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Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1912, Page 5

Sixty thousand elephants are slaughtered every year to supply the world with ivory. Mr Hitchcock, the American Post-master-General, the only bachelor in Mr Taft's Cabinet, has received a leapyear nroposal from a woman at Houston, Texas. A South London costernioiiger for a wager ate 15 pancakes and drank two quarts of ale in 20 minutes. He afterwards walked from T»ambeth to Croydon and hack, and on his arrival home consumed a hearty tea. which included muffins.