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Board on Wednesday afternoon. It was decided to further experiment with salt, which was. said to kill the thistle if applied just before it came into bloom, and to make the thistle more edible for sheep and cattle, wliich thus helped in Keeping it down. One remedy suggested was gas lime, which could be produced at a low cost and was a sure means of destroying the thistle, but unfortunately it also destroyed surrounding vegatation and in most cases did mora harm than good, A FORBES CHILD BAD WITH DIARRHOEA. " Quite recently my boy Jack wm very bad with Diarrhoea," says Mrs M. Lee, of Forbes, N.S.W. "For quite a fortnight he was ill and got down very weak. My husband bought a bottle of Chamherlaiu's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, gave him a dose and to our surprise the one.dose completely cured him. There is no lion that this remedy is quick and re-< liable." For sale by Henry Hotop, Chemist, Cromwell. While the Acclimatisation Society's men at Tariki were liberating rainbow fry the other day (says the " Stratford Post ") they noticed a small eel in the stream, and decided to catch it. About an hour afterwards they accomplished this feat, only to find that the voracious creature had swallowed eight of the youngsters. We commend the following conundrum to our readers :—" If one eel eighteen inches long can eat in one hour eight rains bow fry, how many of the thousands of infants liberated by the Acclimatisation Society will survive the year and see the fisherman's basket ? " CHILD WAS CHOKIJNG. " For the first six months of my daughter's life she was continually attacked with croup and was often black in the face from choking," writes Mrs Elizabeth Davies, 19 Browning St, Sth. Yarra, Victoria. " We did not know what to do, the Lodge medicine having failed. I then gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and we have had no trouble since." For sale by Henry Hotop, Chemist, Cromwell. The Hon. J. Millar informed a Wellington " Post " reporter that the railway revenue for the ten months of the year exceeds the estimate by £7OOO. The estimate for the yearwas £3,525,000. Mr Millar states that the actual revenue by March 31st will be not less than £3.000,000, while the percentage of expenditure to revenue will bo ' probably less and certainly not higher than in the previous year;