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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1529, 27 August 1912, Page 5

There is a class of official whoso activity is little known to tho outer world. Theso men aro'tho ellicial tobacco-tasters, and thov pass iudgment on every kind of tobacco manufactured in France. They consist of a chairman and fivo assistants,, and from morning till evening they havo nothing to do but smoko cigars, cigarettes,' and pipes, in order to arrivo at an csti- ■ mate of tho different kinds of lebacco submitted to them. British regular soldiers in lho Indian army are maintained by the Indian taxpayer, though they aro under control of tho War Office in London. An unusual form of strike is reported from Sochacr.ow, a villago in Russian Poland. Tho population is almost cxelu- , sively Jewish, and a new rabbi, who found his congregation too fiivolmsly inclined, forbado the lioldiug cf dances in tho placo altogether. A deputation i>f young women waited on him and demanded that this prohibition nhould bo withdrawn, but tlw rabbi remained unyielding. All the marriageable girls of tho placo thereupon held a meeting and resolved unanimously not to wed until dancing was allowed again. For two mouths, tliero were no marriages in Soehacziw, until at length tho rabbi gave way. HIGHEST GRADE ENGLISH MOTOR CARS. / Wo have in stock at the present moment ready for immediate delivery one 1.1 h.p. extra strong Colouial Napier at i'(iSs, ono 15 h.p. Austin nt .£650, two 10 h.p. Austin (four-seator), two 10 h.p. Austin (two-seater). Catalogues and particulars to bo had from Scott Motor Agency, 57 Cuba Street, Wellington.—Advt.

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