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Bay of Plenty Times, 18 November 1895, Page 2

The bullock whose weight formed the si/oject of the guessing competition at the Palmersfon Show scaled 8681 b. Messrs E. Hull, Wanganui, and Q-. Bartlett, Danevirke, guessed 8671 b, and. Mr J. Bull, BuUs, guessed 8691 b. Mr Bartlett'* guess was put in for Mr J. Parker, of Danevirke, ! who in 1893 put ia two guesses and took first and second prizes (lib out onJy), while in 1894 he was only 31bs out. He has told the weight of t^ree bullocks within slbs— a good reSome ten thousand grey rats, larger [than squirrel* invaded a cultivated and fertile Jropic Island, 20 miles south of iMusville, Fla. (U.S.A.), drove off thji dozen families resident there, and Quickly made the island of |sixß(|iiare miles desert. - The "wue of a journeyman baker at Kingston-on-Thames had four children at a birth, all girls, three of whom are doing well.