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  3. ADAMSTOWN COUNCIL.

    Adamstown Council met last night for the purpose of electing the Mayor. There were present: Alderman Gellately, Eaten, Rutherford, Angus, Robin, Powell, ...

    Article : 494 words
  4. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    It is not generally known that the light of the sun and moon exercises a deleterious effect on edge tools. Knives, drills, scythes, and sickles assume a blue ...

    Article : 70 words
  5. OUR NEW ZEALAND LETTER

    I have just finished a tour through the Maori country of Southern and Central Auckland, and have been very interested in nothing the conditions under which the ...

    Article : 424 words
  6. UNKNOWN NEW GUINEA.

    Further details of the adventures and hardships of the British expedition in Dutch New Guinea, which for months past has been engaged in an attempt to reach ...

    Article : 1,014 words
  7. SCHOOL CRICKETERS.

    The New Zealand school-teachers' cricket team have returned from New South Wales, delighted with their tour, and with the New South Wales people. As ...

    Article : 155 words
  8. FISH BY WIRELESS.

    Wireless telegraphy is being Introduced among German fishing vessels. The advantage of this system or communication is that it permits one vessel that is ...

    Article : 101 words
  9. HOLY LAND MASSACRE.

    Nearly the whole country east of the Jordan, inhabited for the greater part by nomadic tribes of roving Bedouins, revolted a few weeks ago against Turkish rule. ...

    Article : 825 words
  10. HELD OFF BY VAPOUR.

    It is impossible to throw a few drops of water on a red-hot stove. The water can never touch the stove at all. What is seen is a few drops rolling rapidly over ...

    Article : 220 words
  11. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    The flagship Powerful leaves Hobart for Sydney on February 11. A farmer at Bairnsdale, (Vic.) claims to have found a cure for potato blight. ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  12. THE LARGEST FLOATING DOCK.

    There has recently been completed by Messrs. Vickers, Sane and Maxim, London, a 22,000-ton floating dock for the use of the Brazilian Government, and more ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT HOUSE.

    After much delay and the unnecessary expenditure of many thousands of pounds on temporary premises, our Government is at last calling for designs for a new ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. HOTEL INVENTION.

    A new system of paging guests has been introduced in Chicago. Instead of having a boy go through the hotel calling the name of the one wanted, automatic ...

    Article : 87 words
  15. STOCKTON COUNCIL.

    The Stockton Council held a special meeting last night for the purpose of electing a new Mayor. Preliminarily the retiring Mayor, Alderman Griffiths, ...

    Article : 455 words
  16. DOUBLE MAIL-BAG APPARATUS.

    A new mail bag exchange system, for railway mail-vans, which has been given a test on the Illinois Central Railroad, is based on the use of pivotted arms. The ...

    Article : 187 words
  17. AUSTRALIAN STATESMEN.

    New Zealand has, during the past few weeks, been entertaining a plethora of Australian statesmen, and they all seem to have had a good time. Mr. Wade has ...

    Article : 406 words
  18. STARLIGHT IS EARTHLIGHT.

    Starlight does not fully account for the brightness of the moonless night sky, and a German astronomer concludes that it may be partly due to "carthlight"— ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. MOUSTACHE AND HEADACHES.

    Dr. Paul Klager, the famous Vienaese physician, has delivered a sensational lecture before the medical society. He says the growing fashion of shaving the ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. THE PLANETS.

    Professor Lowell, the well-known American astronomer during his recent lecture at the Royal Institution, explained some remarkable photographs ...

    Article : 400 words
  21. THE OIL INDUSTRY.

    One of the principal oil wells at New Plymouth commenced to run freely, without pumping, recently, and the flow of oil has continued ever since. The New ...

    Article : 463 words
  22. LOZENGES FOR LUNCH.

    The American girl's love tor sweets is the subject of an article in the current issue of the "Confectioners' Union." "Miss America begins eating sweets at ...

    Article : 556 words
  23. HAREM SKIRTS.

    The successor of the hobble skirt has arrived. A new form of divided skirt, to come into fashion in the spring, is to be launched into notoriety by the ...

    Article : 398 words
  24. BEEF TRUST.

    The American people, and especially housewives who are paying enormous prices for meat are studying with intense tense interest the suggestive figures ...

    Article : 331 words
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