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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 5

It is just eighty years since the first Cunard liner Britannia sailed from Liverpool for Boston and Halifax, says a Home paper. She was one of the first paddle steamers built on the Clyde to carry out the first contract made with the Admiralty for the conveyance of the trans-Atlantic mails by steamship. One of the earliest of the Canard’s many distinguished passengers was Charles Dickens, who crossed in the Britannia, with his wife in January. 1842, and described his cabin as an ‘‘utterly impracticable, thoroughly hopeless, and profoundly preposterous box,” and the saloon as ‘‘a long, narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse, with windows in the side.” But the Britannia’s gross tonange was only 1.154, as compared with the.Berengaria’s 52,117, and her speed 8-£ knots, as against the 27 of the Mauretania, which has steamed from Queenstown to New York in 4 days 10 hours 41 minutes, a world’s record. THEY DO MOKE. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the onlv requisites for good health are fresh air, exercise and nourishing food. None of these will help you mifch if your digestion is faulty and your boAvels constipated. Chamberlain’s Tablets, by promoting proper digestion and a regular habit of the bowels, will do more towards keeping you in good healh than any other preparation. Sold everywhere.—Advt.