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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4646, 26 April 1902, Page 7

There is one country in the world where it is considered a crime to smoke. Abyssinia is the region, and the law forbidding tobacco dates from the year 1642. It was at first merely intended to prevent priests from smoking in the churches, but ft was taken too literally, and nowadays even foreigners have to bo careful not to bo seen smoking. Columbia has beaten Shamrock, and, according to an Irish lady, no other result was possible. There never was, she Tina told us a oue-leafed shamrock or twoluffed shamrock, and the Cup will not be brought back until a Shamrock 111. is sent out emblematical of the only true shamrock. Time may tell how far the prediction is true. . Tlipta js txit one politics! district in Great Britain which has not enjoyed the excitement of a contested election since 1885 That is Rutland, for wmch a Mr Finch has sat since November. 1867. and during those years, although there have been eight general elections this lucky member of Parliament has had to fight for his seat only once.