LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2799, 14 August 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con.

A Firk on A Train—The Great Western Railway Crmpany'e special train conveying Lord Falmnnth'e household, took fire through a groom smoking in a horsebox. (Three valuable home were burned to death, and the groom wae aeriously injured.

"Th« Pervtan -The late Rim? Alpyinder and Queen Draga left VrO.OOO franfß, The Government will pay 400,000 fraro= of their debts, and hard the ba'atice to their heirs.

Fedfpal <~\ap)tal.—Pir William Lyne Btaten'hat (ho pile of the Federal Capital will be chrfi-r thip pppsior, but the question of the fxpf ' <,irp to bp incurred will be made one (f :he iteues et the ccmin/? electionp.

Abotjt Colds—ln all countries and among ftl'rniiM-iF <"f flip piobp, cough medicines are mpd nnd r-ffl prrbohly m< re extensively fr-en arv ot)pr opp o.lnss of mpdicines. Every hrman I eire if nihject to throat and laDp lrm-b?rr, which m»y terminate hie existfree. Frrplc everywhere realize the danger <nip of a reglectpd cold, for the mpjonty of fsit»]jties have their orißin in aro , arr rhprnotr rizf d first hy a simr'e cold. r jbe mrre rnrrfnl arc! prudent rerrorß do not ppimit a c>"ld to run its oourte. but treat it prnmptly. Vor rranv yep.rp rhsmberlßinlp Cnngh Bemrdy libr been in use fbrongbf-nt. the United States erd many olher countric' , , end time has proven it. to be tbp Vießt nd»ptr d of any remedy yet made for all throat and )nrs diseases, and especilly coughs, colds, croup and whoopiDg cough. Tt always cures and cures quickly. For Bf>lfl by J. S. Dodds, Chemißt, Akaroa.

GtrypowriFß Fxplosion.—There was a ereat explopion of gunpowder at Kiangui, North riiina. heard seventy miles away. No one was killed.

A Russian Consdl Killed.—A Turkish grndarme shot M. Rostkovsky, the Russian Consul at Monastir, during an altercation over an omission of greeting.