AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 216, 29 May 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

j#BUTTER SHORTAGE. '.. '•;-*"/ ' : SEIZURE OF CREAM; I ' "Press Jtesoeiation —Copyright. Weed. 10 a.m.) 4 SYDNEY, This Day. Owing to the scarcity of butter a proclamation is issued to-day authorising the seizure of cream exported from Queensland. COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY. HAVE PLENTY OF SUGAR. BUTTER STILL RISING. ALL FODDER SEIZED. SYDNEY, This Day. The Colonial Sugar Company assure Mr Hall that they have-completed the purchase of sugar sufficient to overcome the shortage. A proclamation just issued, has advanced butter, whole sale and retail, a penny per pound/and another proclamation issued on Tuesday authorised the seizure of fodder. 1f ' COAL MINES CLOSED. £%; SHORT OF EXPLOSIVES. ■ .. ' '. SYDNEY, This Day.' A number of coal mines are idled through shortage of explosives. There I are 3000 miners unemployed at Newcastle. Mr. Fisher is favouring the proposal that. Australia manufacture ' her own explosives and has promised that steps will be taken to relieve the . situation. AT THE DARDANELLES. ' ! ■ I AUSTRALASIAN METHODS. i ALREADY BECOME FAMOUS. j:> '■' ■". ' (Reed. 9.20 a.m.) *~* SYDNEY, This Day. Captain Bean cables that the Australasian method of advancing may not be the safest but it is making itself famous here. They have seen all Sorts of infantry action, but none quite equalled.and a few compared with that which received its; long weary training on,, the desert round Cairo. The same was true of the stretcher-bearers of the Army Service Corps.

A PATENT MEDICINE CASE. SOME INTERESTING REVELATIONS. ■IT-'.' "■' m—~—~, SYDNEY, This Day. Under the Pure Food Act, the Crown Prosecutor proceeded against Elliott BrbsJjpbn tho ground of alleged misdescription of a patent ' medicine, Vitadatio. The Crown Prosecutor relied upon a statement in a printed pamphlet, sold with the medicine, stating that it cured Bright's Disease, Hydatids, Stricture, Cancer, .Consumption and Ringworm. Amongst expert evidence was the analysis of Dr Oooksey, which showed that Vitadatio contained 2.5 per cent, of proof spirit, also Salicylic a£id, tanninj gjentiain, sarsaparilla and senna or rhubarb. Dr. Palmer, the principal Government medical officer, declared that according to this analysis Vitadatio would not cure Bright's Disease, Hydatids, Cancer, and Consumption. He made the statement that with the exception of quinine and mercury, no drug ever cured anybody of these diseases. Other doctors supported Mr Palmer regarding the diseases mentioned.

For the defence, evidence was given in support of cures being made in Sydney. Arthur Palmer, proprietor of yitadatio, gave evidence that he was ill for 14 years in New Zealand. He was treated for dyspepsia, laver, Bright's Disease, pleurisy, and subsequently he underwent an operation at tnvercargill, which showed that he was Full of hydatid tumours. The doctor told him that the only medicines which (vould him would also kill him.

He tried "Vitadatio which cured him. He denied that Vitadatio contained tannin, rhubarb, senna, sarsaparilla or jentian. The bottle cost him a shillng, whereof the bottle was twopence, naterial threepence and labour sevenience. He declined to give the names >f certain herbs, which he said cost ilm £20,000 to get from Welber, the iriginal proprietor. The magistrate found against the endants who were merely wholesale >uyers of Vitadatio. They were orderd to pay £ls and costs.