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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11515, 22 February 1909, Page 6

A Brisbane message states that Captain R. S. Taylor, surveyor to Lloyd's Re-, gister, and to the N.D.L. Company,- has completed-an investigation into the circumstances attending the. outbreak bf fire on the steamier Tubingen. He expressed the opinion - that the ofire ■ wtts eaused7by spontaneous-combustion.' In liis report he says:—"The fire originated m - the .'lowest four tiers of wool which were stowed m the hold.- The outbreak spread upwards until it reached jthe scouted wool on the ton, amongst wliich it burnt with greater intensity. There appears to have been -no breach of the regulations against, smoking m the hold of the vessel. TTie Tubingen lef tat fo'ui o'clock on the morning of January 30 for Antwerp," Bremen and Hamburg. Altogether 1022 bales of wool were damaged by fire and water, and this wool Syae left behind to be reconditioned^ and will be shipped m the Gottingeh. thi* month.* V Mr W. Wilson, Re vans street, Newtown, Wellington, N.Z,, writes: "Mj 4iver has given, me a lot of trouble. Not long ago f had, liver blotches over mjp face and tried all sorts. of tilings, .bui obtained jno relief. On the advice of a friend, I tried Chamberlain's Tablets, and! before I had taken two bottles the blotches, had disappeared from my face, and I hive n6t been troubled since.' For sale by E. D. Smith. !.. Here is news on the legal status (m America) of the mother-in-law. The New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph states that m the New Jersey Supremo Court, on December 31, Judge Stevenson decidedi that Mr John Kerry, must either pay his wife, alimony lor oust his. mother. If Mr Kerry decides that he loves' his mother more than hit wife, the Court will fix the amount oi the alimony, but; if, on the other hand, he ousts his mother, who is a vigorous, middle-aged, woman, and 1 ' an •., .excellent cook; Table; to ',cdmmand the ' Wiige of7"£6vper -^month and he^r'board, the-vvife mtist irfetUrn to her husband; 01 forfeit the alimotiy. In- elaborating his "decision, ' Judge Steveristfn "sold ?*- '^Home* b not'home' vdjere "there is a mother-in-law. .If a ; man-virißtalls ifisi Jsspther' in"' his hpme< when she is td}\e '.*to ' provide y for herself .elsewhere, it is not 1 such* a home ap.p wife- mttst acdept,' audoin4he -eyes of the-" law" sqclr - oondiict on the pairt ol a i*.usband'.js abandonment' of ■ his wife." A; certain young n^flh' of.' North, Shore, Took^dyertiaed pills by .the score,. ■ Till,the.Tight one. he hit . . „- . (Laxo-Tonic. to..wit); Now 'his'troublesTdigestive. are der. ■ I/AXO-TON^C PILLS, lOid and Is $d. -"■Obtainable, everywhere.7! ■ ■'• Set To-day. • T&e, popularity .of th« "Graphic* and tbe'high appreciation Iv which It-Is held all ovsr the-Dominion'is certainly well deserved. The-current fssue is again an excellent one, both as regards Illustra- 0 tions, news, and literature of, the most' varied'type. "Dog Toby's" article on "The Complete. Angler" •is specially worth; reading. -