STAMP-VENDING MACHINE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 52, 10 December 1909, Page 8

STAMP-VENDING MACHINE.

f'/ Mr R. J. Dickie, who, with Mr P Harry brown, of Wellington, invented "extremely ingenious automatic Stamp-vending machine, Jtias returned fejroin a trip to England and the OonIplfoeat, where fie nas. been engaged on in connection with tlie maIt is claimed that the mechanthe invention, while still retaingPtgfi&H the chief features of tlie originbeen perfected to the finest iipiiit, and is only half the size it was iPfe' l the first instance. The face of the

.machine, in which are the slots for rethe coins and offering the , v ..-,Btamps, only measures 3j inches by il inches, and tlie whole arrangement, wttioh is no more than six or seven inches in depth, can be carried in a Bioall brief bag. . - The machine from the outset refused ' to produce a stamp except for the ' penny coin only; now it shoots out auy other coin instantaneously—that is to 6ay, if a person in a hurry puts in a . - two-shilling piece, ho recfives it back the next moment, before lie has time to lament his mistake. Mr Dickie stated that the machine in England is now being run by the British Automatic Stamp Company, in which he and Mr Brown retain shares, and by the United States Automatic Vending Company in America, in which the patentees are also interested. They are now turning them out for frivate firms, clubs, gentlemen's ouses (for the concvenience of guests), and are oil a fair way to becoming a permanent and general convenience to the public.

You frequently hear of cases of chronic constipation—cases that have existed for years. In nine cases out of ten the trouble has become chronic through improper treatment. The patient has'formed the habit of taking the work of the bowels for them, weakened the bowels that they will not act naturally. _ Chamberlain's Tablets cure constipation, and cure it permanently, because., instead of doing the work of the bowe.s for them, Chamberlain's Tablets simply stimulate them to perform their own functions. For sale by G. \\. Hutchins, chemist, Balclutha.

MEN WITH THE LARGEST FEET. The popular belief that men with big feet almost invariably find their way into the police force received a partial set-back during the hearing of a case at the Central Court (Sydney) the other day. Three cabmen were charged with playing cards "to the annoyance ot passengers in St. James' Road'' at midnight. In the course of cross-examina-tion Mr R. D. Meagher asked the policeman who was conducted the proscution if there had been any real obstruction of the footpath. "Supposing the men occupied half of the footway, and allowing for the reputed size of the policemen's fc-et, could you have got past without any inconvenience?" Then the officer waxed indignant, and coloring like a red, red rose he blurted out, "My feet are not as big as most of the cabmen in Sydney." While the laughter was subsiding, the solicitor told his colleague a story alleged also to have a bearing on the subject matter of the interlude. "Do you believe in fate?" a son of the Emerald Isle was asked. "Sure, me bhoy," was the re ply, "what wud we sthand on widout 'em?"

There is no place in the world where there are more sudden and extreme changes in temperature than in Australia. We often experience a climate of three different seasons ill one day, and the result is that numbers of people contract a cold in the stomach and bowels, which causes great pain and suffering. There is nothing that will relieve this suffering so quickly as Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This is the bes; medicine in the world to cure bowel complaint in all its forms. It is a sure cure for Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Colic, and has never been known -to fail, i'or sale by G. W. Hutchins, ehemist, Balclutha.