GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1916, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Details of the damage done in Hawke's Bay by the storm of last week disclose more damage than was at first anticipated. A large area between <">kawa acd Omahu is under water. Settlers in this district report loss of stock. One man lost 400 sheep and another 2'JO. Miles of fencing was washed away. A regular torrent flowed through a house at Okawa, and the family was rescued on horseback. The whole of Pakowhai is under water; in fact, the outlook from the railway between Hastings and Xapier is one big lake. Road traffic between the two towns is impossible. The' rainfall for forty-eight hours was 4% inches. The floods are now subsiding. Reports of damage are slow to come in. Road construction between Xapier and Hastings is partly held up by the breaking of the Waitangi bridge and the Hooded roads at 'Pakowhai. Meanee is still isolated. There has .been very heavy dajuage to lambs and sheep in soma country districts. One runholder reports that he has lost 2500. CHILDREN WILL TAKE COLD. Children are always taking cold but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy quickly cures them. It is in cases of croup and ■■hooping cough that this remedy is most valued. Mothers of croupy children know it can be relied upon for quick relief. It liquifies the tough mucus of whooping cough, making it easier to expectorate and renders the paroxysms of coughing less frequent and severe. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is safe for the youngest and most delicate child. Sold everywhere. At a recruiting headquarters in England, a man who had pretended foi five minutes that he could not hear anything was given his discharge paper. He seized it eagerly, and as lie turned his back the officer said quietly, "Of course, you'll have to appear again." The recruit his rejoicing suddenly changed to doubt, wheeled round perplexedly —and was enlisted. In another case a man who was departing with his discharge paper for deafness stood exposed when he turned at the sound of some coins which chanced to fall on the ground just behind him. HER FIRST TIE. They had not been married long, and it was her first pic. He helped himself to a second piece, and smiled sweetly into her anxious face. His health was precious to her. but such heroism stirred her very soul. All doubts of his love vanished for ever. She did not know that deep in his pocket nestled a little I tin of Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules, which digest what you eat,.and so the peace of one happy home remained unbroken. Fie has no terror when Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are at hand. Price, Is Cd and 2s Ud per tin. Obtainable everywhere. A breach of.the Footwear Regulations Act was preferred against a Wellington firm of bootmakers on Friday, it being alleged that the firm had e.vposed for sale boot-.-, containing cardboard without having impressed into the outer soles particulars of the material used in letters of sullieient size. It was stated that the case was one of the first of its kind in Now Zealand. The Inspector of Footwear (Mr. V. Wilson) said that he did not wish to press for a heavy penalty. A fine of 5s was imposed. MORE WONDERFUL STILL. When you burn or scald yourself all that is necessary is to apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm. This liniment gives immediate relief, also heals the" part in one-third the time taken by any other application; but what is more wonderful still is that there is seldom any scar left after Chamberlain's Pain Balm is used Sold everywhere.

After nineteen days' hearing in the Supreme Court at Palmorston North, a record for a civil case in the Dominion, the jitrf disagreed in the ease C. H. Kpuira v. P. F. Wall, a claim for £14,000 damages to plaintiff's flax property through a fire allegedly originating at Wall's place and spreading to Spcirs' huul. Defendant denied that the fire originated on his place, this being' the main point involved.

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