LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11730, 4 December 1905, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next examination for junior national scholarships and for free places in secondary and technical schools will be held on the 12th and 13th instant.

The allocation of the sum of .£3OOO voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries will take place on 6th i-'ebruary, 1906. Tlie Gazette not-^cs that no claim will be entitled to consideration if sent in later than 30th January next.

The Kaitoke School have reason to feel proud of their success in the school competitions at tho recent Show. In tho writing classes the judge was so pleased with tho work that he awarded special prizes. Considering that there' is only a handful of scholars at this school, tho result must be very gratifying to all interested.

A gruesome . ? question was asked Mr O'Eegan on Friday on the Wellington wharf, . at the conclusion of his, meeting— ."Are you in favour of Chinese taking their bones b,aek to China " "Yes, certainly," responded the candidate: "they take pretty well everything with them that they make here, and why not let them have their bones?" (Laughter.)

Steams' Headache Cure noi only cures headache, but is equally valuable in neuralgia, rheumatic pains, painful menstruation, and similar painful disorders.

A Bad Taste in the Mouth. — It is anything but pleasant to awake with a bad taste in the mouth. This always arises from a disordered stomach and may be corrected by taking a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach, and Liver Tablets, imine--"iately after, JaPF^V They cleanse and invigorate xliiCjStomach, improve the digestion,- and 7gHl e owp?a. relish' for Juis'.food. They are easy .to' tak« an 3 pleasant in effect. :■ "Just wjiaj& you needi" v Only Is 6a. Sold by Growls Oash Store and ii\ L. Spurdle. r * iV * •"

The secretary of the Horticultural Society requests that all accounts in connection with the recent Show bo sent in at once. The feature and climax of the Tapanui murder trial was {says the Otago Daily Times) Mr IFaulon's " speech for the defence. As to the facts and probabilities of the case nothing need be said; but the counsel's presentment of. the facts and probabilities, as they affected his clients, [was no less^than His skilful 'rearrangement of the/circumstantial evifjdence to fit it to 'prove the' guilt of a '-'Crown witness, hypothetically placed in the dock to point the moral, was perhaps the most striking and effective section of the address. But the whole speech was strenuous and magnetic, and when it was finished the verdict of the jury was generally foreseen.