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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2678, 5 January 1900, Page 3

Messrs T. and J. Thomson and the New Zealand Clothing Factory have fresh advertisements for the gentlemen to-day, A Masterten butcher hung up a sheep for a weight-guessing competition at Is a guess ; the correct guesser to have the carcase the shillings to go to the Transvaal relief fund, (result not yet reported.) At the wool sales this morning, Mr J. Mundell, auctioneer lor the Canterbury Farmers, offered the bale presented by Mr A. O. Thompson of Albury, the proceeds of which go to the Patriotic Fund. The price realised was 1H per lb, and will result in about £ls beihg handed over to the Fund. There was a slight patriotic demonstration by those present on the sale being made.

A medical journal has taken up the cudgels on behalf of the crocodile, and tries to prove that he is a true friend of man. His special line is sanitation, and he purifies rivers and lakes with promptness and despatch. The wool sale to-day brought a' large number of farmers and pastoralista into town. The sale was held in the Theatre Royal, where the auctioneers and buyers were conveniently accomodated on the stage, while the spectators occupied the stalls—and nearly filled them, There were over a score of buyers, seated on the stage. Prices, we understand, were about on a par with last saie or a trifle weaker, owing to a rise in the price of money at Home. The sale commenced at Banj so that buyers might get away by the express for the Dunedin sale. The sale progressed rapidly, and in a few hours something like £70,000 worth of property changed owners. Visitor : What are you crying abou my little man? Little Willie; all my brothers hez got a holiday, and I ain’t got none. Visitor: Why, that’s too bad! How is that? Little Willie (between sobs): I—l—dont go— to school yet.

The result of the rectorial election at Edinburgh was made known on Nov 4th the figures being—Lord Dufferin 943; Mr Asquith, 686; majority 257. During the progress and after the declaration of the poll extraordinary scenes were witnessed. One faction was pitched against the other in the quadrangle, and fighting lasted for about two hours. The lady students were involved in the imbroglio, a number of them having a hold on the Liberal standard. The Union ists planted their standard on the fountain and this position was assaulted with great fury by the, opposition. One student had his leg broken.

It is Perfectly Eeliable—“ We have sold many different cough remedies, but none has given better satisfaction than Chamberlain’s” says Mr Charles Holzhauer, Druggist, Newark, N. J. “It is perfectly safe and can be relied upon in all cases, of coughs, colds or hoarseness. Sold by Canterbury Farmer’s Association (Limited). A contemporary protesting against blame being carelessly attributed to war commanders saysln all important enterprises there must be a certain amount of risk. We overheard one of New Zealand’s most prominent business men explain why he had not engaged a certain traveller. "He tells me,” he said,“ that he never made a bad debt in his life. If it’s a lie 1 can’t trust him. If it’s the truth he must have done a mighty small business not to make a bad debt in 20 years on the road. I don’t want bad debts, but I want business, and must take the risk.” And the successful General must take risks. A little hoard of Eoman coins has been safely banked for 1600 years six inches under the turf on Sully Moors, in afield near Lavernock (South Wales). Some navvies, in the course of their work, came across a human skeleton. Three yards from it they unearthed a brass vase obout 4£ln high. The vase was full of gold, silver, and bronze coins. Each man secured what he could lay hold of, the vase was shattered to pieces, and it looked as if the treasure would be lost for ever to any public collection. By good luck, however, the greater number of the coins were afterwards gathered together and sold to Mr John Storrie, a local antiquary, who has giyen a full description of them in the Western Mail. There are three finger rings, four golden aureases, 278 silver coins, three bronze coins, and a few fragments. An aurcas of Diocletian, of about 3QO A.D., is the latest coin. The denarii cover the reigns of emperors from A,D. 211 to 296.

From 13 stone to a skeleton.—Mr A. A. Pennefather, ex-policeman says, I suffered for years from severe chronic Indigestion which reduced me from 13 stone weight to a mere skeleton—l suffered severely alter each meal from Flatulence, Heartburn, Palpitation, Pains in chest, Sleeplessness, Constipation, etc. I was treated by two doctors and tried every patent medicine without success. Loasby’s Wahoo gave me instant relief. I have regained both weight and strength and can honestly say lam quite well again. Loasby’s Wahoo always acts thus"—[Advt.j

Mr Foster Fraser in the Sketch writes, “ I would say to ladies who get hot and uncomfertable when riding, do mo?e cycling. Don’t, however, ride in tight corsets. Be careful to learn pedalling from the ankle, and not from the knee; it is the knee-and-hip lady cyclist that looks horrible. When the time arrives that you ride with as much ease as you can walk, then you may begin tightening your corsets gradually. If my young lady reader pracitses this plan these winter months, she will be able to cycle next summer with as slim a waist as the sweet French girls, and, cool and calm, she will be able to smile serenely at her puffing and perspiring sisters.’ Guy Fawkes Day is still observed in London, but has long since lost its significance. if you ask the boys or the men who carry round more or less grotesque models of human form in the hope of collecting pennies, why they do so they cannot give you an intelligent answer. The anniversary, indeed, has come to mean a day on whjch youngsters may let off fireworks on open spaces or in back gardens without knowing the why or wherefore. This year Guy Fawkes was displaced to a large extent by Kruger. One Guy Fawkes, or. rather Kruger showman got info trouble with the police and was charged with begging. He had a small cart drawn by a horse containing a rough tableau of John Bull, bearing across the chest the words, f ‘ Let ’em all come, ” President Kruger, a Red Cross nurse, and the “ prostrate” form of a soldier, apparently wounded. Prisoner was walking alongside of the “show” carrying a cigar box with a hole in the cover. He was rattling the coppers It contained and Inviting the passers-by to “ give a trifle.” When the police arrested him he had 7a in the box, all in coppers. The magistrate let him go, “Now, boys,” said the Sunday-school teacher, “ can any of you name the three great feasts of the Jews ?” Yes’m, I can,” replied one little fellow. “Yery well, Johnny. What arc they F” “Breakfast,, dinner and tea,” was the pncopscipusly logical reply.

Js It right For an Editor to Recommend Patent Medicines ? From Sylvan f alltv News, Brevard. N. 0. It may be a question whether the editor of a newspaper has the right to publicly recommend any of the various proprietary medicines which flood the market, yet as a preventive of suffering we feel it a duty to say a good word for Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. We have known and used this remedy in our family lor twenty years and have always found it reliable. In many cases a dose of this remedy would save hours of suffering while a physician is awaited We do not believe in depending implicity on anymedioine fora cure, but we do believe that if a bottle of Chamberlain’s Diarrhoea Remedy were kept on hand and administered at the inception of an attack much suffering might be avoided and in very many cases the

presence of a physician would not be required. At least this has been our experience during the past twenty years. For sale by Canterbury Farmers Association, (Limited). The sum of '.£10,828,276 was spent in England and Wales for the relief of the poor. In London it (amounted to 14s 6d per head of the population. bpent a Good Farm Doctoring—Mr A N. Noell of Asherville, Kansas, says he spent a good farm doctoring himself for chronic diarrhoea but got no relief, and was afraid that he must die. He chanced to get hold of a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and was permanently cured by it. For sale by Canterbury Farmers Association (Limited)