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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 61, 6 July 1908, Page 1

. Wlien next tenders are called for tlio right ;to advertise on the backs of Wellington tram tickets, a .stipulation will he, made m the coulwot txelu< ; -nv roteroiico being made in the mr.-erwe-mehts to alcoholic liquors, Tiii;. l ost states, is the ou iconic of a protest by temperance advocate, who intiihated to the Council that they were insulted when they purchased a' ticket and found on the back a printed advice to Drink Somebody's Scotch Whisky." Tho old wind-jammer is not having a very gay time just now. Australian business is bad; wheat is" unworkable: ore and coal rates are low, and orders scarce. \\ e aro very much overdone j\ nasG > there arc J'lorc steamers atitiat than' there is business for.— Syren.' . A Walsall policeman huddled himself in a bath-chair and employed a man to' push ' him" up and down a street Wiiere he thought hettim.-; wns going oil. *ie told tho.;Ylagistraie tiiat i>y this device he succeeded in getting "right under the nose" of a bookmaker whom he could hear conversing with his clients, seventeen bets being made while .he thus had him under observation. The bookmaker was fined £lO and costs. In Uganda, which a score of years ago was still under tho barbarous rule of King Mwanga, it is proposal to hold an industrial and agricultural exhibition in the Coronation Hall at Kampala early in August.