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Evening Star, Issue 12990, 8 December 1906, Page 5

A record in sparrow-shooting comes from Timarn. In the case under notice a train, of oats oectrpied a long line, and Mr Austin.' the -well-known farmer of Winchester, took cover behind a fence. The birds flow down. tire gun went off, and 100 feathered pests ' were picked np dead. -Mr Carnegie is onoe again the target of a characteristic enterprise- Ihc settlers at Ttaetihi, some where near the Taihape wilds, have been asking him to grant £3,000 for a. municipal library. The Bishop of Winchester, who takes a -..'11, interest in outdoor games, walknl from Fsirnham Castle to Famham Sports Ground, and. in addition to watching football and hockey matches, joined members of the local rifio elnb at shooting practice. His lordship fired eight, rtrands at the fifty yards range, and once found the target, registering an inner. Islington Borough Council have passed a resolution in favor of the adoption of tho metric system aa likely to result in a great saving of time alike in commercial lifo and the schools of the country. i From seaweed tho Japanese extract plaster, glne, starch, isinglass, iodine, and ■ manure for tho rioff fields. In 1904 the value of the oosweed exceeded £400,000 and of the exports ,of products .therefrom ~ h&2££SU - w-