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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 190, 16 June 1903, Page 5

■JUST -LANDED. Another Shipment-.of the Celebrated ' OLIVER PLOUGHS, No. SB. Circular Coulter. THE SAME LOW PRICE, £4 Ss ; WITH EXTRAS. A. MANOY, HIGH STREET, MOTUEKA.

Last Thursday the fishing tender s.s Pania landed at Wellington a record catch of 18,000 mackerel, 600 soles and 300 ling. The relief ship Morning is to stay at Lyttelton until December next. If the Discovery does not arrive from the Antarctic regions before then, the Morning will start on her second relief expedition in the first week of that month.

Friday’s N.Z. Times says :—There is a shortage of chaff in Wellington this week, and prices are consequently on the up-grade. The present quotation for "bright samples is .£4 2s 6d. The belief is that the coming week will see values at A 4 10s, with prospect of further rise if wet weather continues for any long period. Manila papers give an account of the raising from the bay of the Reina Cristina, Admiral Montojo’s flagship, which was sunk by Admiral Dewey in the Spanish American war. Eighty skeletons were found on board. The raising of the big 3500 tons cruiser was no easy job, especially as the patching of the fourteen small gunshot holes beneath the water- line required attention, to say nothing of the 18 inch inject! n pipe, the valve of which was removed before those not killed aboard the vessel left the ship. This caused the immediate sinking of the vessel, after an exploded shell had set fire to the woodwork.

Gould some of the philanthropists in England only see how some of those in receipt of old age pensions in this colony whose total income is not supposed to exceed £lB a year, drive about in comfortable conveyances they would be somewhat mystified as to how the oracle is worked.— East Coast Guardian.

M. Jacques Inaudi, the lightning calculator, who recently appeared in the colony, challenged a Melbourne audi ence* lately to set him mathematical problems, when a heavy swell, who was probably something in the Treasury, called out, " £ If a man earns threepence a day for eighteen months ■ ” Before he could complete his pxizzle, however, a ribald listener from the gods yelled out, “ Oh ! you’re a bloomin’ rat catcher, all right, and want to know how long before you’ll be a millionaire on your present screw !” For Bronchial Oough, take Hoods Great Peppermint Care,, Is 6d and 2s 6d everywhere. For Children s Sacking Cough at night take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure , Is 6d and 2s 6d.