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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 699, 27 October 1909, Page 6

The colonies last year supplied England with about £24,000,000 worth of wool. The largest turbine engines on the Lusitauia weigh between 400 and 500 tons. A house well built of the best brick, it is said, will outlast one constructed of granite. Six and a-half tons of pure gold was the cargo of a ship which recently set out from Alaska. All the Russian railway stations keep complaint books, where passengers may enter various protests. The new French submarine Archimede, of 800 tons, the largest in the world, was launched at Cherbourg last month. President Taft has instructed the Secretary of War to reduce the standing army from 88,000 to 80,000. The annual cost of the United States soldier in peace time is £240. At a poll of ratepayers at Invercargill yesterday, it was decided by a majority of about three to one to borrow £75,000 for tramways. A backblocks editor received the following letter:—" Please send me a few copies of the paper which had the obituary and verse about the death of my child a week or so ago. Also, publish the enclosed clipping about my niece's marriage. And I wish you would mention in your local columns, if it don't cost anything, that I have a couple of bull calves for sale. Send me a couple of extra copies of the paper this week. As my subscription is out, please stop my paper. Times is too hard to waste money on newspapers." . .r O'mlmM YV purely £')ar\ Absolute \ VegefablejMjermicide, ©ocoriQ flig.- Pimples, Sot „1^..-.«,..clmigor Bleeding t -„...,. .-,,. Dad Lxfli, Stings of Insects, and all kinds ol Int Sole proprietors LAXO TONIC PILL COMPANY Under the present regulations a Chinese who goes away from New Zealand must return within four years if he wishes to re-enter the country without payment of the poll-tax again. One of the nine Chinese who arrived at Wellington by the Manuka on Wednesday had exceeded his holiday-time by two or three weeks,, and a very woe-begone expression came over him as he was left alone on the ship, his eight fellowcountrymen having been permitted to land. The unfortunate Chinaman will be required, according to the present statute, to pay the poll-tax afresh, besides passing the education test of reading and writing. Formerly, says the Post, the limit of time during which a Chinaman could be absent from New Zealand without repayment of the tax on return was ten years.