GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2241, 13 July 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

Since 1905 to May til, 1908, the South Australian Fisheries Department has pud bonuses for the destruction of 30,000 cormorants, ami 90.000 fici.li water turtles. It is believed that each cormorant consumes 21b of fish a, (lay,; and the turtles destroy grevt quantities of spawn. THE LATEST AND THE BEST Remedy for Chest Complaints is I)r. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. It cures when all olse fails. Br.ico, Is Gd and 3s. Obtainable at A. AV. J. Mann s, chemist, agent. Already a spirit of nationalism has arisen in Persia which has to bo reckoned with. ’1 iie central fact to-day i 9 that the East—in Egypt, in India, in Persia —is anxious t<> move -forward. And Europe is blocking the wav! —“Egyptian Standard,’’ Cairo. FOOTBALLERS. After the match is won or lost, try Dr. Sheldon’s Magnetic Liniment for all bruises and strains. *lt will make you fit for your next struggle. Obtainable at A. AV.J. Mann’s, chemist, agent. The supply of wood suitable for tea-boxes m Ceylon is said to be running short. Hitherto it lias been procured from Japan, where the numo tree lias furnished all that was required. The Japanese plantations are giving out, and enquiries are being made as to whether Australia can supply a substitute. The wood must bo absolutely free from odour of any kind; it must also bo tough and not too heavy. . . A LUMBAGO. That stabbing pain in the small of the back, which accompanies every movement of the body, lias its cure in Dr. Sheldon’s Magnetic Liniment. Obtainable at A. AV. J. Mann’s, chemist, agent. According to the London “Standird,” a new paper is t 0 appear in England with tine special object of de : fying the law of libel. It will gossip arid scandalise ,alul criticise with absolute frankness —particularly in its commercial column. AVhe.re other papers print that a. bank is. shaky, it will give names and reasons. It will be sold in England, but not printoil there. Its office will be somewhere on the coast of Belgium or Franco —so near to England that it can bo delivered early in 'London. It will have no offices in England, and its writers will not bo known. DEATH RATE DECREASED. The “Chicago Tribuno,” in a recent article on what medical science has been able to accomplish for the benefit of humanity, drew particular attention to the one great fact that stands pre-eminent in the light of reliable statistics, viz., that the deathrate of the world has. through its agency, been positively decreased. One of the chief factors in this decrease is the marvellous success which is nowadays attained in the treatment of that fatal type of diseaso classified under the heading of “Lung Troubles.” This is accomplished by the use of Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. Modern medicines can point to no more marvellous achievement that the perfecting of this grand, unfailing, specific cure, which can be relied on to save the lives of all who take it in time.' Guaranteed to curep or money back. Priee, Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable at A. AV. J. Mann’s, chemist, agent.