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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 697, 13 October 1909, Page 6

The hop is not oaly known as an ingredient in beerrbrewiug > its tender tops serve the Belgians for asparagus, an infusion of its flowers fields a wellknown yellow die for wool. Its stalks yield a flax that in Sweden is woven into cloth, and a bag of hops is often used in medicine to allay inflammation.

The clim ite of China is said to be not only growing colder but drier. Animals, and plauts accustomed to moist, hot regions are gradually retreating southward. Two thousand years ago the bamboo flourished in the forests of North China, but it can no lougar be found there. During a performance at the National Theatre, Marienbad, the curtain suddenly went down in the middle of an act. The manager presently explained that the curfctin raiser had received a telegram announcing that be had won £I6OO in a lottery and had dropped the curtain in his excitement.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 & 2/6

"I would like to see a Christchurch merchant try to open trade with the eastern portion of the Auckland district, and take his samples over miles of boggy roads," says a writer in the New Zealand Herald, making a spurt along an open sea beach with the surf breaking under his horses, or towing his team across wide estuaries with his buggy balanced on a narrow punt. I would like to see prosperous South Island farmers who have been used to railing their far lambs to near-by freezing works, or to carting their grain oyer magnificent roads, try driving a ljjob of " fats " from Opoliki or Whakatane to the nearest markets. They would begin to realise then the importance of this East Coast railway to the thousands of their fellowcountrymen in the eastern counties It is almost impossible to make the South Islanders of to-day comprehend the difficulties and dangers endured by a large proportion of North Islanders through lack of roads and railways. If they would consider the matter fairly and act with a reasonable amount of patriotism and public spirit they would drop some of their own extra public works and endeavour to give moderate opportunities for land communication to less fortunate districts than their own."