IT HAPPENED IN A DRUG STORE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 10

IT HAPPENED IN A DRUG STORE.

'"One day last winter a lady came to my drug- store and asked for a brand of cough medicine that I did not have in stock," says Mr C. R. Grandin, the popular druggist of Ontario, N.Y. "She w?s disappointed, and 1 wanted to know what cough preparation I cculd recommend. I said to her that I could freely recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and that die could take a bottle of the remedy, and after gi\ ing it a fair trial, if ehe did not find it worth the money to bring back the bottle and I would refvnd the price paid. In the course of a day or two the lady came back in company with a frier d in need of a cough medicine, and advised her to buy a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I consider that a very good recommendation for the remedy." It is for sale by all dealers. Price, Is b"d and ss.

A terribly sudden death occurred on the night of March 19 at Waimato North. Tho Rev. Meinata Te Aara, Anglican clergyman, of Kaitaia, had gone to Waimate to attend a meeting of Maori clergymen, but immediately after tea died in a few minute?, apparently from heart disease. Deceased was the senior Maori clergyman of the Auckland diocese.

It is satisfactory (says Christchurch Truth) to be able to record "that the efforts of Mr Archey, the superintendent of the Burnham School, to get some of the boys to sea ha\e been very successful. Eight or ten have already gone, and, judging from the lettera received by Mr Archey from them, the experiment has been a great success. AU tha boys express themselves as being far more in/ favour of a sea life than of being on a farm. Now that the teaching of trades forms part of the system of the school, th^ complaint of the boys that there was no-* thing before them but the life of a farm) labourer has been done away with. It may be noted that in the case of boys going to/ sea the Government provide a very coflft* plete ou,Ui4,

The Napier Telegraph ftates that the following returned Hawke's Bay members of th'j New Zealand contingents ha\e received their discharge, under an order from the department issued recently: — Lieutenants J. [Ross and J. G. Hughes, Privates A. Petersen P. T. Emerson, T. C. L. Holroyd, A. T Wellwood, R. H. Trotter, and E. Krogh. •Of the above Lieutenant Hughes is now ion the staff, Lieutenant Ross is applying 2ov a captaincy in the seventh contingent, end Privates Emerson and Trotter have been appointed lieutenants and Frnai.e Petersen •ergeant in the seventh.

The secretary of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce (Mr H. Antill Adley) has received a communication from Messrs J. D. Spreckels and Bros. Company, agents for the Oceanic Steamship Company, stating that tho company has under consideration the resolution passed by the recent Conference of Chamber of Commerce — that unifoim lates of freight bo charged to all mam ports of New Zealand, and that the rates chaiged to New Zealand ports, inclusive of cost of tianshipmont and coastal fi eight, shall not oxceed the rate charged on like goods to Melbourne.