LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2767, 28 April 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con.

jpnKA\ T * Floods —An unprecedented flood 03C rre at Cootamunrlrs, Au3tr«lia, on Thuraii Paris of the town were three feet uru rw.ter. There were many narrow e_r.pes :om drowning. Thi main railway line an , branch lices have been wasted away, ard the gasworks were Hooded, the town bei g thrown in darkne s.

Teact sr's Whisky.—A very old friend of the r idents of the Peninsula is shortly payiDg visit with a view of giving the po. p'e a . reat by inducing some r.f the hotel keepers . o purchase and vend some of the celebrate' Teacher's Whiskey It is said that for mellowness purity of flavour, and life giv-or properties, this well known old spirit hr.:* established an unequalled reputation ie she Home markets.

The '-alkans. —Ibraham's execution has bean pr.---pr.ned, with a view to confronting him wi; ht he inspirer of the assassination. The " Ik iiy Chronicle " announces tk.it th? Sii ;n k***' orrlere . thp commander? to avoid h]-.< d-i ci, ai;d to treat the Albanians ps le' •■! :iy as pcsßible.

Bubonic Plague —A sensational di.iver ■ win iiidde by the health authority's on Thu'si'iv last at B isbaie. A shifiment if 15 ' cratea of unnanaß from Towrsvil.'e «a'fou id to contain a number (f rlead rut' One, which was ex.*mined. w*i° found to >c infdOted with plague. All the consignment Waa ordered to be destroyed.

Irish Fovi.rty — II;* Uo_i .. ss f Dudley *Pi eils f<>r subscription:' to e_ nbbsh nurses it he jennet li i_.li o _i; try diitricts.

J .ad It in f _s N EwsvAi'Mi — George -limdi, a well .:r*nu*n (, ( -i m nn citizen of Ni w Lebanon, 0, U. R A , is a constant ea.br of the Dnytf.n Yolk _.itunc_. Hr knows that this p p-.r f.ims to advertise only the best in ito coh_:..ns, nnd when le -aw ( hamber'ain'si Pain Bnlm advertised herein for Inme hack, ho did not hesitalf •■ buying a bottle of it for his wife, who for ei_.t_t weeks had suffered with the most torrible pairs in her hack and oou'd get no -!*e.f. He says i—"After using the Pain B.lm for a few days my wife said to m r , ' 1 feel though born anew,' and befoe usini. the entire contents of the bottle the unbear ah'e painß had entirely vanhhrd and she could take up her home-hold r'uties. He ivery thankful and licpes that all EUlTe.in likewise will heur o' her wonr'erfi.l recovers The valuable liDimer.t. is for sale by J. i* Dcrns, Chemist, Akaroa.

pR* MIFRS." PoNl'i RFM.R.— The bu'k of the

t :ne <f the Austraii-n I'romiprh' Conference was taken up ili*-cu*"ii'g the Murray R ver question, involving the us*, of water by the I ree States in 11 rested. 'Ihe result has nt y tb< en ml Usher 1 , but it is understoi d bat a satisfactory conclusion was come to.