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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 652, 2 December 1908, Page 6

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After having been stationed at Dover Bince 187{>£t*e Royal Garrison Artillery Dep'uo i-ssi. been removed to Newhaven. Guy two companies remain at Dover to man the whole of the guns in tha garrison. In celebration of the centenary of Evangelists Torricelli, the inventor of the barometer, a collossal barometer 15 yards high and nearly a yard in .width has been constructed by Father Alfani, the director of the Florence Observatory. A new form of gambling in the street was described at the Westminster Police Oourt. It was stated that boys took up their position on a street refuge, and made bets as to whether ttie numbers of approaching cabs were, odd or even. Tasmania discovered November 24, 1642. A meeting of Government supporters at Gore last week passed a resolution expressing regret at Mr M'Nab'a defeat, and hoping that he will reenter politico, ab the Dominion can ill spare a man of his ability and integrity. The Wellington Provincial Industrial Association last week presented the Hon. Hall-Jones with a gold model of a locomotive, in recognition of his services to the Dominion as Minister of Kailway6. A church in the village of Also* hamer, in Hungary, which stood on a mortgaged piece of land, was bought by a priest for Is 6d. The total wages bill for a fortnight of the Ashington colliery, near Morpeth (England), said to be the largest on earth, is £17,000. Dumbarton Oastle is to be transferred from the War Departmeut to the control of the Works Departneot, which means its abandonment as a fortress, and it will now become merely a place of historical interest.