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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8279, 21 October 1905, Page 5

With a load of 4401b camels are capable of travelling 12 or 14 days without water, going 40 miles a day. They are fit to work at five years old, but their strength begins to decline at 25, although they usually live, to 40. The Tartars have herds of these animals, 1000 sometimes belonging to one family. The Timbuctoo or Meharri breed is remarkable for speed, and used only for couriers, going 800 miles in eight days, with simply a meal of dates or grain at nightfall. In a certain home where the stork recently visited, there is a six-year-old son of inquiring mind. When he was first taken in to see the new arrival he exclaimed : — " Oh, mamma, it hasn't any teeth! Oh, mamma, it hasn't any hair!" Then, clasping his hands in despair, he cried: " Somebody has done us! Its an old baby." Wherever used by physicians or public the praises of Steams', Wine are sounded. This ideal nutrient tonic will do all. that is claimed for it. It is reliable. It is trustwbrthy.—Advt.