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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1917, Page 3

Wanted' known, that Stevens' Health Salt dispels stomach disorders because- it dues Nature's work in Nature's way. It., is not a nauseous medicine, but a'pleasant, refreshing and most palatable drink unrivalled for sick headaches, biliousness',. etc. Only 2s for 64 doses from all" chemists and stores.—Advt. A protest against the „stoppni?e of pay a.s a punishment '"for soldiers was made at a meeting of the Claims Hoard of the Auckland Patriotic Association on Wednesday telegraphs the correspondent of the "Otago Daily Times.") if, was slated that owing to occasional misdemeanour soldiers were fined very heavily through docking their pay but*while punishing the man, his wife and dependents frequently suffered with him. The wife*-of a soldier informed the Board that her husband had been fined 150 days' pay, .and stated that she had received intimation that her allowance would consequently be stopped until the tine was made up. The Board, expressed indignation that this should be the ease, and suggested thai the military authorities might find some method of punishment other than one which would penalise women and cliil-

Ladies' Coats, all the newest goods, prices as under: Tweed Coats from I2s Oil to 80s; Black Astrakhan Coats, 52s to 90s j Sealette Coats, 80s to 100 s; threequarter length Coats, in Checks, Saxe, Brown, Navy, etc., 355, 40s, 45s each; one Fur-lined Coat, fitr coUuf, and Ail Woo] Tweed, only 8 guineas. We have also a good range of Infants' Coats isi Beaver, Nap Cloth, 4 Sorgo, Astrakhan, sizes '4O to 42 inches, from 32s 6d to 3& each. Walker's, Boundary Street.—Atlvt. Shipmasters as a rule are resourceful, and a master of a'ves* sel which was loading; wheat nt Svdney during the time of the mice plague proved no exception to the rule. The first truckload of wheat for his ship simply teemed with mice. There were hundreds of the pests, and they fell through the wharf in dozens. Others were more lucky, and some infested the clothes of the labourers, while a largo number of ennrse .cot into the hold of the ship. This proved the interesting point to the master- Cats! Many cats! was his first thought- Then, how to get them. He thought of his crew, and made known his intention of paying sixpence for each cat brought on hoard. The crew responded to the idea, and the hunt be'sran. ,• Soon after cat jNo- 1 arrived, then No. 2, and so on until a dozen had been obtained, when the captain withdrew the reward- The cats were sent down the hold to do their business. Then an entirely new phase of the mice plague *" was heard about.