In this issue will bo found tho programme of the Waikato Jockey Club's race?, to bo run at Cambridge on 21>th December. Russian capital will attempt growing cotton on some of the more fertile accessions of land in Asia, so as to be as far as pos.-ible independent of foreign countries, Russia believes in caring for her own people against the world. Colonel OoiutAND, at London, England, gave a recaption to Thomas A. Edwon, whose body was not present, but whoso voice came from the phonograph he had sent over. Edison is said to have made a Hpeech, told stories and sung comical songs, At Ceylon the great reservoir, which covers seven square miles, has been repaired, and the valuable work of irrigation which it accomplished even as far back as the fifth century is again going on. The reservoir supplies towns and villages for fifty miles around.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2551, 15 November 1888, Page 2
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148Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2551, 15 November 1888, Page 2
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