HANDS ITCHED FOR A YEAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9598, 9 February 1910, Page 6

HANDS ITCHED FOR A YEAR.

"lama man seventy years old. My hands were very sore and cracked open ort/the insides for over a year with large sores! They would crack open and bleed, itch, burn and ache so that I could not sleep and could do but little work. They were so bad that I could not dress myself in the morning. They would bleed, and the blood dropped on the floor. I called on two doctors, but they did me no good. I could get nothing to do me any good. About a year ago my daughter got a cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Outicura Ointment, and in one week from the time I began to use them my hands were all healed up and they have not bsen a mite sore since. They also cvi ed a bad sore on the leg of one of my neighbour's children, aud they think -very highly of Cuticura. John W. Hasty, So. Effingham, N.H., UiS.A., March sth and April 11th, 1909." Reference—R. "Towns & Co., Sydney.

His successor must be regarded as au experiment. Mr Poynton has dono very well as the Public Trustee. He has acquired in that capacity an incidental knowledge of many thiugs connected with the public service, but he has never had any experience ol tho Treasury. A man who has handled six millions' worth of property, with the State guarantee behind it, without losing a sixpeuuyworth, must bo regarded as having a head for figures; therefore the experiment of putting him into the position of chief of the Treasury is justified provided there was no one in the Treasury, among the Colonel's subordinates, fit for the Colonel's position. That, unfortunately for those subordinates, is, it is understood, the very proviso present in the case. The experiment being justified, it only remains to wait for results.

Dγ Fitchett, going to tho Public Trust, retires into a place of needed and diguified comparative repose, for which his service on the Public Trust Board has duly qualified him ; and Mr Salmoud finds a congenial home in the Solicitor-Generalship. Both will, for the future, be free from the worries incidental to a dual position—that is to say, neither will be offended by seeing opinions which he thinks ought to oe asked for from him taken to auother. They will both bf> the better for freedom from official heartburn, while the Treasury saves £1000 a year between them. Ou the whole, the new appointments meet with general applause.

The finance men declare that there is much money for investment at 5 per ceut. to per cent, for good securities. Naturally, for the balauce of trade caused by increased values of exports and diminished imports (1909) represents something like'six millions sterling. The position requires no elaboration. Jubilatiou is the word more appropriate.

The Knyvett case does not stir so much blood here as in the North. Discipline must be maintained, oven if young officers have to be baulked of the privilege of generally pitching into their seniors every time they differ from them. The plea of the Auckland deputation turns out to be nothing more tiiau (1) the evidence alleged not to have been taken down was not taken down because it was not evidence at all,aud (2) the allegation the Captain was prevented by the Court from bringing relevant evidence turns out to be that he was prevented ouly from bringing irrelevant testimony. Under the circumstances the Government could not be expected to hand over the command of the Army to Captain Knyvett aud the Committee of Aucklauders. As the latter are going to law it is difficult to tell what the next stage will be. Sufficient for the day !

The self-supporting principle of railway management is more definitely in the air than ever, for Mr Millar lias said that the railways must be made to pay all their charges. If the Government, which ouce made a great point of the three per cent, limit of profit, were to add that the reason of the change is that, in their opinion, the time has come for onding the assistance of settlers by special advantages, there would be nothing left for the Government men to regret and little for the Opposition men to criticise. The main thing is that all are agreed that the railways ought really to pay their way as a whole. Experts further agree that the way chosen for the paying is the correct way,namely, the way that refuses to run trains that are not fairly full on the average, nothing being more wasteful of railway earnings than a large proportion of useless train mileage, which has been the fate of the Dominion in the past.

In the matter of the Newcastle men there is not the same agreement about the peualty as there is about the punishment. We agree that the instigaturs to useless strike ought to be punished, but some o<; U3 think that the Unions ought to have beau fiued through them. These do not appear to imagine what would happen if the Unions refused to pay. It comes to this: that the mealy mouthed aud the invertebrate are always with us. The theory that principle iv the abstract is good but that when it comes to the concrete there must be everything except the logical conclusion, is boneless and pulpy, and of that sort there are many in the political world.