General News.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 143, 12 June 1903, Page 3

General News.

m In the House of Commons Mr Brodtick stated tbat an enormous stock of unwashed military blankets, otored at Capetown, took fire from spontaneous combustion. Eighty th msand were sold for £1495, owing to an officer's error in judgment. a timely suggestion. — This is the season of the year when the prudent and careful housewife replenishes her supply of Clamberlain's cough remedy. It is certain to be needed before the winter is over, and results are ; more prompt and satisfactory wh<n it is kept at hand and given as soon as * he cold is contracted and before it has becotr.e settled in the system. In almost every iustance a severe cold may be warded off by taking this remedy freely as Boon as the fi'sfc indication of tbe cold appears- Th".re is no danger in giving it to children f ->r it con- - tains no harmful substance. It is pleasant to take— both adults and childre i' like it. Buy it and you will g«t the best. It always cures. Sold by W. Walker, Milton. A court martial convicted nine officers of the 21st Lancers stationed *t Dublin of " ragging " Lieutenant Willows, a colonial, for not joining in their amusrmenls The commanding officer is blamed for an error of judgment, snd 1 one m jor.has been ordered to resign. Another, with two captains and four lieutenants, is ceneured, and their promotion stopped. EHETJMATISM is cured by Chamberlain's Pain "Balm. One application relieves the pain. For sale by W. Walker, Milton,