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Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1916, Page 4

THE POISONIXG OF THIRTY GIRLS in a Melbourne factory by eucalyptus lqllics which were evidently made from the common eucalyptus brings home forcibly the importance of using only the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT internally. SANDER'S EXTRACT sniffed up tlie nose and three drops on sugar, is a sure and safe protection from meningitis and other infections. Applied to ulcers, .poisoned wounds, sprains, chilblains, eczema, SANDER'S EXTRACT brings quick relief and permanent <,ur«,

A Kairanga dairyman had a mixed experience the other evening. His herd of SO cows had been yarded for the 1 evening milking, when it was discovered that .something ■ln,*i gone amiss with the engine that operated the milking machine, and every effort to get it going failed. With spirits at zero, he set to work with the members of his family to milk tiie cows by hand—a big undertaking. Xews of his dilemma reached his neighbors, and in a short time he was agreeably surprised to find a party of kindly-disposed, willing helpers at hand, who assisted him out of his diffinitty in tfie geed old-fashioned way. Ajjcntleman in Auckland learned from friend who recently travelled from New York to Liverpool one of the devices used for capturing Hun submarines (says the Star). He stated that when approaching Liverpool the steamer passing through patches of sea covered, with tar. This was done for the purpose of Winding the periscope of the submarine .when it rc,S£ to the surface. According to this traveller's' statement, no fewer than 10 submarines 'bad been captured outside Liverpool shortly before the steamer arrived from ' New York.

A yqung subaltern, who is notorious for bis lapuislmcsfi, made a groat.commotion in camp a few weeks ago because ho lia4 Josjt ft ppt of face cream. Tie made himself 'so obnoxious by his constant enquiries after the missing article that his fellow-officers decided to ta'ke their tevengc. They wrote to a score or so of their friends in different parts of the' country, anil to various manufacturers of toilet requisites. For the next fortnight the dandy was bombarded by parcels of face cream, powder, cosmetics of all kinds, manufacturers' samples, until his position became so mtdlcHvbre that he made a public apology in the officers' mess, and has acted in a more t'oivsidernte manner | ever since.

'Speaking of the Somme offensive, the Sydney Sim's London correspondent says:—lt has not been all success; and our casualties have been enormous. . A! ready the total comes near to the 200,'OOO mark. But this is the price of a 'Continental army. And has not France had already more than one million men killed in this- wir, and •Germany still more? Otir failures on the Somme wee north of the Ancre. Here we dashed ourselves in vain heroiMii against impregnable positions, hardly damaged by our shell lire. Sonv? work, it is admitted, was not well done here. And j the returned generals include some wellknown names. Once aga ; n tht jrtortmw 20th Division, which landed with such gallantry at Cape Hellcs, a-nd was three times cut to-pieces o» (lalUlipK, suffered most severe tasualtie.?, and its general, Hunter Weston, lirl oeen brought home. Two -oilutf. generals are back. But such things are eSpbctod, and ltfbk of little moment when placed alongside the great and gallant work on the Soman*.

Dairy fnvmors requiring high class Jersey bulls are reminded of tlie bull fair to lie 'held .by -M,r, Kewtqji Kinj lit his Wniwakaiho yards on Monday next, October !). Tn addittn -to Messrs. H. B. I.epper and H, Spenee and other local breeders, Mr. C. F. Coulter, of" Blenheim, has bulls catalogued, "Which have been wintered in ttaana-ki and arc in good ccmd&cn. They are nearly all by the imported bulls "Kouniise Majesty" and "Somniso Jack" atid arc out x of his best cows. Buyers of Mr. (loulter's stock nt t'ormc.r sales have been more, than satisfied with their purchases and this sale >liou'lfl not be. any. exception to the. ride. Several ot the bulls are from imported blood on both sides'anil Mr. Coulter calls special attention to "Hawkeshnry Km; pcroT" and "Hawkeebury Duke." both of which are of exceptional breeding, and are fit to mate with the best of stock.