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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 14

So large is the orange crop in the East London district of * Capo Colony that the fruit lias been selling in the market at 100 for a penny. Several Welsh tin-plato makers propose forming a cbmpanv in order to manufacture their ■'own steel; ' The object of the move is to prevent the "dumping" of cheap German and American steol bars. Two letters posted at Walton-on-thc-Naze on May 27, 190'lj only reachod their destination on September 17, 1907. Tho delay was occasioned by the letters falling between the wood and, .zinc lining of the lottcr.box, which had become separated by the heat of the sun. A committee of ladies at Vryburg, British Bechuanailand, "publishes periodically a list of all the bachelors and eligible young women in the town, and correspondence, which is treated, confidentially, from those who desire husbands or wives. Visitors to the London parks next spring will have tho opportunity of seeing in lull bloom tho onormous number of 06,000 hyacinths,'lso,ooo. tulips, 133,000 narcissus and daffodils, 116,000 crocuses, and 101,000 liliums, snowdrops, etc., which Messrs. James Carter and Co., of High Holborn, have been commanded by his Majesty's First Commissioner of Works to supply. Russia and. Japan haro agreed to protect China. Whon is tho carving to begin?— "■American," New 'Yorki