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Mataura Ensign, 14 May 1912, Page 6

For Childden's Hacking Cough at night i Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d. When a recent visitor from New Zealand was touring England, he visited a brass foundry of considerable size, and he happened to ask one of the proprietors if his firm was represented in New : Zealand. "I believe so, if not we have . a representative in Australia," was tht •. reply. "Oh, no," said another head oi . the firm, "our agent is in Jamaica." "Well, I knew I was not far out," replied the first captain of industry spoken to, "I knew it was somewhere in that vicinity." Two Guineas for four lines of poetry -• Read Tonking's Linseed Emulsion in } timation e v ery Saturday amongst newi t items. 5 7 1 The Sydney "Telegraph' publishes tin ? following "fish story," which tale, oi ■ one somewhat similar, ran through tin , New Zealand papers some years ago: s —Colonel F. Meysey-Tliompson, writ e in<r, on the viciousness of eels, state! a that on an out-station in New Zealanc e owned by a relative of his a grea I. many drowning fatalities occurred a- !- one particular spot in a river near by i- and notices were put up cautioning people against bathing there. The cur rent was very strong —sufficient to taj the powers of a good swimmer—and i was a favorite pastime among the resi dents to have a tussel with the current. Time after time the swimmei would disappear with a shriek befor-t assistance could reach him, and wher the body was finally recovered it was .invariably found to have been mutilatfed by eels. The cause of these fatali(ties was for a long time undiscovered, various theories being advanced, and the general opinion was that the swimmer had been attacked by cramp, occasioning his collapse. The true cause was discovered at last. While a bather was battling against tho stream a large eel seized him by the leg and dragged him beneath the surface. Same of the eels taken from that particular stream weighed between 201b and 301b.

Let na help you in your selection of yovtr new bicycle. We hold agencies for no Igsb than seven different makes of the best English and American bicycles, We arc eJso agents for the King Dick motor bicycle which has proved 'tself a ver? reliable machine—catalogue on ap plication. We are large direct importers i>f all accessories pertaining to bicycles »r,d motor bicycleo and we receive eekly shipments of tyres. The utlities »r« right and the prices are the lowest. Get your cycle retyred at Q. W. Main Btr©st. Gor«.