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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 3

_Tto fanners, who were summoned in the Isle of Wight for non-jaymeni of special expenses (sanitary) rate, said they appeared :in' court as a protest against a scandalous waste of public money by the rural district council. The council, it was stated, had laid sewer and water mains to an' isolation hospital by the Local Government Board, with the result that another site had to be got, the money spent in the first instance being practically throw i away. The Bench, in making an order for payment of the rate, said they thought the affair was: rather hard on the ratepayers. Ob! Bee that poor man with a oern, And note how bo bobbles, forir/m; PBOGANDEA will earn nun, So pissse do not tease him, He'll b» liio a now baby born. BARRACLOUGH'S PROGANDRA FOR COBNS, b. A height of 2i,SiO feet—an altitude never before reached by man in mountain climbing—was achieved by the Duke of the.Abruziii on Bride Peak during his recent expedition in the Himalayas. Owing to bad weather, the summit (25,119 feet) conld not be reaohed, although the party stayed for three weeks at an altitude of over 21,000 feet in tho hope that the weather would clear. Up to IG.OOO fept none ofthe party felt inconvenience due to the rarefaction of the air, but between, 16,000 and 20,000 feet there were cases of insomnia, want of appetite, aud abnormal frequency of the pulse. For Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. NeTer faile, Iβ, ed., I k 6d.-Adrt. ,