PRESERVED MEATS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 41, 7 February 1908, Page 2

PRESERVED MEATS.

WAI! OFFICE PEIJUiKEMENTS. Received Feb. (I, 0.30 p.m., .London, Febrtiarv 0. The War Ollice is inviting lenders up till May 4th for 533,280 12-ounce tins and 200,(i!)0 J 24-ouuee tins of preserved meat for delivery in September and November.

The reason cats dislike water is because there is nothing oily about their fur. Consequently it is easily wetted, and does not dry quickly. Below 1,000 fathoms there is a uniform temperature in the ocean depths—always a few degrees above freezingpoint; never more, never less.

Eels have invaded (lie \vatcr-uiain« supplying the east side of .New York to such an extent that in several places the pipes have become choked. llr. John Elshaw, who died reeenllv at the age of 104, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, leaves ninety-four descendants. His father died at the age of lflti; his grandfather at 105, and his grandmother at 102. The branches of the banyan-trce-the Indian fife —throw out supports which take root when they reach the ground and m their turn produce similar branches. One banyan is m([ to have sheltered 7,000 men.

Jho largest quill toothpick factory in the world is near Paris, where there is an annual product of twentv million . qui s. Hie factory was started to make , quill pens, .but when these went out of general use it was converted into a toothpick mill. A speed of 34</» knots, equal to forty miles, per hour, was attained on her official steam trials by the torpedo-de-stroyer Mohawk, built liv Messrs. J. Samuel White & Co. The vessel is fitted with steam turbines, and is the fastest war vessel in the world. l'olieemcn are complaining of a new disease, which they declare is caused l'y the fumes of motor-omnibuses. The men who sutFer most arc those engaged in directing traffic at such centres of London as the Bank, Ludgate Circus, and Holborn Circus. The symptoms, they declare, are headache and sore throat. If you throw a £5 note into the fire it seems like awful extravagance, yet you may be, wasting many pounds every | year by using an Inferior separator, and think nothing of it. Bu an "Alfa-Laval" and note how your bank balance will grow by its savings. The former leakage will then become very apparent to you.. The "Alfa-Laval" will cut your bilk for repairs, oils, etc., in halves. Half a million dairymen scattered all over the world are finding the "AlfaLaval" Separator tUe best investment

I they ever made fn-dairying. Might this not" be true with' you too? Catalogue "T" mailed free on application. Sole agents ' for New Zealand, Mason, Struthcrs and Co., Ltd., Main-street, Palmerston North. E. (iHffiths and Co.. New 'Plymouthj, Local Agents.

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