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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10959, 30 April 1907, Page 1

Christchurch residents are a good deal exercised over the Exhibition organ incident. It is felt that if the Government never really contemplated presenting, the organ to the city they should have made their intention clear, instead of allowing a misapprehension to continue for more than six months. A Buenos Ayres correspondent of tors Lyttelton Times says the Argentine crops are proving a failure this year, or at least a comparative one. "Locusts m endless millions are sweeping into the country, and although the settlers and the Government have put up a determined fight the locusts must win. Although the Government has spent some hundreds of thousands of pounds on fighting the plague one might as well . try . to stop the sea water from entering the estuary at Sumner as to try ,to check the locu3ts once tlie plague is fairly started. From reports received from friends I gather that for over 1000 miles up the river the locusts are spreading destruction. They are sweeping m from Brazil, from the almost never-ending grassy, rolling downs of Goyazo and Matto Grosso, on to the Argentine and Uruguayan cultivations of maize, wheat, barley, and so forth; and when they come they make a clean sweep of everything. Were the country settled the ravages of the locusts would not bY so badly /-felt. Here are to be found blocks of land subdivided into lots of 100 to 150 acres each, the settlement per-" haps comprising 50,000 acres, but such a settlement most likely will be surro aided by one large estancia embracing from 100,000 to 500,000 acres. Thus small settlers may keep their land clear of the locust for some time, but the millions bred on the large estates once l hey commence to march sweep all before them. It is no unusual thing to road that at some place an average of, say, 175 tons of locusts have been destroyed each fortnight, and that, those fighting the pest have .been quite unable to save . the crops of the settlers. Doubtless the effect of the fight will m time be felt by the T locusts, and their numbers reduced, but when one knows that from an area of perhaps 1000 miles by 500 broad uncountable millions are still advancing one realises the almost hopelessness o' the task." "Some little time, ago," says Mr J. G. Boyle, Kelmscott, W. A., "I was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to take a serious form. Hearing so much about Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, I decided to give it a trial, and to my great satisfaction was completely cured by the time I had finished the first' bottle. For sale by E. D. Smith, chemist. One of the glass shades on the large electric chandelier suspended from the centre of the ceiling m the Wellington Opera House fell on Wednesday night during the secctad interval. There was a startling, crash as the falling glass struck the floor of the aisle, and people m the stalls cast their oyes roof-wards m natural trepidation. As luck would have it nobody was hurt, though only a minute before some of the stallholders had passed out over the spot where the shade fell. It was fortunate that the the displacement took place from that particular section of the chandelier, a6 people were sitting bare-headed Deneath the side portions of it. No one need now suffer the agonising pains of sciatica and acute rheumatism, aa quick relief may be had by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. This fact has been clearly demonstrated m many thousands of cases. This liniment relieves the pain and makes sleep and rest possible, which is alone worth many times its cost. For sale by E. D. Smith chemist. Mr J. Wilson Potter, one of the members of the Australian mail liners' syndicate, m the course of a letter to the English press last month, said that the principal difference between the proposed new steamers aiid those now running on behalf of other mail companies would be their greater capacity for cargo and lesser accommodation of. passengers. The new mailboats' annual accommodation for passengers would be equal to 8750 first and second-class, as compared with 13,000 provided for by the P. and 0. Company. This saving m space and extra size of steamers, Mr Potter points out, will provide for a larger cargo-carrying capacity, thereby securing a steady freignt revenue. THE KING OF PAIN. Those who have felt its keen, cutting pains know that Rheumatism is torture, and is rightly called the "Pain King." In the day-time Rheumatism is bad enough, but during the long, weary hours of night it is maddening. Immediate relief can be obtained from rheumatic pains by a thorough rubbing with Dr Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. Keep rubbing until you feel the magnetic glow penetrating to the very bones. A peaceful night will result. The most stubborn cases of rheumatism will yield to. this persistent treatment. Obtainable at A, W..J. Mann's, chemist, agent. - ;

"Thou shalt hot kill— war against war," is the heading of a circular issued by- the recently -formed Wellington branch of the International Arbitration and Peace Association (says the Poet). "W© have days dedicated to all sorts of things— some important and some not," it is stated. "Why not a day dedicated to Peace? The! idea of a peace Sunday throughout tho land ought to commend itself to everyone. The Sunday preceding or following the assembling of the delegates tt> the International Peace Conference at the Hague would be most appropriate." George Andrews, Rochester, Victoria, writes : "My occupation of a rabbit trapper obliges me to be out at night attending to the traps, and while so doing I contracted a severe cold. After trying other cough mixtures on the market, I was recommended to give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a trial. It gave me immediate relief, and three bottles completely cured me. I can with every confidence recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to anybody having a cough or cold." For sale by E. D. I Smithy chemist. __________________________-__■_______________-_-