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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 247, 17 November 1903, Page 4

Another evidence of the shrewdness of the Seddon Government, says the London Daily Chronicle, in encouraging- the hemp-growing' industry m New Zealand, is found in the fact that during- the last twelve months hemp to the value of £750000 has been produced in the colony. A few years ago the output was insignificant ; now it looks if the farmers will really mako a good thing out of this easily grown plant. When Charles Lamb us«i to write out to his old friend Barron Field a Judge ir, Sydney in the early days, he invariably asked in a postcript, How is the hemp crop y«J[ way ■*" These inquiries puzzled the genial Judge for a long time, till one 'day a brother of the wig suggested that they might have some playful reference to the large amount of hanging that was going on, mostly through Barron Field's strong views about the proper pun-is-hment far bushrangers and kindred evildoers. No hemp was grown at the Antipodes in those days, when it was required for home consumption but the industry is now likely to become am important one now,' chiefly through tho energy of the Maoriland J'utnicr. TROUBLED WITH SCIATICA. Let Rheumo cure you ! It has cured others. The positive assurance of James A. Capper, Lyell Bay should convinc. you. Mr Capper' writing on Feb. 1, says j ' tw . trou K bled witl » sciatica pains, [t v ,bee " three 'uonths ago.and they have not returned since. if k n 1 is f, te medicine I shall go for." Mr Capper's confine© comes from expununce. Sold by chemists and stores at 2h 6U and 4s 6d per bettl#.—Advt,