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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 1 June 1899, Page 2

The AVellington Acclimatisation Society appointed a deputation to urge the Premier to make the shooting of both imported and native game begin on May Ist to prevent the wanton slaughter of birds. At the Rangiora Court, C. Hands and his wife were charged , with making a declaration that they arrived in the colony in 1873, whereby they obtaiued pensions, whereas they really arrived in 1875. They wero fined £4 10s and costs, and placed on , probation for six months, in lieu of a | month's imprisonment, which the Justices had decided to inflict. His was an expressive face, a face of the vegetable marrow 'type j a mouth, well, it might have been cut with a hay spade.and such a voice— something between a leaky cistern and a fog horn, but he had sense and eighteenpenoe. He says to the chemist now : "Have you got a bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds? Nothing else will do for me. It beats hospitals."