He had had a couple of drinks and had retired into .a back parlour with 'a friend, to -vhom he recited "the soldiering parts" of "Henry the Fifth.*' " "The barmaid may not have appreciated it," remarked de fendant, ."but myj friend did and .would have liked more of it, but the, lad; tripd to put me out." Defendant con tinuing, contended 'that he *ould not have recited Shakespeare had he bp<»n drunk. Ho admitted..,' that ho was "speaking in a loud voice so as to give /jyl effect" to the recital. He nad nwer 7ypou handled like that by a lady before, an£. po i}i not like \p. He took off his coat — he' supposed 'it wasj second nature— r and affcer tha^; hg'lffop' hfp tHe wai,' ndwevp'r, very sorry Tor he hod done. - !yhe magistrate, t^e. dpfondah't had expressed "RiA for t£e BiinpyancQ he * hud caused', «$ ho .would *inj^y ponyjej; andqrd.er him to come up' for sentencf wfipq fiß#od upon. ', Thclr-an%i S?t at JlesJi.T=Tl>e claim of .other cough jpedjajnoj to be os-gogd as- Chamberlain b arc esecj,u%J'y s£t at rpsfc m *he foHqwjng festiinonwl of f/ti O,^D. 6'asg, m employe of gartjett and Dennis Cp,, e»*?4fJtf?," ; mt ißfe-says: "I bad kept n&ilna to » PPUgJf and po}d ,in ■ tho. winter of 1897, trying. e^ry cpfigh medicine I heard of, without per manent help, until one day I was in tho drug store of Mr Houlohan and he ad vised mo to 'try -Chamberlains Cough and offered to' pay back my {money if I was not cured. My lungs itFit! bronchial tubes were very sore at .Shoi Mwf), but I^aq completely cured jby .^is' rfenjedjr, and have since always ■turned te'if'wilin'ljrat a, cold, and f po*^r^o l udd'telte3 l. J'aJwa^a* recommend

'Mr Donald Macddnald, who -is Mall lecturing .ou> the Kruger Question with his »usual' v «uccos«," under the -manage-" ment qt.Mc-.Edward Geaoh, -has. been interviewed by a Townsville journal as t to his, impression of Australiafa-., Judg ing from the following' N^w .Zealand evidently hit'the Jo3pularsc6nr^ipqn4ent ▼cry nard. ' Iw l "Jdfa6Stonald M *Bays :"— "I have been- all over New*^Zealand., ,1 give preoendence to no New Z&klander m admiratiotfof it. 'ilt iaii my'opinidn the histand; brigheat. little oountrr on earth.'. It in not' only;,prosperbii»,''but as a consequence of. 