implies, the new f machinery both churns 'and works , the batter, and the ’ process has , brought about a pale prodnot. , That it is not inferior in any way is j proven by the fact that this butter is ( grading from 92 to points at , the Government grading stores, , which at this time of the year is \ decidedly good. The pale color is j favoured on the Home market, and

it is a special characteristic of the .highly-priced Danish product. A Oanfcoa correspondent sends to the Sydney Herald soma curious instances of the qaaintness and severity of mourning ceremonies in that city arising from the recent Imperial deaths. White cloths and lanterns lettered in black are suspended on all city gates, street entrances, and elsewhere. Everything of red has been converted into mourning hues of black or blue. It has been decided that all officers must conitnue to wear white for a period of 27 days, and they most not participate in feasts for 100 days. Commoners must dispense with 'tassels on their hats, and females must doif all jewellery. All marriages and music are prohibited for a month, and there must he no shaving of heads for 100 days. The regulation is causing a famine among barbers, many of whom have closed their doors. Schools have been suspended for a certain number of days, and the publication of newspapers has been forbidden for a period.

In a communication of the Berlin Medical Society, Dr. Ritter reports that after having examined the teeth of six hundred and thirtyseven persona, more than half of whom were under fifteen years of age, ho fuond only four with sound teeth. On this basis the number of individuals with their teeth in good condition is only about 6.2 per JIOOO, which shows how by exercising a scrupulous hygiene of the mouth and teeth, we have one method of keeping many diseases away. According to an estimate made by Mr B. T. Yoakum, chairman of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Raiway, American railway employees and their families will number 20,000,000—0 r one-fifth of the population—within ten years, He asserts that the next ten years will see §5,000 miles ot new railroad built in 'America, and new capital to the extent of £,200,000,000 invested in the industry. You will pay just as much for a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as for any of the other medicines, but yon save money in buying it. The saving is in what oyu get, not what yon pay. The snre-to-cure you quality is in every bottle of this remedy, and you get good results when you take it. Buying cough medicine is an important matter. Neglected colds often develop serious conditions, and when you buy a cough medicine you want to be sure you are getting one that will cure your cold. When you Jbny Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy you take no chances. It always cures. JPor sale^everywhere.