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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 11, 6 February 1909, Page 3

Cocoamit shells j»ke excellent fuel, cs(iccia Ily us tlir enormous amount of oil they contain causing them to blaze up sit once. If a piece of meat liv placed immediately in front of a Sleeping cat's nose, tlie nosti'els will begin to work as the scent is received, and all instant later the eat will wake up. The alligator is.not grown np until he is fifty years of age ; he has then obtained li'is full length. When a year old he is about a foot Ion", and at the age of fifteen his length has doubled. _ ITovsc-vacing without jockeys is one of the sports of Koine during the. carnival. The horses are started hv a gun, and are provided with spurs in the shape of small* spiked halls on eords swinging round their bodies. The Marriage T '" ,vs of and Sweden compel both parties to the matrimonial contract to produce vaccination certificates. Berlin knows poorest