TRIED AND TRUE. MRS DODD AND DIGESTION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 17 April 1901, Page 51

TRIED AND TRUE. MRS DODD AND DIGESTION.

A MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALANDERS HOW BILE BEANS CURE. It is almost safe to say thai, fifty out of every hundred people in Australasia suffer from indigestion. In America the ailment is even more common ; in fact, it is quito an exception to find a man. or woman in. New York whose digestive organs are perfect. Indigestion is brought about by an inability cf the stomach to digest food given to it. The result is that the patient suffers great pain and inconvenience. It becomes difficult to breathe, the breath become* tainted, pains occur in the stomach, ambition ceases, and,, generally speaking, life becomes a burden. If the btomacii, or, more properly speaking, the liver, is kept m proper order, indigestion will disappear. Bile Beans for Biliousness ha\e rarely been, krown to fail in aiding the stomach and liver to perform their duty, and hence they prevent indigestion, constipation, biliousness, and a host of ailments that owe their origin to a disordered liver. A% further evidence of their efficiency we publish tbe following letter from Mri W. Dodd, of Cro=s street, Auc kiand , N. Z . , which reads : — " Having had occasion to use Bile Beans for Biliousness, I have much pleasure m adding my testimony to their value as a remedy for indigestion, biliousness, and ncrvcvis headache. It is my opinion that they surpass all other remedies. I have no hesitation in recommending them to persons suffering from a d.^ordered liver. They are mild and pleasant to take, acting naturally, and giving sprcdy relief." Such is the testimony of a woman— for the benefit of women — to the e\cellence of Bile Bean-, fcr Biliousness, which are undoubtedly the world's greatest specific for indigestion, liver complaint, anse-ma, rheumatism, impv.ro blood (which, at this period, reveals itself in the form of spring ia=br<? and skin eruptions generally), kidney diseaFe, palpitation, pies. and constipation. They are purely a vegetable preparation, and may b^- administered in all cases without fear. Obtainable from all chemist-, and =t^iekreper-, or dneet from the Bile. Bcvn Mormfaituring Co.. 39 Pitt street, Svdnpy: New Zealand agents., Ke'^pthome, Prosser, and C > — .» dv I

Ti>e tot. 1 quantity of gold won m Tasn.aniT, for Mpicli was 44720z. from 4023 ton-i of quartz, the value being £17.324. Decided pi ogress has been iraae viith the hop-growing industry in the Tua Marina district (says the Marlborough Daily Time?). The picking opeiations at Messrs Hastilow Bro?.' gaidens have come to an end, and the results are mest cncotuaqiiig, the sea=on's retuiiiS conclusively proving that the district i= highly suitable for the cultivation of hops. Tho pbovo mentioned gentlemen bad a fine esop, covering four and a hilf acre:-. It was pericctiy free from blight, and the yield wr.a consider? bly over the average. The peculiar/ feitilitv of the soil is attributed to the periodical -floods, which, while not m any, way harmful to the indusViy, enrich tht> ground. The c uccc=s of the work done by, the llcb-'is Hastilovv, wl-o established the. industry in Tva Manna only tv. o or thieet ycai j ago, has encouraged them to extend^ their opeiations, and other tbree aere^j have b"Mi cultivated. Tho kiln standing on their property is fittfd up m the latest ttyle, and their process of preparing the hops for Iho market is a thorough oa&

ANGLING.

