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Hypodermic injections for preventing sea-sickness haive come into vogue in Trans-Atlantic liners. , "I have been employing the new method with great success," Dr. R. S. French, surgeon of the White Star liner Homeric, told a London reporter when the liner arrived from New York at Southampton early in April. "The injection used is a mixture of strychnine and atropine, a preparation of belladona, and I found passengers of both sexes preferred it to anything else." The strychnine-atropine injection soothes and tones up the whole nervous system, it is claimed, enabling it to control the muscles and the stomach.

A minor plague of mice is being experienced in Poverty Bay. Tho rodents nave not vet nearly" »cached the stage described lay one farmer, who joculany declared that they were "pulling down the did and feeble ewes," but they axe doing a. good deal of harm to the crops, especially among the pumpkins. They have burrowed into a large number of pumpkins in various paddocks and allowed the air- to decompose the vegetables, and ratting pumpkins are to be observed/all over the ,flats. In capes wihcre harvesting has gradually induced the standing crops, the last remaining patches have been found to be literally alive with field mice and rats, and the only prospect of .relief appears to be in a-wetwintet.