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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 37, 14 February 1900, Page 4

> Writing in the "Rbvjbw of Reviews" on the list New Zealand election, Miss Stella Henderson, of Christchurch, says -. - The influence of the Prohibition mov.ment upon the elections is anything bucclcaily evidenced. The most prominent Pi ohibitionist amongst the candidates has, it is trne, been detested. But another, who runs him hard ia the agitation, has been returned, and the actual representation of the par.y is larger. The movement has not gone ahead by leaps and bounds, hut it is making sore and steady progress. The total increase in the "iio-Licenso" vote, according to the*etorns as yet available, promises to be oier iiO.tOO, whilst the advocates of "continuance" have lost ground in almost every coi slituency, and over the whole have polled a much smaller vote than last lime. Prohibition is anything bnt dead yet, and in all probability tho new lease o power gi\cn tj the Premier and to the liquor trade will consolidate the pai ties wbich mako for reform in general politics and in licensing matters, -aod, in Ihe loog run, will prove anj thing but a genuine "set back.'' The l,ondoii correspondent of the Wellington " Post " writes :— New Zealand agriculturists who have long been troubled with tho' gorsc nuisance will read with interest the results of an experiment » hich has recently been made at IVoburn. .V piece of poor, sandy land, on a hillside, where all efforts to produce a satisfactory crop had failed, was at last drilled for barley and gorse in alternate rows. Once again the barley was a poor crop, but the gorse, with a little cultivation, grew and prospered, and when cut weighed eleven tons an acre. After crushing and bruising, this crop was used for feeding sheep. A butcher asked to pick out the best seven carcases from two pens of sheep, one fed on roots and the other on gorse, selected no fcivcr than six of the latter. From this it will be seen how important to agriculturists is the Woburn experiment. Never Ksws Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to Fail. Kov. J. M. Yingling, pastor of the Bed ford-street Methodist Church at Cumber land, Mo., says :— " It affords me muc pleasure to recommend Chamberlain Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Kemedy, have used i^ and know others ivho have done so. I have never known it to fail. It is a safe eurc_when taken in time." For sale by Kobert 'Snodgrass, Hardy-street Nelson.