By Jock Scott. T. be » perfect flihtnaan yon require more excellencies than H«uiu»llj to be found m luoh a small (pace as Is allotted (o a lu'i carcui.— Firxbk GruioDß. Bstderi are iurited to contribute items of looal fiihlng newi l*r iusrtioa in tkU column. For miertioD in the ensuing inut «kty abould reach Dnnedln by Monday night's mail. BISK NOTES. Lumsden.— "Angler" writes that he has Hot much to relate. The Oreti is low and clear. He had never seen it so low. A emart showtr on the morning of the 15th inst. would help to improve it. Messrs M'Math and Stevenson had a few hours on • the Waikaia on the 12th inst., and landed 16 trout with the fly. Above the township the stream was in ideal order. Mr M'Math aiso tried the Oreti, and secured two fish. Fishing in Canterbury.— The Christchurcb Press of the 11th inst. says : —Fishing during the Easter holidays in the Opihi was, on the whole, rather poor, though the river •was in good condition. Most of the fish landed were secured on the fly, the minnow proving of little use. Among the largest baskets were those secured by Mr F. Taster, •who grassed 57 fish, the largest weighing silb ; Mr A. Dorm, 33 fish, the largest weighing 841b; J. Culhnan, 26 fish, largest 51b; E Mcc, 19 fish, largest 9£lb; P. Sealey, a if air basket, largest 101b ; and C. Balfour, 13 £eh, the largest weighing 61b. Mr Fieher and Mr H. C. Southland returned to Christchurch last evening from a holiday trip to 'the unparalleled angling waters of the too little known Opihi River, in the Temuka district. They brought with them heavy baskets of beautiful trout, scaling from 101b «ip to 161b each, caught on the Ay. Their ipilot was Mr Charles Nicholas, a son of Mr E. Nicholas, Ashburton's oldest veterinary Burgeon and farmer. Besides Mr Fisher and Mr Southland, a number of others were •whipping the stream, and Mr Beaumont grasped a record from his fly-baited line ;with a splendid trout sealing 201b 4oz. The ifish is now in the Fairfield freezing chambers, and doubtless intended as a trophy for the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and /York. Another angler landed two fish .■weighing 9£ll> each, and so game were they fthal he had to play with each one for fully ihalf an hour. Fourteen expensive minnows .•were lost by various anglers during the holiday, but an intelligent Maori subsequently '■dived into deep water and recovered twelve. "Mr A. Orion, one of the erstwhile Mount •Peel explorers for opals, has also been doing a bit of angling, atid came back from the tmouth of the Rangitata River with 20 big epeckled beauties, writes our Ashburton correspondent, the heaviest weighing 20lb. Mr ■(Nicholas, who knows every inch of the Opihi River, says that stream is simply teeming with fish. Asbburton Acclimatisation Society. — Tho fifteenth annual meeting of the Ashburton 'Acclimatisation Society took place on Wednesday evening. Mr P. H. Cox presided, and there was a large attendance of mem.tiers. The annual report showed that the leceipts- for the past year amounted to £98 12s 6d, whil3t the expenditure was £104- 11s sd, leaving a debit balance of £6 Is lid. The total assets of the society amounted to '£221 10s lOd, with no liabilities. The follow dng officers were elected for the ensuing term: — President, Mr G. A. M. Buckley: vice-presidents, Messrs J. Studholme, jun., W. J. Steward, and J. M'Lachlan ; treasurer, Mr P. H. Cox ; secretary, Mr A. H. Shury ; auditor, Mr J. Friedlander ; committee — Messrs Field, Cambridge. Walker, Pilbrow, and De Beer. The usual honorarium of £5 5s was granted to the secretary, and a resolution was unanimously adopted eulogising Mr Shury for the interest he had taken m the work of the gociety. The kitchen, or cook house, erected at the mouth of the Ashburton by the local Acclimatisation Society having proved a great success, it is proposed to erect two other 3 for the benefit of anglers, one at the Bangitata and the other at the Rakaia. — Lyttelton Times, April 12. A Big Turtle. — Mr John Hagan, of Chippendale, while fishing off the rooks at Watf>on'6 Bay, New South Wales, made an extraordinary catch. He suddenly felt a hard 'fmll, and, thinking that he had hooked a large fish, hauled up ; but, much to his surAirise, found that he had caught a sea turtle, it was afterwards weighed, and turned the ecale at 301b. Mr Hagan was using a fine .ulk waterproof line. A Record Catch. — Speaking of heavy work, writes an Inverness angler, I recently had a curious experienW" of it in tins neighbourhood. I war looking for a good fishing spot, and came across one where I thought I might do well. I baited my hook, and in about a minute had a bite. I hauled in, and saw I'd caught a fine fith — three-pounder, & should think. I unhooked it, and threw at over my shoulder out of the way. Soon J had another. I thought I'd make a fine .discovery, and worked away like mad, never Ikaving to wait more than half a nunute for a fish. I'd throw 'em over my shoulder, Un with the hook, out with another fish ; and so I went on for about two hours. At last £ looked round to take stock of my catch, it was amazed to see not a single fi s h, bar the ■ one in my hand. But what I did 6ee was Ihe river about two yards behind me. It ibook a sharp turn thereabouts, and came Wck quite close to where I was sitting. Then tf twigged what had happened. When I "threw the fish over my shoulder he pitched »Je the stream, swam down round the corner, tiaw my bait, ate it, was caught, and went through the whole performance again, enjoyfog the joke. The Sardine. — " Halcyon," in a recent Ijmmber of the Field, "says:— It is pretty >Jrell known that a great proportion of the -.terdines sold nowadaye do not hail from the Wediterranean, but are small pilchards, Smoked and presarved in oil. I ivaa talking so a gentleman during the past week re-

