Napier branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has passed a resolution protesting against the suggested alteration in the Industrial Conciliation and Aibitration Act which relates to railway men. An American aerop.anist recently fell 3,500 feet in his airship with no more serious results than a severe bruising. In the west cloister of Westminster Abbey is a gravestone to John Broughton, once champion prizefighter of England. A coach that has been running for twenty four years between Gisborne and Ormond has been pensioned off. It has travelled in the time mentioned 179,129 miles. The latest achievement of the clockmaker's art is a clock which has no pendulum, and which is guaranteed to run at least 1000 days without intermediate winding. Two thousand movable kitchens have been ordered for the Austrian Army. Each of these is a four-wheeled vehicle, weighing about half a ton, thoroughly equipped for cooking in the field.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 700, 3 November 1909, Page 6
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