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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15053, 28 January 1911, Page 8

Baxter's Lung Preserver is the remedy for coughs and colds which goes to the root of the trouble, and dispels the cold quickly. Price Is lOd the large-sized bottle.—Advfc. Writinsr from German Africa, a tourist says: —"Wo found here in tho dense fores:, among people who know nothing of modern ecdontifio discoveries, a good and practio-.l wireless telephone. The natives liove for purposes of ceremony, peaceful and warlike, drums of various dimensions made of wood, ami these, when beaten, emit sounds of about an octave in range. Asido from the ceremonies tiic drums are used also as moans of communication. Wo had a proof of it one day. Our caravan was ready to start when our head _sen-ant stopped suddenly in this work, listened intently, and then gave unmistakablo signs of pleasure. Wo learned later that the indistinct sounds conveyed to him tho news that a boy had been ix>rn to his brother in a neighbouring village." — Salmon-fishing is a sport which jcay bo engaged in 011 tho French rivers at little cost. But the sport, is not very alluring. Tho reason of this, it appears, 1 is that thero is an army of 75,000 men who .havo quartered themselves in tho neighbourhood of tho estuaries of tho rivers Mid livo by poaching, their principal attention being directed to the netting of salmon fr.v on their way to tho soa. According to tho Under-Secretary of Marino, Chore are villages in Brittany wlhero the peasants actually food their pigs with tho immature fish. There is a law, it is true, protecting salmon fry. but Jiithorto it has bcon a dead letter. The Government now. liowover, have mado up their minds to enforce it. But -with 75,000 poachers to dis|x>so of they will, as a contemporary remarks, havo a tough task. A holp in bladder and other ailments— WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS.