GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1916, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

A <oiTospondent writes to the PalmciTton Standard: 1 -*ee that there are some eases of diphtheria tn this town. Some time ago a doctor told me that this dread complaint may easily lie averted if, as soon as the throat becomes at all rough or sore, the sull'erer would take half a teaspoonful of "flour of sulphur." It kills all germs and 1 have proved its efficacy. "METHODS DESERVE UNSTINTED [PRAISE." So writes a gentleman highly satisfied with the manner in which we removed his furniture. "Everything arrived in excellent condition," he further writes, "and although many of the articles were fragile, none of them were broken." Why not employ this first-class service. when next you remove, and ensure your tilings | being handled carefully and safely?—l The New Zealand Express Co., Ltd. Land is continuing to change hands in the Masterton and Wairarapa districts at prices which were not dreamed of a few years ago (says flip News). In one case a property was purchased seven years ago at £!) per acre. It changed hands a year or two later at £l4 per acre. Then it was sold for €2O per acre, And now an offer has been received of £42 per acre. KEEP YOUR BOWELS REGULAR. As everyone knows, the bowels are the sewerage system of the body, and it is of the greatest importance that they move once each day. If your bowels become constipated, take a dose of Chamberlain's Tablets just after supper, and they will correct- the disorder, They will keep you healthy by keeping your bowels regular. Rays the Duncdin Star/ A recruiting boom was surely ncv<r more urgently needed in Dunedin than at the present time. During the current week, out of (10 men who have faced the medical officers, only 12 have been passed as fit, and not all of these men wish to go forward to the training camp at an early date. There is a heavy shortage for the 13th draft, and rnly quick work by the recruiting committee can save the Situation. A microbe may have caused that Cough. SYKKS'S GURA COUGH will !c II the microbe, AH stores, Is Gd bottle. Coughs will be common the next few months. Their life is short when you ise SYKKS'S CUKA COUGH. Is Od'all -tore3. Says flic Wellington Post:—The world is witnessing the passing of its seaborne business into a few great groups of shipowners commanding immense capital funds, with fleets running into hundreds of thousands of tons. This will all tend to the economical working of the shipping business as such, but whether it will be to the advantage of the world or private enterprise on so vast a scale is another matter. With the experience of the past to guide us, shipping monopolies have not hitherto been an advantage, except to those directly interested in them. It is quite conceivable that Imperial, which includes Dominion, Legislatures will have some particularly knotty shipping problems to •olve when the war is over and done with. ACHING BACK. The bane alike of the housewife and of the working man. In some cases, every movement of the body is accompanied by a sharp, stabbing pain in the small of the back, and in others, the pain is dull and continuous. These arc symptoms of kidney disease. Arrest its progress by using Dr. Sheldon's Gin Pills, which will act in a surprisingly pvoiryjt manner. Price, Is Cd and 2s (id. Obtainable eeverywhere. IS YOUR TASTE FASTIDIOUS? Then drink CAMROC Dry Ginger Ale compounded from an original Belfast formula—most delicious and healthful of all drinks. We only ask a trial. At at! hotels and stores. 24 Talking the other day on the advisability of the British treating their German prisoners according to the way the Germans treat the British prisoners, a ship captain who has lived on the Continent and had come to JJunedm said: ■'To take reprisals would go Against the grain of our people —they would be ashamed to do it—but 1 think they would be justified if it would do any good I fee! sure, however, that it wouldn't. To the Prussian military, and they're on top in Germany, when a man's captured from their side he is of no further account —since he can't light he s no value; and if we were to cut the throats of every prisoner we hold it wouldn't give these fiendi.-h Prussians a moment's thought." Delightfully satisfying is Desert Gold Tea. Makes a rich, delicate, refreshing beverage. Appreciated by everyone at all times. \ 3 GREAT BOOT VALUES AT THE MELBOURNE, LTD. The Melbourne, Ltd., notify the arrival of fresh shipments of their famous men's welted boots, now '2ls per pair. These boots are fully up to their usual high standard, and at the price of one guinea compare favorably with boots sold elsewhere up to 355. Materials used are finest box calf, willow calE and glace kid, and the boots are warranted all leather throughout. Special displays of these famous guinea boots are now being made at the firm's New Plymouth, Inglewood and Stratford branches. Orders taken at other branches.