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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1919, Page 5

An extraordinary sight was witnessed on Monday evening, when thousands of I mutton-birds entered the estuary in quest of sardines (remarks the Western Star). The river, from the bar to the traffic bridge, was literally alive with mutton birds and sardines. A Maori boy named George Waereß was charged at Napier with having wilfully set fire to Te Ante College. Detective Butler said the accused had confessed to him that he set alight to the school, as his cousin had left the school and his teacher had thrashed him unmercifully. There was absolutely no truth in the boy's statement concerning the thrashings. The accused, who reserved his defence, pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the next sittings of the Supreme Court in Napier for trial. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £IOO each and accused himself for £IOO. A London correspondent, writing under date March 4, on the subject of influenza, forwards a very simple and cheap remedy:—"The present wave is not so severe as the one last November, but it is sufficiently acute to seriously impair one's ordinary work-a-day life. There seems to be only one real remedy, namely, to gargle once, or oftener, a day either with salt or permanganate of potash (which must be very weak, just sufficient to tinge the water) with an added pinch of salt. The nostrils may also be douched. I could name two of the best London public schools where this procedure has been insisted on, and each has escaped without a single ease." Land buyers who wish to secure a farm on easy terms should read W. H. and A. McGarry'g advertisement on page ont.