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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 6505, 14 March 1896, Page 3

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The Lytfcelton Times has received a legal opinion that the conviction of Dr de Renzi for assault will not entail his re saoval from the medical register. It is quite true that " The Medical Registration Act 1869" provides that any practitioner convicted of a misdemeanour shall be struck off the register, but since that measure was placed on the Statute Book the meaning of the word " misdemeanour" has been extended by the Criminal Code Act to embrace all offences. It is a ruling interpretation that a penal act cannot be extended to embrace offences subsequently created unless provision is made for bringing them within its operation. Tiiis means, in plain language, that if a common assault was not a misdemeanour contemplated by the Medical Registration Act 27 years ago, it cannot be made a misdemeanour now. If it could, the position of the medical practitioner would be a very precarious one. If he even placed his hands upon the shoulders of another person without consent he would be guilty of a technical assault and a misde < meanour entailing the removal of his name from the register. As a rule, scientific men, not engrossed to much with the cares of this life, reach to a good age. Of nineteen Fellows of the Royal Society and some foreign members who died last year the average age was seventy-six and a half years. Two had attained the patriarchal span of ninety-seven and ninety-eight years respectively. Lawyers and statesmen also habitually reach a green old age, so that evidently intellectual effort does not tend to shorten life. The highest tower in the world is the Eiffel, 1000 ft; the next, the Washington Monument, 566 ft.

The influence of forests in protecting the water supply is well illustrated in the case of Greece. In ancient days she possessed 7,500,000 acres of forest. Today she has hardly 2,000,000 acres, and the scarcity of water and other injurious climate effects are traceable to the destruction of the trees. I Truscott, of Condurrow, and George Ray, of Camborne, two miners, were working a drill at Dolcoath mines recently, when the drill struck some unexploded dynamite. An explosion followed, and both men were shockingly injured. While at Peekskill, NY., Mr J. A Scriven, a prominent manufacturer of New York City, purchased a bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy. Such good results were obtained from its use that he sent back to the druggist from whom he haa obtained it for two more bottles of the same remedy. When you have a cough or cold give this preparation a trial and, like Mr Scriven, you will want it again when in need of such a medicine. It is a remedy of great worth and merit 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by E. G- Lank.