NEWS AND NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1916, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES.

In reference to the ease of Carl Seegner (late Austrian Consul at Auckland), who was recently released from internment, and about whom a question j was asked in the House of Representatives some time ago, the Hon. A. L. Herdman (AUornev-Gencral) stated on Wednesday that the facta were that Seegner was interned, but afterwards it was reported by Colonel Talbot, the principal medical 'officer, that the man, if kept confined, would die. With a view to hav- j ing the matter more closely investigated, j the Minister decided that' Surgeon-Gen- | eral Hc-r.derson should examine the man. i General Henderson did so. and on his report it was decided that the man should . he allowed to go to his own home, where I he would be watched by a constable or a j soldier. The man was suffering from j diabetes. He could not recover. He would j die. Out of a humane feeling, it was ! thought right he should be allowed to die j in his cwn home. , CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. This is not a patent medicine, it is a prescription of an eminent English specialist. For years I had been a sufferer from chronic- rheumatism. One year ago I consulted one of the leading j specialists of the Dominion (now I deceased). On receipt of postage stamps, money order, or postal notes for 4s 6d, I will post twelve doses of the remedy, which this specialist declared to be the i only thing known to science as a cure for this painful disease. F. Grcville, Editor N.Z. Dairyman, Box 502, Weilin_toii. —Advt. The utter devilUhness of German intriguers in America appear to know no limit, for one of the most despicable tiicks of the war has just been uncovered. Ten tons of tobacco, sent by Americans as gifts to British soldiers', have been found to have been drugged Immense quantities of tobacco have been despatched from Xew York to England for the British Tommies under the auspices of Allied agencies in America, and it is believed some evil-minded Germans anonyI nvously forwarded various quaitities of \ tobacco to the Allied headquarters in I New York. The "weed'' was passed through without suspicion, but when it reached London a peculiar odour was de- • tected, and after a careful examination it was discovered that ten tons of the tobacco had been drugged, and it was immediately burned by the London authorities. Xews of the foul outrage was brought to New York by passengers arriving on the Cunard liner Carpathia. A CONTINUAL ANXIETY. Coughs and colds are an anxiety to mothers as children rarely get through the winter without them. For young children a medicine that acts quickly is necessary or eronp may develop; it must ] contain no opiates and he a medicine the children like. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy acts quickly, contains no opiates, children like it and it is everywhere regarded as a certain cure for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough. Sold everyvherc. The Australian brush turkey is remarkable for the fact that, unlike other birds, it does not hatch its own eggs. It heaps up a mound of leaves and other material and allows the eggs to be hatched by the heat caused by fermentation. This peculiar habit the bird retains in captivity, as is shown by the pair of brush turkeys in Mrs. Robert's private collection at Beaumaris, near Hobart 1 -says the Hobart Mercury). Last sca- ! .■ill the cock bird gathered together about I a i'on of leaves and other material. He did all the work himself and would not let the hen come off the perch, even to feed, without chasing her away. Indeed she got so much pecked that she had to he removed. The cock is now just as busy pulling the mound to pieces as lie previously was in building it up. Unluckily, no eggs seem to have been laid in it. Don't forget, neglected cold leads to consumption. SYKES'S CURA COUGH leads to a cure. Is (id, all stores.