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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 64, 14 September 1908, Page 5

An' impounding notice is inserted to-day.

Annual golf dance on Friday evening next, at the Oddfellows' Hall.

The members of that deserving institution, the Dannevirke Brass Band, will hold one of their popular socials at the Drill Hall on Wednesday evening. As usual, every care is being taken to make it a pronounced success. The band will supply the music, an evidence in itself that there will be nothing wanting in this important department. The floor will have special attention, and Mrs Morgan will supply the refreshments. The tickets have been fixed at a most reasonable rate, and a large attendance is assured.

The Medical Press and Circular of July 24th says openly what has long been, tacitly accepted as the truth, about Mr Joseph Chamberlain's state of health: "We are reluctantly forced to the conclusion," says the journal in question, "that the veteran statesman is very unlikely ever again to lead his followers in the Parliamentary arena, or to meet his adversaries in equal combat on thb platform. Tenderly cared for and living under, assigned conditions, there is every reason to hope that Mr Chamberlain may -be spared to us for many years to come, but we apprehend, speaking physiologically, that as a politician his active days are over." Mr Chamberlain's mental breakdown dates from his visit to South Africa after the war, and friends from Birmingham who met him on arrival at Southampton were struck by his changed appearance. Devotedly cared for by his wife, and guarded against knowledge of his condition, the former champion of many_ causes ia, perhaps for the first time since his youth, dwelling m aft atmosphere of serenity.