NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13081, 22 January 1906, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Frisco mail due.

Suez mail arrived. Talune left for the South. Navua for Fiji Wednesday. Mokoia- arrived from Sydney. Manuka for Sydney this evening. Taviuni for the Eastern Pacific to-mor-row.

Arrivals in West Australia last year orceeded tha .departures by 7527. and the births were 4800 more than the deaths.

The Onehunga Brass Rand, under Bandmaster Eugene Hulse, rendered a pleasing programme in Queen-street, Onehunga, on Saturday evening.

The Hut-ton memorial fund has reached over £125 in Christchurch alone. Subscriptions are also being received in other centres of the colonv.

While fishing in Seven Creek, New South Wales, the limb of a tree fell on Mrs. Oupit, breaking both Iter 'egs, and seriously injuring her spine.

A Dane bar, written to the Premier of Victoria, urging the settlement on the land of Scandinavians, and offering to send as many' shiploads to Australia as required.

The latest estimates of the State Statistician confirm the view that Victoria is entitled to only 22 member." in the House of Representatives, and New South Wales to 27.

A waggon loaded with wheat passed over the back* of a four-year-old child in Victoria the other day. By some miracle, the infant was neither killed nor seriously injured.

The contract system in the construction of railways in Queensland lias been practically abolished, and for some years all such works 'nave liecn carried out by day labour.

The Christchureh Press states that the now railway'passes for members of Parliament will be in the form of a kiwi, in gold. The old "tiki" passes will he called ii!. and the new design will be permanent.

. Tho* artesian bore at Bo;.mi, between Moree, New South Wales, and the Queensland border, has been successfully completed. It is over three-quarters of a milo deep, and the estimated flow is 900,000 gallons per day.

•The Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company only freezing meat on account of clients, and not iteslf engaged in buying, a somewhat misleading interpretation might he placed on a paragraph in an interview with the general secretory of the company appearing on Wednesday fast. It was stated the company was giving 12s per head for lambs, and offered 18s 6d per 1001b for beef. The paragraph should have read) that the company had buyers at those prices. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Suppose, for example, you need a Cough Medicine for yourself or some in cm her of your family. You go into a store and the clerk hands out several kinds to select from. He may urge one on to you or lie may bo neutral. Which one do you select'.' Does not common sense tell you to take the one vou know i-> free from all narcotic-? That one i- Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. You have not only the assurance of the Chamberlain Medicine Co. that it is free from narcotic.!, but also know that it ; s the only Cough Medicine sold in all of Australia that has " hern officially declared free. Wo condemn no honest medicine, but when the safety of Tour life or that of your child is at .-take, take no chances. Ask your physician and he will tell you that the dangers of opium are worse tjiatt a tapusand coughs.