POLITICAL NOTES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12583, 2 October 1908, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

DEFENCE AMENDMENT BILL.

Cfccpnv .pux t ParU«neut«y .Special.— Bar r ' ;Tetep£tfn> - : WELLINGTON, October 1. r The Defence Amendment Bill which has been introduced in the Legislative Council is a short measure dealing briefly with matters of discipline. Under the principal Act, the power to dismiss a volunteer for disobedience or misconduct rests w'th the officer commanding a district, acting on the report of the officer commanding a corps. It is proposed in- the Bill to place this power in the hands of the Council of Defence, acting on the recommendation of the officer commanding a district after due enquiry by him. The power to disrate a noncommissioned officer is to remain as at present, with the officer commanding the district.

Volunteer corps equipments are now admitted duty free, and the Bill prposes the same concession in regard to flquipment for officers of the Defence Forces.

--PETITION.

Mr Arnold presented to-day a petition from Margaret Pinker ton, asking ior a compassionate allowance in consideration of the services rendered to the Dominion by her late husband, the Hon. D. Pinkerton, M.L.C. .

Mr W. Cox, Humffray Street, Ballarat, Victoria, writes — "I have been a ,rreat sufferer from rheumatism and having obtaineu the greatest relief by the u&e of Chamberlain's Pain Balm I cannot speak too highly of it. Whenever I feel the rheumatic pains coming on, I give the affected parts, a few applications and it always arrests the attack. I know several people who have used Chamberlain'^ Kiin Balm and they all speak in the highest praises of it." For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

A FOOD DIGESTIVE TABLE.

The time taken to digest food will be information that will interest all, but more particularly those subject to Indigestion and Stomach troubles. Rice, boiled soft, 1 hour. Apples, sweet and ripe, 1 hour 30 minutes. Sago, boiled, 1 hour 45 minutes. Tapioca, barley, stale bread, boiled milk, and bread and milk, cold, two hours. Potatoes, roasted, and parsnips, boiled, 2 hours 30 minutes. Baked custard, 2 hours 45 minutes. Apple dumplings, 3 hours. Bread, corn, baked, and carrots boiled, 3 hours 15 minutes. Potatoes and turnips boiled, butter, and cheese, 3 hours^SO min-* jutes.j utes. Venison, 1 hour 30 minutes. Oysters. \ arid eggs, raw, 2 hours 3 minutes. Turkey., and goose, 2 hours 30 minutes. Eggs, soft ' boiled, beef, and mutton, roasted or boiled, 3 hours. Boiled pork, stewed oysters, j eggs, hard boiled or fried, 3 hou»3« minutes. Domesjdc fowls, 4 'hours."' Teal, roasted, 5 hours 30 minutes. To aid digestion, you should take. 8 to M) drops of ."' lIMPEY'S MAY APPLE after each. meal. This does the work in nature's own way. Price, 2a 6d.

A WORD TO WOMEN! Wherever Women gather there there is always a good word for Ferro-Stout, the ideal Tonic Stimulant, which combines the strength-giving elements of Pure Barley Malt, the nerve-building properties of Hope, with the rich red blood-producing characteristics of Salts of Iron. J. G Swan and Co., Manufacturer!.

A young man bought a "cheap iack" Bike, He thought 'twas just the biscuit, But when it broke in two he cried. "I was an ♦ it." He's riding mow a good machine. At Draffin'a- shop he got it. No more he'll deal in cheap-jack bikes, And please., "don't you forget it." WVDRAtfFtN, GUTTON STBEET.