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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 2

Particulars of an issue of .£30,000 in debentures of .£IOO each by the Oaraani Borough Council appear in our advertising columns. The debentures will bear interest at 5 per cent., free of exchange, and will be secured by a special rate over the total rateable property in the borough, in addition to the assured income from the sale of electric current from the electrical scheme for which the money is required. Applications for debentures must be made by noon on September 1, 11)15.

G/iS IN THE STOMACH IS DANGEROUS. PHYSICIANS BECOHIIEND THE USE OF MAGNESIA. Sufferers from indigestion or dyspepsia should remember that the presence of gas or wind in the stomach invariably indicates that the stomach is troubled by excessive acidity. This acid onuses the food to ferment I and the fermenting food in turn gives rise to noxious gases which distend- the stomach, hamper the normal functions of vital internal organs, cnuso acute headaches, interfere with the action of the heart, and charge the blood stream with deadly poisons, which in time must ruin the health. Physicians say that to quickly dispel a dangerous accumulation of i wind in the stomach and to stop tho l'ootl fermentation which creates the gas the acid in tho stomach must be neutralised, an.l that for this purpose there is nothing quite so good as half a teaspoonfu.l of pure bisurated magnesia, taken in a little water immediately after meals. This instantly neutralises the acid, thus stopping fermentation, an:l the formation of gas, and enables the inflamed, distended stomach to proceed with its work under natural conditions. Bisurated magnesia is obtainable in poivder or tablet form from any chemist; but as there aro many different forms of magnesia it is important that the bisurated which the physicians prescribe should be distiuqtiy aslted for, «.