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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7998, 8 December 1905, Page 3

The l*rinco of Wahw visitnl Khybcr I'ass under nn Afrtdl escort. The Railway Department have an advertisement In this issue re holiday excursion tickets (or ttiv I Christmas and New Year holidays. Experiments at Malum show that Professor Hchring's prophylactic is completely efficacious against bovine tuberculosis. Owing to the Theatre lloyal lieing In possession of a theatrical fompany the prizes in connection with the Central School will lie distributed In ' the Reboot on Friday afternoon, at 2.80 o'clock, when parents and friends will tie welcome. Further particulars of the steam pipe explosion at the Wellington electric light works the other day show that it was due to the bursting of a 7-inch steam main. Tin • steam was under pressure of about 1401b, and the force of the explosion \ hurled portions of the main into the * air, wrecking the eorrugatul iron rod and filling the ploce with steam. The Jewish World tells the story of a rabbi who expounded the Jewish |law for a small stipend. The learned man was asked how* he nas getting on. "If it were nut for the numerous tests which our religion proscribes," he answeri*!, "I am sure my family woukl die of starvation." There Is now on view at Her Majesty's Theatre Hotel. Sjdney, a unique wooden carving which hits bnenf xlescr'bed as one of th.' most Iwrfect images of a man eih-r made. The image was made by the Japan. t*e artist, Hanantima Masakicki. of Tokjo, who carved 2000 pin'i-s of Wood fnto an exact replica of him•df as lie postal between two mirrnm. Into the wood' hairs wire drilled, and the resuil.is that every muscle, vein, and hair of the worknan's hodv ha* tjeen reproduced carving was first e.-hibited ,f d<v it came