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Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15345, 8 April 1920, Page 2

Effects of alcohol on the drinker, and ways of getting rid of them, were narrated by Dr. lUdwara mellanby before the Medical Society of London. Following are some of his points: —j-lf a man who had taken intoxicating liquor shot at a target, he would think he had done better than before, when he really had done worse. If a man got drunk and kept running about, he would get sober sooner than'by sleeping. By getting a man very drunk, and persuading him to drink two pints of meat extract, he foxxnd a very rapid recovery was made. A drink which would keer^a man drunk for the longest time, and at tlie same time eliminate the worst eifects of getting drunk, was a mixture of rum and milk.

An appreciative reference to the work of Major-General Sir A. W. Robin, Act-ing-Administrator at Samoa, appears in the "Samoan Times," which says:— "There is no more popular personage in Samoa than General Kobin, to whom the whole- community has become attached. . . There is no single institution in Samoa which lias not received a kindly and.interested visit from him, and the innumerable courtesies he has extenae'd to all with whom he has come in contact leaves the feeling that he has come, amongst us and conquered. ... • Sir Alfred Robin has proved himself the salver of many of our plaints, and the result to-day is that Samoa with all its wounds is a happier community than it has been for years. . . The-General's all too brief sojourn among us has been so'full of thoroughly useful work that every mem;ber of the community will be I sorry to see him depart." •