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Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5968, 10 August 1912, Page 4

A train which left Bo'ivar, in South America, tor a ncifhliourin_> town throe years aaro, has iu: t arrived. The distance covered was 120 kilometre!, and the reason for the delay was a storm which derailed tle> train, killed most cf the pas: .ng.. s, and ripped up such a sroodlv nortion of the .railway Hdc that the company owning it was forced into bankruptcy. Six' ,ir.ionlhs afro an Almerican e-iiv f V undertook the reconstruction of the road, and brought the long-dclaye 1 11 am to the point for which it originally started.

A proprietor of a cheese factory, with a vie«' to finding out how his cheese compared with other brands from! the Dominion, enclosed a nolo with one cheese,' a skinc the purchaser to give his candid opinion thereon. He. was nol highly delighted when hu received the following laconic reply from a Birmingham m.'rclvant -I—"Mr •, your cheese, was rotten."

The Auckland Drivers' I'nion. by* US votes to 38, have deleted from their minutes'a resolution previously passed to Pay £&) to the Waihi and Rx-fton strike funds and circulate a subscription list among the members inviting voluntary contributions.

For influenza take Woods Great Peppermint Cure. New.- fa'l-' Is 6d 2s (id...