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Otago Witness, Issue 2983, 17 May 1911, Page 61

There was a big opium smoke at Kirin', Manchuria, one day in March. Its 6mokA ing being now prohibited, all the opium; stored in the Government warehouses warf burned in the presence of representatives, of the Administration. _ _ -^j There are some pretty large families m New South Wales. At Newport there lives a fisherman of 7 0 years with 23 living chiW dren the youngest being twins, aged three years And the wife of a Katoomba ea-v gineraan has 27 children, all living. i That there are some fairly large famn lies in the Stratford census area is proved bv an analysis of the figures recently pol' lected These show that 2141 forms were collected and that the average numbed of names on each was five. The resultf (says an is all toe rrior£ encouraging in view of tih© large numb?* of single men working on the railway, construction works who are included i»' the return. The Southland Times states tha,t the, oause of the deterioration in the quality of oysters a few months ago has at lasft been" found. The source of the whok». trouble was exposure to the sun spfe. which the oysters were subjected on thei decks of the boats. The sun affected the ovsters to such an extent that wheij/ deposited in the Bluff beds they werfi dead.' It was only after much > tion that the caiise of the inferior quality of these .oysters was disclosed, and aftejf', such a tvojvyi.ag and costly 1 experienjqjj there is little danger that any more eoxrii »lnint.« will be forthoominsr on this scori'