NOTHING LIKE EVIDENCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 17

NOTHING LIKE EVIDENCE.

WHAT THE USEES BAY. The following extracts from letter* received will prove interesting to both present users of Hean’a, Essence end _ to those who may yet be “ doubting Thomases ” : “ Please post another bottle of your Hean’e Essence. Wo find it very good for colds, as well aa being most economical.—Mrs T. Morgans, Weber.” “ We find Hean’s Essence the best family medicine for coughs and colds. Please post two more bottles by return mail.—W. Peagrain, To Teko, Bay of Plenty.’’ “ I have been very pleased with Hean’s Essence as a family remedy for coughs and colds. It is excellent. —Mrs P. Keepin, Miller ton, via Westport.” “ I have tried Hean’s Gough Mixture Pkscnco, and found it fully as good as any other cough medicine. Please post two more bottles.—Mrs A. Williamson. Nevis, Otago.” Remember, Hean’s Essence contains no poison of any kind. There is no paregoric or laudanum or morphia or opium, or any poison. Tiro mixture you so easily make in. your own home is stif© for all and good f o '- all. It tastes good does good, never spoils, and saves at least j.os for your pocket. A 2s bottle makes a pint of finest family cough and cold remedy that money can buy. From all chemists and stores, or direct from Henn’s Pharmacy, Wanganui, on receipt of price, 2s. Wherever you buy be sure you get the genuine and original Hean’s Essence. No other will a<x H-E-A-N. U

those insidious plans. Whoever made himself an accomplice of the enemy must suffer the full rigour of the law. No enemy manoeuvres and no individual weakness would turn France from her unshakable determination to secure the restoration of Alsace and Lorraine, reparation for tho damage and ruin wrought, and a peace containing no germ of future wars, but in which effective guarantees would protect the socictv of nations against all aggression on the part of ono among them. These were the aims of France, and as long as these were unattained France would continue to fight. Co-ordination was necessary „.mong the Allies, who must act at if they were a single nation, a single army on a fingle front. All must equally contribute men, arms, and money. Only on this condition would their superior forces . become crushing. Such a policy would allow France, without exhausting herself, to meet her economic and military needs. THE NETHERLANDS. Queen Wilhelmina',6 Speech in opening the Statcs-gSneral says: "The prospects of the coming winter are unsatisfactory. The Netherlands continues ready to wavd off possible transgressions of neutrality; but i$ is becoming continually moro difficult to supply our people with the necessaries of life, raw material, and adequate tonnage for our export trade. We are lacking in collaboration among all classes. It is more than over essential to maintain ourselves amid the growing distress of the nations." GENERAL NEWiS. A court-martial at Marseilles has sentenced to death the Swiss singer Regni Diani for espionage. Holland has definitely rejected a German proposal to deliver coal against a loan. Tho Haytian Council of State passed a vote -affirming that a state of war with Germany exists. The Government of Costa Rica has severed relations with Germany, and has ordered all Germans to be interned. The Chinese Government has agreed to 6end a trial division comprising £'5,000 troops to France if the equipment and ships are available. A storm has released hundreds of mines in tho North Sea. Many have floated ashore at Jutland, and some have drifted into tho harbours among tho shipping. Tho Distinguished Conduct Modal has been awarded to Sergeant C. J. Devery and Private T. Yesty. of the Now Zealand Infantry. Fifteen New Zoalanders have received tho Military Medal. A Board of Control in London has boon established for the woollen and worsted industries, whereby the Army Council will determine the amount of raw wool to be retained for military use and the amount tc bo released for civilian trades.

The- Empire Resources Development; Com mittce. London, is urging" the co-ordination of all Iho cold stores in the United King•dom _ under Government- control, and the erection of new stores in suitable localities, contending 1 that thereby the cost of living might bo considerably reduced. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who has returned from the front, states that he was delighted to find the New Zenln.nders_ in good heart. He was specially struck with the medical and nursing arrangements.

The Daily Mail's Paris correspondent Buys the French military authorities have informed General Pershing that the Kaiser

has offered £ls and three weeks' leave to the first German making an American prisoner. The National Transporters' Federation is organising a national campaign on a , general post-war policy, wherein it will seek to secure the conversion of the existing war bonus into a permanent increase of wages-, the abolition of systematic overtime, reduction in hours, and the abolition of underpaid Asiatic labour in the mercantile marine. The British Seamen and Firemen's Union is organising a boycott of Germans for 12 months after the war, during which seamen will not handle any goods of German origin, will not enter a German port, and will not sail on a ship on which there is a German sailor. For every crime which Germans commit c;: sea or land henceforward the union will add a month to tho boycott. A German wireless message states that tho Kaiser has left Budapest lor Sofia. It is understood that the object of his visit is to smooth out difficulties between Jie. Central Powers and Bulgaria, arising from i the latter's refusal to give further military | aid. The general talk of annexation has ; alarmed the Bulgarians. | In answering a question in Parliament, Sir R. L. Borden said he understood that no steps had yet been taken in Australia to secure the return from the front for a holi- | day of the men composing the first 50,000 j despatched to the war. No such action was ! contemplated, in reference to the Canadian forces. There is much comment in Norway on tho activity of German financiers in endeavouring to persuade Norwegian ship-owners to I charter vessels to Germany after the war. ; in return for German export concessions. Tho efforts are noteworthy in view of Germany's continued embargo on exports which arc essential for Norwegian industry, and also her unabated submarinings. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. The Australian war casualties total 107,270, of whom 31,535 are dead. In tho > Federal House of Representatives, Sir John Forest . gave notice iof a Bill to increase the number |of Ministers with portfolios to nine, I so as to enable a Minister of Repatriation j to bo appointed. A Bill was introduced to | provido for the appointment of a Minister of Repatriation and for increasing the mem- | borship of the Cabinet from eight to nine. ; Senator Millen will fill tho new portfolio. j The Federal House of Representatives has j agreed to a super-tax of 25 per cent, on the i income tax.

Tho Government's amended proposals in regard to the repatriation tax provide that single men and widowers over 21 years of age without children shall pay £5 yearly, or 5 per cent, on their income, whichever is the greater.- They exempt only men who have enlisted, those where a majority of brothers are serving, and old-age pensioners.

The retail price of methylated spirit in New South Wales has been fixed at 4£d per reputed pint and 6d measured flat rate. The price of cheeso has been fixed at Hid per lb, and that of maize at 4s 6d per bushel wholesale.

The Government Statistician states thab the price of meat in Sydney has increased by over 82 per cent., and other food and groceries by 22£ per cent, as compared with August, 1914.