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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12929, 27 July 1905, Page 3

The pilotage returns of the Victorian Marine Board, which, are regarded as the 'barometer of the shipping trade, show that the receipts for the month of June amounted to £2497, as contrasted with £2415 in the same month of the previous year. A decrease is shown in the returns for the last quarter compared with those of the same period in 1904, the figures being £8150 and £8681 respectively. The gross receipts from pilot fees for June amounted to £2592 6s Bd, and the expenditure was £2593 6s Bd. Of the latter sum £2144 went to sea pilots, and £203 to harbour pilots. The expenses of the sea pilots amounted to £582, and those of the harbour pilots to £16. At Rutherglen (Vic.) recently two men named William and Albert Hilet were drowned while trying to cross >' flooded creek. The men had scarcely got into it when they were washed off their horses, and swept down the stream.' The northern suburbs of Invercargill are gaining unenviable notoriety in regard to acts of lawlessness (says the Southland Times). On Monday evening last it was reported that an elderly man had been waylaid at Gladstone and his pockets forcibly " gone through." Obstinate coughs promptly cured by using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For hacking cough, use Chamberlain's Cough 'Remedy./ Immediate relief,