specting the Cornish pilchard fisheries. He was a native of Cornwall, and therefore knew what he was talking about. He said that a gentleman had recently conceived the idea of (making pilohards more popular in London aad other large centres, and there eeems every prospect of his experiment proving very successful. Longevity of Anglers. — Writing on this subject "Halcyon" gays the longevity of those who angle is proverbial. Another instance, he says, came under my notice recently. Many of my readers will remember the great match for the championship between Joe Woodard, of Lea fame, and Wm. Bailey, of Nottingham. The former died recently at the age of 72. He went roach fishing to Broxbourne, a favourite haunt of his on the Stour, the day previous to hie death, showing that the old veteran was hale and hearty to the last. The match took place in 1872, tho chief stipulations being that only roacn were to count, that the winner of two days' fishing out of three should be styled champion roach fisher of England, that one day's fishing should be on the Trent, one on the Lea, and the other on the Stour, and that Woodard should fish in the Lea style, and Bailey in the long swimming or Nottingham method. By the irony of fate Bailey was declared the winner on the Lea, and Woodard proved victorious on the Trent. Then came tho final heat on the Stour, but Woodard made no- mistake on that -occasion, killing 212 roach, weighing 301b, while Bailey's catch was only 101, weighing lO^Ud. Woodard was interred at Edmonton Cemetery in the presence of a large gathering of anglers, for in his long career he had made a host of friends, who deeply mourned his loss. Some splendid fishing sport has been obtained from the Oreti River, about Centre Bush, during the last week or two, go a Winton angler informs the Record. Five and six-pounders have been landed in large numbers, and in the pink of condition. Good fishing appears to have been plentiful in the rivers in the Wyndham district all the season, but it is now about played out (says the Fortrose correspondent of the Farmer. Nevertheless Mr J. R. Kidd took six good fish last week from the Titiroa — one ?lb, one 3£lb, three 31b, one 2^lb ; total, 19ib. Mr J. H. Smith has recently taken a few nice trout out of the Tokonui. Mr Oliver Ackers's bag for the seasorl totals 300, all taken out of the Mataura, and grassed in spare hours, as sawmillers can't knock off in the daytime to fish. The fishing competition, all in, namely, fly and minnow, in connection with the Anglers' Club, started on Thursday evening and finished on Friday evening (says the Timaru Herald). The baskets weighed were : Mr F. Tasker, 21 fish weighing 20ilb, heaviest fish 31b ; Mr J Cullmann, 16 fish weighing 1721b, heaviest fish BJlb. All were taken with the fly m the Lower Opihi, and were in excellent condition. It was reported that good takes had been got in the Pareora, but the fishers from there had not put in an appearance at the fixed time for weighing in. The concluding round of the Temuka Anglers' Club's fly-fishing competition was fished on Wednesday last (*ays the Timaru Herald). Three baskets only were weighed in as follows: — O. Horsman, 46 fish, 33 11-I61b; N. C. Nicholas, 14 fish, 81b; J. H. Anderson. 5 fish, 7 15-161b. Mr Horsman had a good lead previously, and won comfortably. He selects a rod as his Drize This was presented per favour of Sir William Blunden, the president. Mr N. C. Nicholas takes an aneroid barometer, subscribed for by members.