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Temuka Leader, Issue 10282, 10 January 1922, Page 1

places in Mecca and elsewhere. 1 Eighty-four years ago a block of land in Melbourne, with a frontage of 66 feet to Collins street and stretching back to Little Collins street was bought from the Crown fur £lB and an adjoining block fronting Elizabeth C street for £54. Within 60 years they ■ were covered with buildings at a cost of £350,000, and to-day the rentals of the various buildings total over £24,000 a year. Sir Ernest damsel, who left £6,000,000 1 in his will, expressed the wish that Brook House, Park Lane, and its contents should never be sold by any person entitled thereto under his will, and 2 he requested each successive holder to s observe this wish. Should the trusts ” under the will fail, Brook House and g its contents are to be offered as a gift, i, to the then reigning Sovereign of Eng s, laud, and, if tin* gift be not accepted, * then it is to be given to King Edward’s y Hospital Fund fur London. a 3 , The first shipment of Australian j’ beef for Russian relief has been laudsi ed and totals 4,500,0001b5. t A despicable theft, which assumes d an even greater degree of absolute ,o meanness by reason of the particular s. Institution and the circunuljinces in which it was perpetrated, was made on Christmas Eve at the Wh&ngarel hospital (says the “Northern Advocate’’). The thief entered the kitchen through a window, and stoic five fowls ready dressed for cooking. The _ poultry was meant for the Christmas dinner of invalid patients and nursing staff. An amusing experience is related by a, New Zealander who recently E returned from a trip on a .Japanese V- vessel when one day the Mikado’s to birthday came round. The ship T was bellagged and otherwise decorw ated, a grand parade of the crow 1- was held, and all men who could he spared from duty wore given time S, off. This privilege extended to the | bathroom stewards, and in order j th.lt passengers might know that . ihoy must carry on their ablutions S. unaided, the following quaint example of English was posted in the bathrooms: —“In honour of the Emperor’s birthday no baths to-day.”

cimo.vic constipation. You frequently hear of eases of chronic constipation cases (hat; have existed for years. In nine cases out of ton the trouble has become chronic through improper treat merit. The patient has formed the habit of taking strong purgatives and Iras so weakened the trowels that they will not act naturally. Chamherlain’s Tablets relieve constipation and relievo it permanently, because, instead of doing the word; of (ho bowels for them Chamberlain’s Tablets simply stimulare them to perform I heir own functions. Sold by alt Chemists and Storekeepers Tcinui.u and Geraldine.

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