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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 2 July 1906, Page 5

A new law, forbidding the sale of absinthe, has just' been passed by the Belgian Under its provisions the manufacture, transport, storage and sale are forbidden under a penalty of from 26f to 500f, and imprisonment of from one week to six months.

A gang of fourteen meu struok at Taihape on Wednesday, says the Manawatu Standard. It appears that these men have been working on the ballast train and have no grisranue as to wages, fcut only as to the manner in whioh the metal is brought to them to unload. The men maintain that they are prevented from making a living wage.

It haa been proved by Mr A. Gadoo, of Mount Gambier, Victoria, who carried out experiments during the past dry season, that with similar land aud 4 seed, potatoes that are planted east and west in rows give a muoh better yield than those planted north and south. His theory is that the aim about midday in a dry season strikes between the rows running north aud south, Bnd takes more moisture from the soil than betweon the east and west rowa, as the;) latter portion of the field is proteoted by the shade of the stalks.

There is a strong and general feeling in the Wbangarei district, says a correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, that the Government should purchase the Kamo Springs Sanatorium, which the own&rs are willing' to sell at cost price, in order that the hygienic properties of these bathsand water may bo made more widely known than is possible under private oontrol. For this end the Chamber of Uommeroehas appointed a deputation to wait on the Minister of Lands in Wellington to urge this course, and it is hoped the recommendations will result in the State securing at an early date this prospectively very valuable properly.