GENERAL NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 16 August 1909, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

A vonng Chinaman hailing from Dunedin,"ainl who has been studying dentistry in England, returned to New Zealand'bv the Oirintliic. lie went through a full'oour.-v of training at Home, and is now a duly qualified dentist. Mr. Jamieson, an Australian from Klondvke, who has been for nine winters within I lie Arctic circle, says that the value of tin- gold from Yukon and Shagway. last year was' estimated at ovei 13,0(10.000* sterling. He lias conic to New Zealand on business connected with a hydraulic sluicing scheme ''or the Allin district.

Faith in the future of Rotonia, despite any temporary dullness, is evinced by the erection of new boarding-houses, two of which have been erected th'.s year. A third, a large one, has been tendered for, and a fourth, also a large one, is contemplated. When the usual summer rush comes on visitors may rest assured of accommodation.

The price of beer has gone up in England. In the course of a letter Mr. K. fiurgon. of Okaia'wn, states that drink is ti,xcd 3d per barrel, anil in contemplation of this tax the brewers have risen the price Os per barrel, and the hotelkccpcrs have risen the price another lis per barrel, so that between the two they are making 12s per barrel out of the'3d taxi

An epidemic of diphtheria haß broken cut in Lyttelton, and five cases have been reported in three families, one being fatal. Owing to the "(rant of an infectious diseases liospitad the cases cannot be properly isolated, and anxiety is felt lest the outbreak should spread. As it is, the treatment of the cases is putting a severe tax on the medical men, and is also interfering with their work in other directions.

Asked by a Christehurch Press reporter if there was any likelihood of New Zealand being asked to reciprocate with the Commonwealth of Australia in regard to the Australian currency, the Hon. J. A. Millar, Acting-Minister for Finance, said that he could not say whether it was likely or not, as there had been no communication from tiio Federal Government on the subject, "Take care of the pennies' and the pounds will take care of themselves," if iiTi old motto. The Te Aro Roman Catholic parish (says the Wellington Post) furnishes a case in point. Seventeen years ago the authorities started a system of Sunday penny collections in aid of the Schools of the parish. Since then the pennies have amounted to the sum of £3OOO, of which £320 was given in pennies during July. A telegram from Raleigh, West Virginia, states that a number of Italian laborers -who had been drinking beer at a local public-house became ill. Examination showed that all were suffering from the effects of poison, and an investigation o1 the barrel revealed the presence therein of a dead rattlesnake. Eight of the unfortunate men subsequently died in great agony. The others were likely to recover.

On the fertility of the unfit, meaning sparrows. Mr. T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, stated at the A. and P. Conference that, as a result of investigation, lie found that the sparrow reared about six broods a year, and by the time the sixth arrived the first-born were also taking unto themselves wives, and rearing families. The sparrow did good work in tackling the insect pest, but he charged too much for it. The average Eulish landowner says, and is supported in the saying by law, its commandments and its assumptions, 'This land is mine, on the surface and down to the centre of the earth and from the surface up to the firmament. The birds Hying above my land are my birds, Hying in mv air, and whosoever kills or catches oiie is a thief." ■• Not so," clamours the voice of the 1 Iless through all Ihe ages.* " You occupy the land under conditions. Once those conditions wi'K feudal, nmv tliey are commercial, but they exist whatever they are, and they affirm the right of the State to use, or to compel you to use, the land you occupy for the good of the people." .Statistics as to land occupation are difficult to obtain. There «i" some noble lords who hold 2.~>0,00(l acres or more each. .More than half of the land of England and Wales is .held, or "owned," as they claim, by 2300 peopK Of every hundred acres of fanning land in England and Wales, only twelve acres is owned by those who cultivate it. And the moral of it all is that a land tax is bound to come in Britain Napier Telegraph.

NO .ONE. ICXOWS THE WEIGHT OK ANOTHER MAN'S BURDEN. MANY A ONE BROUGHT TO LIGHT. You know if you have a burden to bear. You know ■where you are taxed to hear it.

You know how much trouble it gives you.

But do you know how to shake it oil? The back hears more burdens than all the human organisms. And it olijccls to it, sometimes emphatically. It aches, it pains, it is weak and lame. It is' your fault if you don't come to 'th« rescue. Perhaps you don't know how. We could tell you how, "but you might doubt, us. We'll let this man tell von, then it's easily proven. 'Mr. Glenny, Duriu Town, Wanganui, savs: ••! used Donn's Backache Kidnev Pills for pains in 'the 'back which resisted all other treatment. The pains used to be so 'bad that they nearly crippled me, and caused me 'to.' walk bent forward. I used a great many remedies before I used Doan's llackaeh'e Kidney Mils, hut (his was the oniv remedy that did me any good whatever. These pills gave me .splendid relief, and 1 can recommend them to all who suffer from the kidneys." Six years later 'Mrs. Glenny says: "The nlxive statement K Iritv, ovci" word, and 1 can state that wo have still the same good opinion of Donn's BacKilehe Kidney Pills. This remedy is excellent for the kidneys." Donn's Backnche Kidney Fills are a special medicine for the kidneys and bladder; t ]>e v are for men and women, old and ymiii'' and may V taken by all with perfect." safety. For sale by all chemists ami storekeepers nt :1s .per box [six boxes 111- (id), or will In- misled on receipt of price "by Knster-McClellan Co.. 7li, Pittstreet, Sydney. But, be sure you get MOAN'S.