GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1916, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

The licensed victuallers of Auckland have now decided that retail prices of liquors should not be increased, but that the. quantity of spirits usually given ivnen a sixpenny glass is called for should be reduced. THE GOLDEN' AGE Lies not in the past, but in the future. It is our endeavour to move with the times, and to keep our phmt and methods abreast of them, so that business men or householders employing us get the benefit of our up-to-dateness and our progrcssivencss. Whatever we do —whether moving furniture, passing entries, sending parcels in or our of New Zealand—it is done in the best and quickest manner. The New Zealand Express Co., Ltd.

Although Auckland is .;iiov,*n a> ''Sunny Auckland,'' as many rainy days were experienced there during 11115 as m Invcrcargill. Rain to the amount of .01 or over fell during the year on ISO days in Auckland, in New Plymouth on ISO days, Gisborne 153. Wellington 167. Christchureh 110, llokitika 170, Dv.ncdin 103, and in Invercargill ISO days. 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 rel;ef. It liquifies the tough mneus 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.

A man, seventy-two years of ago, who was brought before the Wilding Court lately, on a charge of vagrancy, informed the Bench that a few years ago lie was worth £22,000, but had mot with misfortune. He had lately been working as a saddler along the Main Trunk line, but had left there with £G ti look for work. The police said that from enquiries made the man was industrious and of good character. The presiding Justices, Messrs Pirani and Atkinson, decided to pay the man's fare back to the town whence he came, out of their own pockets. The police undertook to see he was taken care of on >.r-

riving at his destination, MORk WONDEhVOL 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 ; 'okl everywhere. "If we want to get the essential contrast between the British and the German spirit, we have only to imagine what kind of measures would have been prescribed in Berlin if a rising had taken place in Prussian -Poland during the last few weeks, and then consider the manner and temper in which our House of Commons approached the Irish question," >ays the Westminster Gazette.