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Mataura Ensign, 14 May 1912, Page 5

lii the Tyrol the Government still pavs for extermination of poisonous ■■snakes. It is the one European Government which now does so. One hundred thousand bales of cotton would, in 1800, have lasted the Lancashire mills for a year; now the ■same amount only feeds their spindles for a day and a-quarter. If the paper on which there is a hlack ■lead pencil writing is covered with a ■thin coating of white of or varnish ithe pencil-marks will be rendered ,pcr-