NEWS AND NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1915, Page 6

NEWS AND NOTES.

Blackberries, which have spread to a great extent upon the waste lands and also upon good lands during the past few years, are threatened to be wiped out through the ravages of a grub of the caterpillar species, which has taken charge of the luscious weed in the northern part of the Grey Valley (says the Greymouth Star). At Ikamatua there is abundant evidence of the destruction made by the grub on the blackberry. The form of attack seems to be for the grub to take possession of the shoots and destroy the extremities. Large numbers of one-time extensive clumps, with hungry feeders, have been seen bearing the decided signs of decay aad defeat by tiie tiny grub. DO YOU ENjOY WHAT YOU' EAT? If you don't, your food does not do you much good. There is no way to maintain the health and strength of mind and body except nourishment. There is no way to nourish the body except through the stomach. The stomach must be kept healthy, pure, and sweet, or the strength will go down, and disease will result. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are the remedy that everyone should take when there is anything wrong with the stomach. Poor appetite, loss of strength, nervousness, headache, bad breath, heartburn, indigestion, and dyspepia are quickly relieved by the use of Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules. These Tabules represent the natural juices of digestion, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. They simply do the work of the stomach, relieving that weakened organ, and permitting it to rest and recuperate. When you take Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules, everything you eat tastes good, and every bit of the nutriment that the food contains is assimilated and appropriated by the blood and tissues. These Tabules are sold at 1/6 and 2/6 per tin. Obtainable everywhere.

A land transaction has just been settled which demonstrates conclusively the astonishing increase that has occurred in land values in mid-Canter-bury. About nine years ago an Ashburton county farmer, who was desirous of securing a larger area, sold out a small farm of first-class land and completed negotiations for the purchase of approximately 1300 acres of medium quality country, which was practically only suited for sheep fanning, at about £4 10s per acre. At that time his friends considered he had taken leave of his sensea, and condemned his transaction. He settled on his new holding, and farmed it successfully until a few days ago, when he accepted an offer of £ll per acre, or a total of over £8450 in excess of the price he paid for the land.

A LETTER ALL LADIES SHOULD READ.

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"Under troublesome climatic conditions, hot and cold, it has far exceeded my greatest expectations as I have used so many varieties of similar articles, but I must honestly and faithfully admit that your Rexona Soap stands unequalled above them all. I conscientiously think any lady who reads these few lines of gratitude, and gives your Rexona Soap one trial will echo my praises of its virtues."

Rcxona is as sweet, wholesome and pure as the mountain dew. To use it for the daily bath, or even to waßh the hands and face with it, is to furnish the skin with a tonic and antiseptic of unquestionable value. Rexona Skin and Facial Soap is a refreshing, soothing, healing, antiseptic Soap, medicated on the same principle as the famous Rexona Ointment. Price, 1/6 per tablet. Obtainable everywhere. Britain's folly in 1 allowing her enor-

mously valuable dye trade to pass almost entirely into German hands was referred to recently by Mr. W. H. P. Barber, chairman of the Wellington Woollen Company. He pointed out that over 80 per cent, of the world's dyes were supplied in recent years by Germany, and the sudden cessation of the output was a serious affair to the textile trade of the world. Fairly early after the outbreak of hostilities, 400,000 American workers were thrown out of employment, owing to the shortage of German dyes. Britain, on the outbreak of war, had textiles to the value of over one hundred millions depending on German dyes and chemicals. Even Japan, whose beautiful colouring in silks and cottons

had been a feature of artistic life for .ears, depended on Germany for woollen

dyes, to the extent of a million sterling per annum. For the best part of the last twelve months woollen manufactur-

ers the world over have had to go back twenty-five years and revive old methods if dyeing. England's free-trade policy I had had far-reaching effects, and it' would still be defended, no doubt, by many, despite the fact that because of It, she lost, among others, an industry on which so much of h«r trade depended, the connection between explosives and aniline and anthracene dyes was close, coal tar being the common base, and for months past the enormous dye works of Germany had been busy, not on dye wares, but on high explosives. At one works alone, which in normal times employed 12,000 hands, there were now 18,000 workers engaged, not on the manufacture of dyes for industrial purposes, but the making of munitions to dye Europe red. Meanwhile, British manufacturers were trying to repair this with other gigantic errors, and our people might for a period have contentedly to put up with a limited choice of white, grey, and black for suitings.

SHOULD NOT RUN ITS COURSE. Never permit a cold to run its course, for more fatalities have their origin in, or result from, a cold than any other cause. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the most prompt and effective medicine for coughs and colds. It loosens the cough, relieves the lungs, opens the secretions and aids Nature to restore the system to a healthy condition. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers. ALL WOOL VERSUS SHODDY. For some time past, especially since the outbreak of war and consequent high prices of wool, there has been a persistent effort on the part of wholesale houses and certain retail firms to foist shoddy clothing on the public at very much inflated prices. That there is no justification for this beyond a predatory desire to exploit the public is evidenced by the fact that the Melbourne Clothing Company is still selling the following all pure wool colonial clothings at antewar prices. For instance: Men's Kaiapoi suits, 29s 6d; boys' Petone Norfolk suits, size 7, 15s 6d, to size 14, 18s 9d; men's Pttoie tweed suits, 37a 6d; men's Petone saddle tweed suits, 39s 6d; men's Roslyn boxed suits, 355; boys' Roslyn sport stiitf, size 6, fts M. up to size IS 22s Gd. It was the steamer Hesperus