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Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1915, Page 5

Private Walter William Howard Woods, aged 20 years, died in Victoria. Hospital, Wellington, from meningitis on Friday morning. Deceased enlisted for the Reinforcements in the South island under the name of William Howard. Harassed municipal treasurers, remarks the Gisborno Times, struggling hard to collect the rates, may smile again. Gisborne has produced an honest man. A resident of the Mangapapa district last week received a cable message from his soldier son, who is lying wounded In a base hospital, as follows: "Pay Maungapapa rates." The clerk of 0 fthe local body had the pleasure the next day of increasing his board's balance by the amount in question. DYSENTERY. Dysentery or inflammation of the bowel in intestine is of more frequent occurence during the summer months. It can be checked if Chamberlain's C6lic and Diarrhoea Remedy is taken according to the printed directions on each bottle. Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is invaluable in all medicine chests. Get a bottle to-day—it will save much suffering. Sold everywhere. A local painter (says the Timaru Herald), found it nn expensive business to spill paint on ladies' dresses. He was painting a building in the main street this week, and it so happened that just as some ladies were walking past the building and under his ladder, the paint pot with wicked pervesity capsized and made a splash equal to the best of such happenings as seen in the picture s?,qws, The ladies' dresses received the full benefit of the full in paint, and the wearers disliked the new pattern so much that compensation claims quickly followed. it is understood that- these swallowed il lthc painters prospective profit on the job, but he gallantly pa'd up an amount which should make it unnecessary for the drapers to hold the'v usual "slimmer sales this year—presuming that the compensation money was all spent on new frocks. It is said that many laides are hoping that a similar experience will fall to their lot. The incident is another/illustration which leads some people to think that it is bad luck to walk under a ladder. 1 cannot sing the old, sweet songs Which I should sing to-night; I've lost my voice, and have no choice. Because of bronchial blight; But very soon I'll be hi tune, And sing them all, he sure. I'll change my moaus to dulcet tones. With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure*, The ways of doctors who* examine re. emits are "many and peculiar." Complaints are heard everywhere that doetors are taking the military standard for a pass too literally. A member ol the RedStai Football' Club, known lor the vigorous game he plays, and who, on the field, works twice as hard as any other member in the team, lir.« brcn "turned down" as physically iinlli. whib other members of the same team. v.\ i are unable to keep pace with him in ' "bustling game," have been accept There is probably no more dashh:;. • ' stronger forward in the Wairawtpa \ '- the player referred.to (jftj* a .MssiejUu TftßSUt