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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XVIII, Issue 2332, 1 April 1908, Page 2

i A socialist visitor from America, Mr Kennedy, is not very favourably impressed with the average trade unionist in this Dominion. He considers that the tendency of the industrial legislation during the last decade has been to rob our workers of much of that sturdy assertiveness that marks the American worker, or even that of our nearer Com monwealth trades unionist. A useful note is given by a Bulletin con tributor, who writes :-I can tell what the blacks use to stop bleeding of a wound, and to cause its speedy healing. When trapping with dad, some years ago, I severed the big vein in my arm with a knife. The gore spurted all over the premises and dad. I felt pale. When father had wiped the blood out of his eye he pulled a handful of leaves from a.eucalyptus tree, chewed them into a pulp, clapped it on the cut and bandaged it on with a piece of his shirt. The bleeding stopped instantly. About six days later there was just a faint mark where the cut had been. Pa got the wrinkle from a black, who had*cut two toes off with an axe. The native treated the wound as described, and a week later the stumps had healed, I have often had occasion since to use the same remedy in tho bush, and it has never failed. Whether box, red gum, or mallee leaves are used, there is apparently no difference. I need scarcely mention that the treatment has the same effect on horses, cattle, and