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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 28 February 1907, Page 3

It is reported that, like more than one other of the world's great isolated sheets of water, Lake Chad is rapidly drying up. The depth of its waters is lessening by no leys than on a year, a rate of diminution which, if it continues unchecked; will lay bare by far the greater portion, at any rate, of the floor of "this shallow sheet of water at a period not very remote. There seems to be no clearly understood cause to explain the alteration* of rainfall and temperature which resuit in the gradual shrinking of these great sheets of water; but the great desert tracts of Africa and Asia are full of evidence thai the process U a very general one, and has been in operation for a very long period of time.

Hack iu tlii! days when Taraw.'ra Wih turbulent the following story originates. Tlic characters arc still with ns, and we must therefore let their names lie and jirown. The day of the eruption, these two lio-uni ifrionds had drank too wi-.cly but too well of Cue beer of those times and both, strange to relate, fell into a Hip Van Winkle sleep. Mcanwh le Tarawera thundered and belehed and affrighted citizens sought, safely beyond the confines of the old town. Tlie c,aillh rocked and things generally were smashed, but neither Smith nor Brown »t rrcd • from their slumbers which were almost as loud and deep as the grumblings of Tarawera itself. They awoke at last to find a deserted town, and quickly made 'their way to the public to refresh. -Much to Ihe:r ,urpr -e and del glit they found the hotel deserted too. Not troubling to enquire the reason they hugged om another with delight and procc)lU' I to drink' themselves into tile suite they ,\vcrc subsequently found by the returnI nig inhab taut*, —Kotonia Times.

nil-; (;r,i/:!ii;iTY of pander & SOX'S J'UKE VOLATILE EUCA IAL'TI LXTKACT I.i universally acknowledged. Royalty honors it, awl lite entire medical profession lias adopted its use. lmitnt ! on« sprang up without number. The latest of whom —all styled "Extracts'—was an oil foisted upon

tlie trusting and unwary, under the grossest misuse of Sander and Sons' imputation. Sandor and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme Court of Victoria, before his Honor Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, IC.C.Metc., and at tlie trial a sworn witness testified that he had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irrital tion produced, ■ _ T"fl : s shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tested and ajpppoved) of. As such is solely endorsed 1 and recommended. THE GENUINE SANDER & SON'S PURE VOLATILE EUCAtyYil'-l j EXTRAOTi - : i L«