LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con-

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIV, Issue 2856, 15 March 1904, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL—Con-

Drill Ships-Tt is •atmounced in naval ■cl-cles that two of thfl Australian Squadron luve been selected* for drill ships. H.M. V \ Katocmba goes tn Victoria, and H.M.B, Tauranga te New Zealand.

Btjbonio Plaouh~A ease of piague hat ?isen discovered at Balmain, New South Wales. The patient is in a serious condition He worked in a produc3 store in Sussex street. A plague rat was discovered in the vioinlby Th" Board of Health is taking every preo u'ion.

Maovipioen't Bbqoest-Au aro-ymous ffkmor has offered oapital stifficient to raipe «ne third of the £M,tSOD required annually to bring the incom* of King Edward's Hospital fund up to £50,000 on oondition that the remainfVr is subscribed the year.

Thb Ar?hn'lO Cask—ln the arieoioal beer caße, Boßtook versus Nicholson and Rons, <ohemical nmnufnctnrera, Mr JusMoe Bruce, of the Kina's Bench Division of the High Court, awarded the plaintiffs £7000 damages in reopeot to impure *ulpburio acid cupptied to the plaintiffs, bob bn beld that, defendants were not li-hie for claims by the Wwer*, to whom.plairtiffV supplied the impurechemi" cals.

Teacbep's Wbtski,«-.A very old friend t>f the residr n's of the Peninsula is shortly paying %vi-i* with a view of piling the people a tre*fc by inducing some of the hotel keepers to -I'.rchase ami vend some of the celebrated T ncher'e Whiakey T t '« aaid tfhat for mel'.iwneßS purity of flavour, and life giving p>, r.perties, this well known old spirit has estal liahed an unequalled reputation ivt the Homo markets.

A Tragical Owing to his ex* toavagance md run, ex'Lieutenanfc Beßke, map publiehc■. Berlin, committed auicide by poison, with hi* wife and daughter, aged nineteen, af'n- poisoning his two young sons.

Could ?r*-:cKLY Walk.—Mr G. °, Purton, a ?'■ of Kyneton, Viotoria, Australia, «.- ■*: "Some t.imo apo I waa attaoked with were pains and stiffness in my legs, v! V flVe*ed me so that I could scarcely walk, vhon I was recommended to try abnHlo . f OH mbprlain's Pain B-lm by o»'.r local c!" ; «r. Mr Stredwick. I have ufpil it a c»v pirce, and have experion" cert wop.'ierf-' r- ->f. 1 am indeed grateful for the rooo it has done me and shall be happy ti rt'titivnil Chamberlain's Pain Balm to any "tie suffering from a similar complainb. For sale by J. S. Dodds, Chemist, Akaroa.

Postal Order System—ln the House of Commons, Lord Stanley, in announcing the Inception of the postal order aystem between Britain and New Zealand, expressed a hope that it would aoon be extended to India and all the Coloniec