NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 166, 15 July 1903, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The 'Frisco mail came to hand last night and wa3 promptly sorted into the boxes.

It is likely that a considerable vote will appear on the Estimates this session for the further development of the tourist resorts of the Colony.

A Vienna oable says that the late King Alexander and Queen Draga's debts in Vienna amount to £16,000. The creditors have rejected the new Government's offer to pay one-fifth of the amount.

Replying to a deputation at Wellington this week Mr J. Ward, Post master General, said that very great changes were about to be made in the telephone system, by which the ring iug of bells would be largely done away with, and the effectiveness of the system improved fifty per cent.

The number of unemployed assisted by the Departmtsnt of Labour during last month was 161 (44 married and 117 single men), and tho number of persons dependent upon them was 174. Of these applicants 73 hailed from the North Island, 65 from the South Island, one from Victoria, two from Queensland, three from Tasmania, one from South Australia and sixteen from Great Britain.

Scalds are always painful and fre quently quite serious, but Chamberlain's Pain Balm is a liniment especially suited tor such injuries. One application gives relief. Try it. J* Benning sells it.

Sir Francis Jeune never heard a more remarkable excuse for a woman's petition for divorce than that given by a lady in a New York Court recently. •'Yoer Honor," she said, "will be doing me a great favor in grantiag my petition. You see, when I.married the defendant his bright red hair harmonised beautifully with the decorations of tho house, but I bave just had it re-papered and all the furniture upholstered, mostly in green, and now his red hair clashes dreadfully with everything. You. can imagine the shock my sensitive system receives every time T see his fiery geraniumcoloured curls hanging over a seagreen couch, or flattened up against a sea-green wall paper. I gave him choice of divorce or hair dye, but he said he'd die before he'd dye, so there's nothing left but to legally give himfcherun."

The three Japanese warships which visited Sydney the other day each carried a gun the like of which has never before been seen in Australia. Tho guns ar > known as the 12.6 in, each weighs 66 tons, and couid throw a shell weighing 9901b into the heart of Sydney while the warships were standing off Coogee.

A Cough is Not a Disease, but a symptom. It indicates that the lungs and bronchial tubes are inflamed. This infiaramati n often leads to pneumonia. The surest way to ward off pneumonia is to uso Chamberlain's Cough Remedy on the first appearance of the congh or cold. Ifc always cures and cures quickly. J. Benning sells it.

Mr Andrew Rutherford, M.H.R. for Hurunui, appears to have won much favor from both sides of the House for his speech in moving the Address in-Reply. The House was full and the galleries were crowded. The Parliamentary corre pondent of the Lyttelton Times says : —" Nothing could have been more courteous than the general attitude of members, among whom "Andra" is evidently already popular. Some of his little sallies quite convulsed the House, but; there was no doubt about the heartiness and sincerity of its approval of much of what the wool king had tv say on the land queution. As he stood erect,, in full dress, with a violet and a frond of maidenhair in the lapel of his coat, a fine, tall figure, he certainly might have been anything great, a great land owner, a great parson, or a great barrister, but as soon as he reached the land question, his hearers could have no doubt as to his habitual occupation. He spoke deliberately, and his approval of an increase in the graduated land tax, and his strong advocacy of the cutting up of large estates, coming, as they did, from the owner of square miles of country, were bound to impress the House. . . . It was a heavy task for a speaker used at most to schoolroom audiences, and the big-bodied, big-hearted, longheaded wool king from the prosperous Northern district did quite well."

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and influenza* It has become famous for its cares of these diseases over a large part of the civilised world. The most flattering testimonials have been received, giving accounts of its good work; of the aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured; of severe colds that havo yielded promptly to its soothing effects, and of the'dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough, has shown that i« robs that disease of all dangerous results. It is especially prized by mothers because it contains nothing injurious and there is not the least danger in giving it, even to babies. It always cures and cures quickly. J. Benning sells it.

A Wellington business man who is in c1»36 touch with Australia, states that some large operators in the frozen rabbit trade have lately been visiting Australia, and have since come to New Zealand with a view to procuring business in this colony. Lately there have been special arrangements,made for the improved packing of Australian frozen rabbit, there being now a uniform quantity of two dozen in each case, though thesizesof theca^es vaiy. In New Zealand this alteration has nofc yet been made, the numbers per case ranging from 24, 30 and 36 to 40. The uniformity recently arrived at in Victoria has had favorable effects on the English markets, and therefore it might with advantage be adopted here. New Zealand exporters will be interested to learn (says the New Zealand Times) that an effort is to be made to induce the Government to take up the work of grading rabbits, a practice which is followed by the Victorian Government and which has had good results financially. The New Zealand Government has already done good to other industries by grading, and no doubt the advisableness of extending grading to rabbits will commend itself. It is understood that steps are being taken to curtail the export of frozen rabbit from Australia, and perhaps it would be well, if the New Zealand Department of Industries took notice of this proceeding, lest it be extended to this colony.

Gone! Vanished 1 Absolutely Cured I The old man's cough is gone. For years he was a sufferer from asthma. Now he 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 colds, cracked hands, etc. Price 1/6 at D. R. Nevison, local agent.—Advt.