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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7846, 12 June 1905, Page 3

A resident of Darlington (New. South Wales), in the course of a letter to a friemd in Duncdin, gives particulars of an extraordinary state ol affairs following on the recent drought. The writer states, in tha course of his letter, which is dated. May 12 :—"Our drought has broken up, and we now have cold, wet, stormy weather. The stock have suffered severely, and a good many have •perished on the stations about here. Another serious result of fchC) dry weather has-been a plague of mice. . They are swarming everywhere. We have been capturing them inj hundreds, and still they swarm. One of our neighbours killed over, 1000 the other night. They are something like Pharaoh's plagues—they invade every place. One man found under some bags in a little ibox a downy mass huddled together, of which he killed 175. The cats have come to this : they won't look at them, they are sick of mouse diet. 1 S.ometimcs, when the mood takes them, they will go in for a little hunt, and drop'their prey with a vicious little . pitp, and the living mice, driven by Uie pangs of hunger, prey upon the dead. Before that we had a plague of pumpkin Bugs, or soldier beetles, as they are sometimes called. They confined their rajvages to the garden ohiefly. swarming on everything, and devouring, plants." WAITARA WEST ROAD BOARD, tENDERS will bo received at the office of the above Board, [Lepperton, up to noon on WjEDXES[DAY, 21st June, 1905, for metalling seven chains .(more,or less) of Tq \rei Road. Specifications may be seen' at the residence of the Clerk, or at Mr, Sampson's store, Sentry Hill. W. B. FUSSELL, . • ' Clerk.

POULTRY SOCIETY'S Annual- Art Union. (By permission ot Colonial Secretary.) Ist Prize, GOLD NUGGET, ~* ■ / .Value £2O. 2nd Prize, GOLD NUGGET, Value £4. 3rd Prize, HANDSOME CROCHETED QUILT £3 3s And neveral other prizes. 'aluable prizes won last year by New Plymouth resident*. To be drawn, as usual, at Show, SATURDAY,' JULY 29, at 8.30 p.m. Tickets at Teed's Pharmacy, from the Committee, or-from E, P* WEBSTER. Secretary, brougham 'Street.

WHITELEY MEMORIAL CHURCH. Ten Days' Evangelistic Mission. SUNDAY, JUNE l&tfc, —To— WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28tH, MISSIONER: W. G. TORR, M.A., 8.C.L., L.L.D. (Sou'cß Australia). DAIRY FARMS WAIMATE ' 153 Acres.—Waimate Plains. Splendid dairy land. Good house and milking shed. Metal road. Creamery and school handy. Leaso 5 years at 22s 6d. No goodwill. 120 Acres—Mangat«ki. First quality dairy farm. Fine house. Large shed. Metal road. Eltham 8 miles. Trice £24 per acre. • I*6o Acres.—Wainiate. Excellent land. Two, houses. Metal road. Lease for 12 years at 16s. Goodwill only £2OO. Write for Fanners' Budget. Descriptions of several hundred properties on this coast. ATKINSON

THRIFTY WOMEN, not buy cheap goods, but buys good goods at cheap prices, thus deriving both pleasure and profit from the investment: LOOK FOR VALUE IN TEA , AND BUY SURATURA TEA. Suratura 5s an economical tea, .because a given measure of Suratura will v bre\v, a larger quantity of rich 11fjuor than a like measure of other teas. In nil thrifty hoiisehol'ds Suratura is "the popular tea ; it is a pure honest Ceylon tea,' guaranteed not blended with Indian, China, or any cheap or inferior teas. ■RETAIL PRICES.: Suratura A' Quality—ls M per It). Suratura B quality—ls 9d per lb.; Suratura D quality—2s per lb. Suratura X qual'ty—2s 4d per lb. SOLD BY ALL STOREKEEPERS.