A £2O handicap pigeon match is to take place in Mr Whitehouse's paddock at Porirua on [Saturday, oth March. Shooting commences on the arrival of the train from Wellington at 11 a.m. Mr A. 11. Bonnie is the promoter of the match.
Medical science" souks to add a new terror to life. The telephone it is this time. The Paris Faculty of Medicine have reported that there is groat danger of spreading contagious diseases, especially diphtheria, through the telephone. At the same time they oiler their crumb of consolation: This, they say, can he prevented by the use of a specially prepared antiseptic paper. The cost of the French soldier is stated to ho under JC2O a year. Out of this sum ho receives about <£s in the shape of pay, and a little over JJS for rations.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1199, 22 February 1895, Page II (Supplement)
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