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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12468, 18 February 1909, Page 4

The dutes of the fly and the reason for its existence appear to be the consumption of those dead and minute animals whose decaying myriads would otherwise pojson the. air. Four hundred different newspapers are printed in London. Their weekly circulation numbers 30,000,000, and their expenditure for news each day amounts .to £12,000. '■• Richard Respass, a Baltimore trades man, is" offering free funerals and monuments to those customers who obtain: a y certain number of trading stamps.' ['-.■ '■■'■■_'' ' Very small sums of money being^ found iii.the gas meter at the house of a man at Ardwick, a collector paid a surprise visit and discovered that eas was being obtained from the main tHPe by means of a small rubber pipe, the fittings on the meter having W removed. The man was fined 21s with costs. So many ships are lying idle in. tb.p Tyne that owners are unable to fan <l accommodation in the ports =f or jtheir ships and. one Newcastle owner has been obliged to send two steamships -to Tie docked in Norway.