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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 179, 31 July 1907, Page 3

_ Mr W. Marshall, Inspector, Vermin Destruction Act, Coleraine, Victoria says:—"We always keep Chamberlain s Cough Remedy in the house, and would not be without it. I consider it the best of all medicines for it gives instant relief, whether the patient is one of the children or myself. When I first tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy I was driving through the Casterton district, and had caught a severe cold. I bought a couple of bottles from Messrs H. and G. Harris, of Casterton, and kept a bottle in my pocket, taking a dose about every three hours, and before they wereused was Completely cured. I used to suffer from bronchitis, but by taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the first symptom always ward off an attack. I have given Chamberlain s Cough Remedy a sound and substantial trial, and have no hesitation in saying it is the best of all cough medicines, and can highly recommend it to any one with a family." For sale by J. Benning," Blenheim, and W. Syins, Picton. * Members of a party of Lancashire miners who have gone out to New Zealand have sent Home to England for their clogs (says St. James's Budget). Your genuine son of toil in Lancashire, and in some other parts of the north, is never happy ia other footwear than this extraordinary sample. Clogs are worn by women and children as well as by men. A baby in arms changes from woollen socks into clogs. To one not accustomed to their use, clogs are instruments of torture, but to the native Lancastrian they are the ideal of comfort, the very things in which to walk far and well. Put a Lancashire lass into dancing slippers on a ballroom floor, and she will be as helpless as a ship without a rudder, but in her clogs she is a paragon of grace. Economy may have a little to do with this choice of shoes, but that is only a minor factor. A colonist, aged sixty-nine, claims that he has a complaint against the parish authorities of his native place in Argyleshire. He unburdened himself to the Dunedin Benevolent Trustees on Wednesday (says the Otago Daily Times). It appears that, when asked on a previous occasion if he was married, he replied in the negative and sent to Argyleshire to prove his statement. The authorities there, however, wrote back to say that he was married, and enclosed a copy of the certificate. This, of course, complicated matters, put the old man in a false ??*%? n -f ancl delayed things generally. Un Wednesday afternoon, however 'it came to light that the parish authorities had made a mistake. The marriage certificate was not his, but that ot another of the same name, who is at present m Scotland. The colonist accordingly left the room with his veracity completely vindicated. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. is Sd ssd 2s 6d, 2,