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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 96, 25 April 1907, Page 7

By a remarkable coincidence, whilst the Southport Chamber of Commerce was deploring the decrease in the birth-rate of that town, a working cleaner and dyer of that town was canvassing tlie district in search, of work with the following remarkable circular, which he had issued in sheer desperation, being in straightened circumstances:—Ladies and Gentlemen, —Will you kindly find me a little work? I will do it well and cheaply. I may say I need support, as my wife (has presented me with five children in thirteen months—triplets and twins.. iln France the Government supports those who are thus afflicted. 1 shall be very glad if you will think of nic the next time you want any dyeing or cleaning done.—l am, yours respectfully, Geo. Benson. <

What is conceived to be an alarming state of matters has disclosed itself in - the West Coast Sounds, says the Southland Times. Ferrets during the past year have been making rapid progress throughout the eastern parts of the district, and are known to have got as far in their maraudings as Northport. Those acquainted with the geography of the place will perceive that they are now within measurable distance of Resolution Island— the native birds' sanctuary. To get there they must have bridged over these " running waters," and there is nothing to hinder them continuing the " bridging process" right on to Dusky Sound. This should be seen to at once, otherwise we may waken up to find that our bird preservation enterprise has met with ■" short shift."

" Some little time ago," says Mr J. G. Boyle, Kelmscott, W.A., "I was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to take a serious form. Hearing so much about Chamberlain's Cough Remedy I decided to give it a trial, and to my great satisfaction was completely cured by the time I had finished the first bottle." For sale by J. Benning. , *

An inquest was held last week at Beaufort (Victoria), touching the deathof Andrew Lambert McCracken, aged 21, "who had died suddenly in a paddock where he had been woodcutting. He was boiling a billy' for dinner, and after smoking a cigarette (not having eaten or drunk any thing) he fell over on his leftside and expired. His father told the actingcoroner that his son was an inveterate cigarette smoker, having smoked six packets of cigarettes and a 4oz tin of cut tobacco between Saturday and Monday last. Young McCracken was apparently well on Sunday, when he last saw him alive, but had had a cold for two months. He had never consulted a doctor in his life. Dr A. G. Jackson, who made the post-mortem, said that there were evidences that deceased was suffering from an acute attack of pleurisy. The heart was enormously enlarged, weighing 240z, the usual weight being from lOoz to 12oz. The other organs of the body were healthy. In his opinion the cause of death was heart paralysis, probably the result of some exertion affecting the greatly enlarged heart. The pleuritic condition would probably have contributed to the sudden death. To anyone with heart trouble smoking was injurious. It was a kind of heartthat did not show any symptoms, deceased being in just- that condition that any exertion was risky to him, and death would have occurred sooner or later.