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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1599, 3 February 1906, Page 4

An incident in his recent election campaign mentioned by Mr J!<>g ( - r at Kketahuna excited much mirth. After acknowledging tin- liosjiitali'y shown everywhere by liis constituents, he stated that after a rather late and "fetormy night lie slept in a home, of a back woods dairy farmer. Getting up in the morning, he thought h<s would assist the farmer's wife by slicing up enough ham for the family bi-eakt'ast. "Judge my amazement," said -Mr Hogg, ''when a pan of ham, together with six eggs, had been cooked, to find the lot placed before me with the assurance that tlw family had had their regular breakfast before the milking started, two or three hours before !" "In spile of bad roads ami rough weather," said Mr ]l<rj'L r . ''l had a fair appetite, and f believe t did justice to that repas-t." Vhat'.s tin 1 matter, old boy? Why you arc as cross as a boar. Liver out of order. Well, o-et some of Dr. ('rossland's Noxo!. It will lix you :il is a qreat medicine, and it wire*. 2s, at chemists ancl stores —Advt. A newspaper proprietor in "Russia has to put up with queer things. The editor of ihe Russian ' Viedomosti/ of Moscow, was once ordered by ihe laic Grand Duke Scro-ius to insert an apology for publishing an article vellecting on that august personage, lie refused. The usual course would have been to suspend thi' 'Viedomosti's' publ ieatton. ]iut the Grand Duke feared toido th.it, knowing-that. it Mould call attention to the scandal. He therefore sent a police ollicial. Captain Svietloli'. to undertake the editifip - . . Next day. instead of a fierce reactionary outburst, there appeared an article, hinting that the Grand Dnki* ouoht io be* order *d nut of Russia. The \.orlhy jMiliccmen, it transpired, knowing nothing of journalism, had written an article which lie himself had realised to be so bad that lie had to 'jive ii for correction to-a regular member of the staff. The regular member. beina fierce correct, d il in his own way ! The \u,w -v.-r. on bcinir informed, only laughed, ami said : Serous PATENTS. To succeed commercially, your invention must be patented, and as its value d,-pend* on the specilicalion. too much care cannot be expended on ihe preparation of that document. The old-established linn of ITenry 11 u^hes. r.uildinys. Dunedin, devot.es itself exclusively to patents anh the interests of inventors, and can wmiplele your business promptly, becausk tVie Dunedin olJiee is the head ofiice v for Utairo and Southland, where specifications for patents in any countrv are prepared in touch with' you. 'Tfenry Hughes ;s absolutely the best firm for patents in New Zealand. The Gore .. repres utalive is "Mr K. C.\ Smith.