The bar is on once more at the mouth of j ihe. Tokomairiro River, and the waters are i Sacking up rapidly. There hae been (the | §ruoe Herald says) a clearance for the last , i 8 months, but the low river has caused the j bar to form again, so it is likely to eon- [ tjnue until a fresh occurs to clear it, unless urtifioial means are adopted. The road will Sjooo be submerged if the bar it not cleared.
During the influenza scare eucalyptus oi! i came into such demand that over 20,0001 b ! were sent to England from California. : The tree has been planted in immense ! quantities in that State. ; A mysterious ringing of electric bells in a house in Switzerland was traced to a spider, whose web had connected two ' wires*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 4
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