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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVII, Issue 12789, 21 April 1902, Page 5

THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT. DRASTIC RETRENCHMENT. A HUGE DEFICIT. " United Press Association—By Electria Tolegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, April 19. A number of officers of the Works Department have been, dispensed with. It is stated that this is the beginning of a- general drastic scheme of retrenching in the Public Service. The Government is considering the advisability of closing the Bowen and other non-payable railways. The Minister of Railways informed a demuch worse condition than at any previous time, and unless there is a considerable reduction in the expenditure, as_ well as increased taxation, the Government will 'be about £BOO,OOO to the bad next year. ECZEMA, MOST TORTURING OF SKIN humours, is instantly relieved, and (speedily, permanently, and economically cured by warm baths with CUTICURA SOAP, to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales, gentle anointings with CUTICURA Ointment, tho great skin cure, ,to instantly allay itching, irritation, and inflammation, and soothe and heal, followed by full doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, to ccol and cleanso tho blood, when physicians, hospitals, and all other ra medies fail. More groat cures of torturing, disfiguring Eczema are daily niado by the CUTICURxI treatment than by all other shin B nd blood remedies combined. Price, ihr Set), Gs: or. Roup, Is; Ointment, 2s 6d; Resolvent, 2s 6d, all chemists, ; ' '.■!.... ■.■!•