GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2266, 11 August 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

Colory is regarded as the lucky plant by tho modern Greeks and is hung up in rooms, placed on silkworm frames, and given to children. In Germany all workmen, servants, and clerks above sixteen getting less than £IOO a year are obliged by law to insure against old age. FfUST AID TO THE INJURED. Accidents are common to every household, and it is necessary to bo ready for such emergencies. A bottle of Dr. Sheldon’s Magnetic Linimont and a roll of soft bandngeo will relieve many a sufferer. It bakes the pain from every burn or bruise; will heal any and every sore ; destroys the poison from stings of insoots; btojos neuralgia and cures rheumatism. No family can afford to bo without Dr Shohfou’s Magnetic Liniment. Keep a bottle on the shelf in plain sight, that it may bo quickly found union needed. Price Is Gd and 3s. Obtainable at A. \V. J. Mann’s, Chemist, Agent.

'On the old Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway there is a stretch of 142 miles of straight track, broken by one short curve. This is believed to bo the iongest straight; track in the world. MOUNTAINS OF GOLD According to old legends, oxist in tho fabled land of El Dorado; but all the gold in this marvellous land would not compensate you for tho loss of health and life, so li'koly to happen ns tho result of ravages of that fatal disease called Consumption. Happily, this dreaded fatality can be prevented through tho use of Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. A positive, scientific, specific euro for these deadly germs diseases, which is better for the sick than all the gold in the world. It is a remedy which actually destroys the germs, vitalises the tissues, and builds the weakened system back to health. It is a reliable, safe, honest medicine, which never fails to do the work it is intended for. A guarantee goes with every bottle. Try it. Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable at A. W. J. Mann’s, Chemist, Agent. One day a workman in a biscuit factory on the banka of the Thames was attached to a crane-hook bv some of his fellow-workmen and hoisted fifty feet in the air. From that height the poor fellow dropped to the ground, and received injuries which crippled him for life. The ho sting was a “practical jo'kc,” but an action for relief under the Compensation Act ' was brought against the employer. In the coni't below dt„wus held that a tortuous act of a fellowworkman which bad no relation ;o tho employment and did not arise out of tho" employment, could not be made the bass of a claim for compensation, and in that view the Court of Appeal has new unnivinouely coibumxl. One feels intensely sorry for the victim of brutal .-hoasg* n!av v acid wishes Hint could beyond the reach of want. But. it seems'to be a case in which trade unions, workmen’s clubs, and kindred bodies should find the money as a kind of penance for the stupidity of some members of their own class. THE ONLY CURE. To cure a Cold When you have no cough; To cure a cough when you have To euro a Cough When you have no cold; To euro Yourself When you have both; Take Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery For Coughs, Colds, And Consumption. Take no substitute. Obtainable at A.W.J. Mann’s Chemist, Agent.