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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 104, 6 May 1907, Page 2

It is stated that the British Government are in treaty for, (hepurchase of a smokeless powder, which is also flaehless, invented by a Swiss chemist and Baccesrfally tested. To the military and n&val services the importance of such an* explosive will strongly appeal, as the use of an explosive that gives no visible flash means impossibility of" location of guns and ships during action. A train was wrecked a* Alkmaar,. on the DeJagoa Bay line, Transvaal. Dr Adam Jameson, ex Commissioner of Lands, and 11 others were killed and 11 were injured. The disaster, so fat as is known, was due to thesudden collapse of a culvert owing to* the action of beavy rains. No negligence is attributed to the authorities. The Oamaru Mail is informed on reliable authority that blight has been discovered in an unmistakeable form in several of the potato crops in that district. Though, happiiy, the experience is far from general,, thu discovery demonstrates that the dry beaeon has not banished the disease, as it was hoped would be the result. Gout is really a special form of rheumatism caus ©1 by excess uric acid in theblood. Whether your gout is acute oechronic, Kheumg will cure you. All stores,