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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 36, 19 August 1899, Page 1

S. J. ADA MS, Of thb RAILWAY 'TIMBER, COAL, AND FIREWOOD YARD, Has been appointed SOLE AGENT for KAITANGATA CO.'S COAL, ; AND < ALLANDALE CO.'S COAL AND DRAIN PIPES, AND has on Sate Kaitangata Coal at Ss 3d per\ sack, or 25s pfer ton. I For A-llandale Coal at' Is 9d per f Cash. sack, or 20s perttm. v , Westport Ge.'s Famous Coalbrookdale »nd Newcastle Coal at Shippers' RatesSEAONED TIMBER of every description at Lowest Town - Prices. Timber Direct from Southland Mills at Invercargill Rates. Large Stock of Seasoned Firewood, Fencing material,- Hurdles, -Cement, Roofing Iron, Ridgecap Nails &c. Doors and Sashes all sizes All Orders will receive Personal -Supervision, and if Customers desire, j&ooda can be' delivered in the Back Country 'at the Shortest 1 Notide. , OFFICE : QUEEN STREET WAIMATE. >

A. Walkpr, CARPENTER and BUILDER FLANS, Specifications and Estima+es on Application. Address— Main North Road, Waimate.

I ALEXR. PHILIP, ' SANITARY UNDERTAKER. ALL kinds of POLISHED and COVERED GOFFINSmade on , the Most Modern Principles. REASONABLE CHARGES. A Choice, Assortment of Wreaths, Shades, Tablets, Ac. ALBXR. PHILIP, BUILDER and CONTRACTOR. I)LA.NS and SPECIFICATIONS Prepared. Estimates Given, Sheawnan Street, Waimate.

The " lifting power v of a youth seventeen years old is 2801b, in his twentieth year this increases to 3201b, and in the thirtieth and thirty-first year it reaches its height, 3561b'. At toe end of the thirty-first year the strength begins . to decline, very slowly at iirst. By the fortieth ye#r it has decreased 81b, .and this diminution continues at a sligHtly increasing fate until the fiftieth ,year is reached/when jfche >figure is ,3801b, After this period the , strength -fails more and more rapidly until the weak< ness of ojd-age is reached- „;It>Js t jjot possible to give > statistics} of the. .decline of strength after, th»ififttetv;> year,as it varies- to a large extent in diluent