The Pocket Medical" Guide, a, small pamphlet issued by the Blue Flag Medicine Co. of Wanganui and Wellington, is a handy little text- book giving useful instructions, re. all the comirfon ailments. It gives tlie symptoms and the readiest yreventat^ves or 84 odd maladies that flesh is heir to, and as the booklet pan be had for the asking, it is no weight for any man's bqok-shelf to carry. If one hasn't been delivered at your house call at the Blue Flag Co., Cuba-street, and get one: ; W : Accompanied '.■'-by "Glencoe,";thc writer , paid a visit to, Porirua on Tuesday mormng, and was much interested dn the* training operations oh the beach. After the work I despatohed my confrere tp jiave a look through the boxes while t paid a vis-' it to the vegetable gar den. /■When we met at the station "Glencoe" .was full, of news and Iv/as the possessor, of sonic catobfagc, cauliflowei-'j .onions, new potatoes and a lamb.' Now, "Glencoe," who, by tlie way, is not a family mian, is wpndering at lots of things, and . regrets he didn't take a racehorse. He might have, had Jos Prosscr hot 'blecn looMng. ' Says a Wanganui paper :—"onc of the meanest . tricks . that has come under our notice for sonic time past was perpptrated 'on Thursday night last m the pigeon loft of tw.o youthful local fanciers. A quartette of pigeons frpm this loft won a prize at the recent ' show and was naturally much' prized by tho' owners. Their feelings .can be imagined when they discovefed on Friday morning that the loft' had. beem visited during the night and theaiecks of the four prize birds ,had been wrung. The loss is all the more severe m that the birds cannot, 'be replaced In the colony. The matter has been placed m the hands cf the BQlice.-
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NZ Truth, Issue 130, 14 December 1907, Page 6
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308Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 NZ Truth, Issue 130, 14 December 1907, Page 6
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