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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1900, 7 November 1913, Page 3

After a lapse of, eight months (ho works of the British 'Australian Oil Company at Murrurundi and Newcastle (New South Wales) "are to lie reopened. A new company has been registered in London, frith a capital of .£300,000, and it is proposed to recommence at once tho manufacture of crude and refined oils, milphate of ammonia, candles, and ail products or by-products of coal, shale, oil. and petroleum. It is expected that the company will require the'services of between 500 and 600 men. The company hns large, np-to-dato works at Newcastle for the treatmcnt of the shale sent them from Murrnrundi, where an extensive area o£ shalebearing land has been secured.

Lecturing at the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition, in London, Mr. George Lumley said that it was a widespread practice in the schools of Switzerland for parties of boys to go out in ehnrge of a master and learn their geography and geo--logy by actual object-lessons. When such parties camo up a scene especially wild and romantic, it was their custom to sing appropriate part-songs. During a Tecent tour in Eastern Switzerland ho was startled by hearing such singing on one of the remoto passes, aud found a paity of forty or fifty boys thus engaged.

The death at the age of 00 yoai's of Mrs, Balfour, of Cliftori, has severed a link with tho past of exceptional infceFWt. Mrs. Balfour was the last surviving friend of the famous Dr. Routh, president of Magdalen College. Oxford, *?lw died iJ) his ia. ISSiu -