ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 141, 18 June 1903, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

As the result of tho annual meeting of tho New Zealard Alliance, held (it DnQedia,*bhc Secfohiry wrote to the Premier asking hi:« to receive a deputaiion of delegates from all ptirtaof tho colony on tho Bfch of July, so that they might submit to him proposals for certain urgent amendments in the licensing laws. The Promier has replied that, subject to any emergency not intervening, he will be pleased to meet the deputation on the date mentioned.

Gone ! Vanished ! Absolutely Cured I Tho old man's cough is gone. For years he was a sufferer from asthma. Now ho is quite cured. Bock's balsam cured him. It has cured others; has cured thousands. Bock's Balsam cures Bronchitis in all its stages. Old standing coughs, ordinary, cold?, cracked hands, etc. Price 1/6 at D, R. Nevison, local agent.—Advt.

Sixteen young women, sent out from England by the South African Expansion Committee, recently arrived at Capetown by the s.s. Goth. The conditions of. their engagement are that they are paid a nominal wage of £4 a month, £1 of which goes to the committee to defray the expenses of the passages out. If any should wish to leave the situation to which they have been sent out, a jpayment of £25 or £30 must be made to the committee for the expenses entailed, and in the event of marriage a similar sum mast be paid. These young women constitute the first batch to be sent out by the Expansion Committee.

The Unlucky Boy is always getting his fingers burnt, his hand cut or his shoulder sprained. His parents should keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm in the house. This is a liniment of superior merit. One application gives relief. Try it, J. Bemringsells it.

Reference was*made at the meeting of the Masterton Licensing Committee to the growing evil of Maori women getting drink. Sergeant O'Malley said that the legislation oh the subject did not go far enough, as it permitted Maori women to frequent publichouses. On account of this the work of the police in detecting offences was considerably hampered. He said what was done was this : Natives, with their wahines, would go into a room in some part of the licensed premises. One of the men would call for drinks, ostensibly for the other men, but in a great number of instances the liquor was consumed by the women. The police had succeeded in getting two cases, but there was a great difficulty in connection with them.