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West Coast Times, Issue 8064, 30 January 1891, Page 2

It must be a pleasant thing to be a director of the Wellington Woollen Company. At a private meeting of shareholders it wan resolved to recommend that the directors fees be raised to £50 each, that the chairman should receive £150, and that the sum of £250 be voted to Mr T. K. Macdonald, as a mark of the shareholders' approval of his services since the formation of the company.

The exodus of Australian belles to preside over ancestral homes in England still continues. The Sydney Daily Telegraph, in mentioning that Captain Trench, who for a couple of years acted as A.D.O. to Lord Carrington in Now South Wales, has returned to England, via San Francisco, adds that his fiancee, Miss Nellie Cox, second daughter of Dr. Cox, of Sydney, and sister of Viscountess Bertie, left that city a few days after direct for England, to be the guest of her future | father-in-law, the Hon. Colonel Trench, until her marriage, which is to take place early in the present year. Captain Trench (adds the Daily Telegraph) ia the third member of Lord Carrington's staff who has chosen an Australian bride.

By the Evidence Act which was passed during the recent session of the Victorian Parliament, provision was made for the licensing of shorthand reporters employed in actions at law to take down the evidence of witnesses, and whose reports may be taken as authentic, and having the stamp of official authority. The shorthand writers are to be licensed by the Chief Justice and their services may be utilised by the consent of the parties to a cause. As it is essential that certificated shorthand writers shall be thoroughly competent for the work they will be called upon to perform, it has been suggested to the Chief Secretary that examiners should be appointed to aßcertaiu the proficiency of the candidates for licenses. It has also been pointed out that tho executive of the Victorian Reporters' Association, which includes most of the members of the newspaper reporting staff of Melbourne, would be well qualified to carry out the duties of examiners. The Victorian Government think well of the suggestion and will probably act on it.

A young man at Adelaide was sent to prison for one month for hooting Governor Kintore, or at all events when his Excellency was in the vicinity. Lord Kintore promptly wrote to the Government ordering the man's release ; the tone of his communication making it apparent that, in his opinion, the punishment had been made to fit the crime — in other words, that had the culprit " boohed '' anyone else, a fine of five shillings would have been considered sufficient — and His Excellency did not like that.

We c'ip the following important testimonial irom the Illawarra Mercury (N.S.W.), of the 30th March. It needs no comment : — 'Mr John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountains writes to us that after suffering for four years with_ acute gravel, he has experienced almost

complete relief by using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extraofc. He says seeing the said Extract advertised in the Illawarra Mercury, his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr Hosking,

chemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at once. He stated that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extract and on the 19th the use of that medicine continued tc afford him relief, to which he had been a

stranger for four years. Mr Loveday writes aleo that he has found the Eucalypti Extract a cure for rheumatism as well as gravel. He requests us to publish this information through the Mercury. We have much pleasure in complying with Mr Loveday's request,

whose word cannot be doubted, and who can have no object in view other than a piu'e desire to bene§t suffering humanity." — Advt.