The Waipa County Council invite tenders for several road contracts. Five hundred anil eighty-seven differ ent languages are spoken in Europe. Mr \V. J. Hunter advertises his next Hamilton and Te Awanaitu .-ales fot Thursday, .'Bst December, and .Saturday, '2nd January, respectively. Jabez Balfour and Wells of Monte Carlo notoriety arc both at Portland. Balfour, who has " lost all his fat,' : is kept at hard work in the fpr«rries, having teen certified lit for first-class hard labour. He is downcast. Wells is cheered by King allowed to play the organ English statistics show t'rat the death rate from consumption is most alarmingly high. In the general average of the population about IS out of every 100 deaths are due to consumption, but among telegraphists the ratio is 10 out of every 100, and a good deal more than half of them die from some disease of the respiratory crgans. What there is about the occupation that favours the development of pulmonary complaints dues not appear,
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Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 71, 19 December 1896, Page 2
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