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Canada has enacted a Jaw providing for the payment of a salary to the leader -of the Opposition in Parliament.
Certain bank-notes that circulate m Austria-Hungary are ornamented with the portrait of a favorite prima .donna
An advertisement from the Yorkshire Post: /'Would any lady of means care to marry a poor, crowded-out Clerk, aged 37?"
Under the auspices of tlie University of Friebea'g, Switzerland, a business academy for women only has been opened in that city-
The Alsatian city of Malha/usen not only peovides free baths for its school children, but free medical inspection and dental treatment.
THE DENEHOLES OF ESSEX.
Professor T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., told the Essex Field Club, at Stratford on Saturday, that he and Mr Cole had spent six weeks underground in the Essex depeholes in the via'nity of Grays.
It was clear, he said, that the holes, some of which -were 150 ft. deep and had extensive chambers at the foot, had beau originally made aiT6torehouses and hidingplaces j the district being contiguous to the mouth of the Thames, and thus liable to attacks from sea-robbers. The holes had been named after the Danes.
RHEUMATIC SFFFERERS.
Many sufferers from rheumatism have been surprised and delighted ait the prompt relief obtained by applying Chamberolin's jam.Calm.j am. Calm. In advising you to use Cham-ber-lain s Pain Balm for Rheumatism, we know it will giro you perfect satisfaction, as the nrsi application will relieve the P^| n » and its continued use for a short time will effect a cure. For sale by W. X Wallac«, chemist, and H. E Harris, grocer — Advt.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9068, 14 April 1906, Page 6
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267VARIOUS ITEMS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9068, 14 April 1906, Page 6
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