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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2951, 5 January 1912, Page 2

Someone, discussing a member of the Government who had been a great failure, once remarked to Mr. Lowe : " They want to make him a peer!" *' No," retorted he, with his usual acerbity ' " they want to make him disappear !" A plague of snails on the coast of Ceylon is assuming seriou6 proportions. Millims of snails are to be found, and some of them weigh as much as a pound. The snails have beirun feeding on the young cocoanut trees, and it is feared that they maj ttack the young rubber tree*.