DON'T SIT IN A DRAUGHTH

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3521, 10 March 1897, Page 2

DON'T SIT IN A DRAUGHTH

If you do there will probably rest on you a cold that will require some such stimulant and health restorer as Wolfe's Schnapps to remove it.

The South Australian Minister for Agriculture is having wrappers for exported fruit printed, falling attention to the fact that tVefruit ingrown in South Australia.

In the course of an interview in Sydney, an expert declared thai ticks were carried in bags of bonedust, and that the action of New Zealand in prohibiting the ■importation of bonedust was a wise and necessary precaution. Npw South Wales would have to follow this example.

A treaty has been concluded between Russia and Japan, which maintains the autonomy of Corea under the protection of both Powers, who~will retain a small military force there.

In connection with the fine of £1,000 inflicted by the Collector !of Customs on tbe Syrain shopkeepers in Stanley street, Brisbane, it is stated that certain firms in Sydney are in the habit of supplying their Queensland customers with fictitious invoices for use at the Queensland Custom-house, with the view to defraud the Customs of a portion of ad #/jtwY/«;duties. A Syrian informer has a-pealed to the for protection, as his countrymen i threaten him with violence. I