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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13488, 31 July 1907, Page 4

I Mrs. Jackson forwards a parcel of Books for Bushmen. j The lately elected commissioner of the tsgmont Road has taken advantage of |ihe recent spell of fine weather to clean lont the water tables and put new metal t gn the road. The road was in a very j's>ad state a few months ago, but is now in good order. ■J Entry forms for the T&ranaki Tennis Championship and Handicap meeting ijtave been issued. The tournament is Ho be on the New Plymouth Club's [courts on December 29th, 30th, and 31st, ijind January Ist, the days following the j-Kew Zealand. CliAnipionship meeting. 3phe usual five handicap and five championship events will be played. j The footwarmers in the trains are greatly appreciated by those, who have the opportunity cf using them. The trouble is that they are too few. Those who enter the carriages first get the footwarmers, others probably going, without. The men who are unfortunate enough to be "left in the cold" generally move on to the "smoker"; the ladies quietly say it "isn't fair." ; A man living at Walthamstow, near London, stole a bottle of lemonade. He (began to unscrew the stopper when the bottlo suddenly exploded and destroyed fcis eyesight. The unhappy thief, ha^ the impudence to take proceedings to obtain an award under the Workmen's Compensation Act, but the derken-, well County Couri; judge^promptly decided against lym. holding that the ac-, p/idezit was directly and solely due to fin act of tlioft. , ' A limited liability company has been j formed by some financial men in Feildihg (says an exchange) for tho purpose .pi" handling a 1ar.40 tract cf timber country i n \he centre of the North Island,. The eompeny has a capital of $'55 'G00, and inter;! to do things on a large seafo. A mill is to be erected on \ the country taken over, and it is probable the timber will be tracked to tho Thames and there shipped. It is reported that althorstfi the company is only a few weeks old £1 sharea are already telling at 21e. Cavalry horses formed a weak spot in tho British exhibits at tho great International Hor:<e Show at Olympia. A London paper expresses the opinion that: "Far'too much attention is paid tfa the hackney, and far $00 , little is paid, to the breeding of the ' military horse — the charger and the gun-horse. Ijfc is nothing short of a scandal that in this country, which has' surpassed tho whole Ayorld in hor-jeQ.ra.ft> 30 little encouragement is ofrerefl^to* farmers to ; raise cavalry monrts; and the scandal becomes a danger when we allow foreign j buyers to go through England and Ireland depleting our national stock by buying up the boat voting brood mares.'s • One of the chief aims' of the Hawera Chamber of Commerce for' some. time hac \ been to*' promote closer settlement. A sub-committee specially appointed has' gone into the matter and recommended that the Chamber should urge ..the Government to acquire; the following estates for conversion ibto small dairy farms: — Hirst's estate (1300 . acres), valued at £25,000; Bayly'* estate <1300, acres), . £20,900; Divers .estate . (1003 acres), £17,200; Beard's estate (3500 acres), £16,000. The. sub-committee's report was forwarded to the Land Purchase Commissioners. - From the tone, of a reply i pom- the Commissioners there" seems good prospect of the Government Jaking action. i(jl . _ ({/l> yi c _ For Bronchial* Coughs take Woods 1 Great Peppeixciin Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d— Advt

The ordinary cough medicine may soothe the throat, but it has no power to heal; recovery is not complete, and a second attack is more liable to follow. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is quite different, because it not only, soothes but also heals, so that the affected parts are restored to a healthy condition, and the danger of a future attack is removed. For sale by all dealers.