NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 169, 18 July 1903, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

New lines of boots and shoes are advertised by the New Zealand OJothiug Factory. * ■ The Post Office advises that the Sonoma left San Franoisco on tho 16th instant at 2 p.m. • The winter sale of drapory at Messrs Smale & Hay's London House commences on Monday. Da Mackenzie, who went to South Africa as Surgeon-Major of the Tenth New Zealand Contingent, and has since the war been studying his specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, nose, :vnd throat in the hospitals of London aud the Continent, has returned to his practice in Wellington. It is understood that the Welling-ton-Ha velock-Motueka Steamship Co. have approached the Government with a view to extending their mail contract so as to include a monthly sei" Tic© to Kenepuru Bound,

The Garrison Band will render the following programme in Market Place to-night : — Polka-march, " Copenhagen" ; waltz, "Hearts of Gold"; overture, " Prince Oregon" ; quick march, " Occidental "; gavotte," Heather Blossom"; "Bostonian Polka"; march, " Washington City." Mr J. S. Rutherford, the late owner of the estate which has been cut up to form the Chamberlain Settlement, has promised to give ten guineas as a wedding present to the bride of every bachelor settler who marries within eighteen months of acquiring an allot* ment in the settlement. Another excellent model has been completed by Mr C. Davis, the subject being The Brothers lighthouse. The lonely sentinel of the sea has been represented with remarkable fidelity to detail, and the work shows quite a unique talent. The model has beenon view in the window of Mr T, Batty's shop. With a view of preventing railway servants resorting to political inflnence to secure promotion in the service, a new regulation has been issued by the Railway Department, which provides that whenever any member !of Parliament approaches any head of department to urge the claims of employees for advancement, the employe© shall be subject to severe censure. Toothache is a severe test of a man's philosophy. A simple remedy ia to saturate a piece of cotton with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and place ifc in the cavity of the affected tooth. One application gives relief. Try it. J. Benning sell 3 ifc. The knotty question of the best shorthand system has again engaged £ho attention of the CJass Committee of the Christcburch Technical.Association Board of Managers. First of all it favoured Gregg's system ; then it was j asked by the managers to try to make I arrangements for teaching both Gregg's and Pitman's. Now it has declared in favour of the latter. The managers adopted the committee's recommenda- '< tion, and Pitman's will be taught. A conference of delegates from local bodies in tho Stratford, Patea, and Hawera Counties discussed the question of a railway to the Mountain, and passed a resolution asking Messrs Symes, Major and Jennings, M's.H.R., and tbe Hon. Messrs Scotland, Kelly, and Carncross, Ms.L.C, to meet in Hawera at an early date the delegates t f the bodies referred to. Failing this meeting, the delegates will wait on. the Ministers in Wellington. . Last week a circumstance of a peculiar and startling nature was reported in Hamilton, North Island. It appears that a Maori girl fell sick, and the services of a doctor were procured. Tho medical man duly prescribed for tho child, who, however, on Friday last apparently died. The parents thinking it useless, did not again call in tho doctor, but arranged for the attendance of a clergyman on Sunday to perform the obsequies. Fortunately the parson was delayed, and did not arrive till Monday morning, when the defunct infant greeted him with a smile. The Greatest Danger from colds and influenza is their tendency to result in pneumonia. If reasonable caro is used and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy taken, all danger will bo avoided It will cure a cold or. an attack of influenza in Jess time than any other treatment. It always cures and cures quickly. J. Benning sells it. We Lave to acknowledge receipt of the work *' New Zealand Wool Classing," by Mr R. B. Gibson, who holds I a.first-class certificate in wool classing from the South Australian School of Mines and Industries, Adelaide. Tho author's system is an adaptation of wool classing as practised in South Australia to the conditions obtaining in New Zealand. As this is the first handbook on the subject to appear in the Colony, the publication should supply a decided want. An enormous loss is sustained every year by flockowners through the careless classing o£ wool. The work also contains chapters on the management of a wool room, station wool-scouring, and the advantageous getting-up of station sheepskins. A .Cough is Not a Disease, but a symptom. It indicates that the lungs and bronchial tubes are inflamed. This inflammation often leads to pneumonia. The surest way to ward off pneumonia is to use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy on the first appearance of the cough or cold. It always cures and cures quickly, J. Benning sells it. Some timo ago (writes the Berlin correspondent of the London Express) a policeman named Teike, of Potsdam, was presented to the Kaiser as tho composer of several marches which were played by the local regimental band. Soon afterwards Teike's marciies were played at almost every garrison town, and now the musical policeman's fame has spread even across the Chan- : nel, for the English Army authorities have recently requested him to furnish them with the music of several marches. The Austrian army, too, is playing his music, and the famous Sousa seems likely to have a dangerous rival. ! Gone ! Vanished ! Absolutely Cured I The old man's cough is gone. For years he was a sufferer from asthma. Now he is quite cured. Book's balsam cured him. It has cured others; has cured thousands. Bock's Balsam cures Bronchitis ia all its stages. Old standing coughs, ordinary colds, cracked hands, etc. Price 1/6 at D. R. Nevison, local agent.—Advt. Miss Marie Corelli made her first appearance as a lecturer in London, ©n the subject of intended vandalism at Stratford on-Avon. The audience (says the Daily Mail) seemed to be more interested in Miss Marie Corelli's personality than in her topic. Soineof them expected to find a slim, girlish creature, with soulful eyes and raven hair. But Miss Corelli is very fair, of small stature, aud of quite matronly appearance. She was arrayed in a wonderful whiia satin low-necked robe, with a long train tit-pending from the shoulder. Her golden hair was so arranged that a single ringlet fell artlessly upon her neck. Her voice is musical, and rises and falls in gentle waves; but she spoke at times with tire. Ohambkulain's Couon Remfdy is intended especially for coughs cole1! croup, whooping cough and iniluenz ■'. It has become famous for its cure-, of these diseases over a large part of'tho civilised world. Tho most flattering testimonials have bean received, giving accounts of its good work • of tho aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured; of severe colds that have 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 itseof xt for whooping cough, h as shown that it robs that disease of all danscrous reS + Ui! * J fc is cs Peelally 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. Bennlng sells it,