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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 September 1908, Page 1

A bachelor and spinster in the Bed worth district of Warwickshire hay( been encaged for 40 years. There is "o indication of an early wedding. Charles Lawrenco was sentenced t< six weeks' hard labour at Westminote] for torturing a parrot in a public house by pulling out its feathers. The veeion about the Dead Sea is on. of the hottest, places on the globe, anc the sea is said to lose 1,000,0*00 tons o water a day by evaporation. The average declared value of eoa and coke exported from the Unitei Kingdom this year has fallen from IJ fld a ton for January to 12s 8d fc .lune. Notice of intention to cancel regis tration of the Shipowners' Assoeia tion of New Zealand is given in th "Gazette." Nine tenders have been receivei for tho construction of the nay Wollington Post Offlce. Most o them Bre from Wellingtoa contrac tors. It Is said tnat there are 2,784,27 hens in New Zealand, of whic 1,670,560 lay oggs; and that there ar also 282,000 ducks, of which 170,00 are layers. Tho laying hons and duck produce about 80 eggs per annum o an average. So that the total eg output consists of about 133,644,80 hen eggs and 13,600,000 duck eggs. Erfurt, in Prussia, is- known throu out Germany bb the Flower City. A oordine to a United States Consul report. 3000 persons are engaged in tl seed industry there, and- the area > (glass used is 1,250,085 feet.