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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 18 September 1912, Page 6

It is definitely announced (states a Sydney cable) that the Board of Control foregoes its share of tlio profits in the Australians' tour, and the players will now receive £220 each. A private message from Wellington states that the Turakina will sail on the 26th inst., and that the Athemc will not take cheese cargo. Three Wanganui bakers were charged on Monday with selling bread below weight, the shortages being given as Boa in a 21b loaf to 3oz to 4oz in ill) loaves. In giving his„.decision, ,Mr. Kerr, S.M., said tliat as these were the first cases of the .kind that Had come before him in Wanganui, he would not impose anything like the maximum penalty (£2O). Ho had to make it a fairly substantial one, However', to prevent a repetition. If this did not serve as a warning he would inflict much greater penalties in other cases of this nature, that came before him, as the public miist be safeguarded. A tine of £2 and costs would no inflicted in each.of the three cases. The Prison Board sat at New Plymouth on Monday and yesterday, ami investigated the claims for release of all indeterminate prisoners at the local gaol, and those of other prisoners s'-rvTno- under its jurisdiction. The person nof of the Board, whose recommendations will be forwarded on to the Minister for Justice, is as follows: Sir Robert Stout (President), Dr. *. Hay,' the Rev. J. L. A. Kayll (secretary), and Messrs. V. G. Ewington J. R. Blair, G. Fonwick, and urn. Recce. The majority of the Board, including the President, left by this morning's train for Wellington. If asked to name the strongest animal, most persons begin with the largest, the elephant, and continue with oxen, horses, etc. This, is, of course, correct in so far as their total horse power is concerned; but for real strength, proportioned to the size and weight of the animal, one must go to the insect world. Compared with insects, the strength of almost any large animal, and especially of man, is absurd. A man is considered strong if he can drag a mass weighing throe or four times as much as himself, but the beetle will walk with 500 times his own weight. If a man wore placed under a wooden box with five times bis weight on top to hold it down, he vvoiild remain there indefinitely; but (says the "Animals' Friend") to retain a stag beetle prisoner in the same way, one must pile on top of the box at least 1800 times its weight. For Influenza, take Woods' Great Peppermint Cuo. Nover fails. Is 6d and 2s 6d. x