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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 314, 29 September 1908, Page 8

Dr. A. J. Evans, in a lecture on tho recent excavations in Creto to the Cambridge Extension students, said tho labours of tho investigators resulted in the conclusion that Creto was tho true cradlo of European civilisation. At Minos they found strata to tho depth of about 25ft., carrying them through rolics of forms of civilisation which took them back in successivc stages to an antiquity of at least 12,000 years. Tho lecturer showed by slides tho results of his excavations in the Minonian palaces of a period about 1600 years before the Christian era. A groat feature, he said, was the perfection of the domestic architecture. A knowledgo of sanitation was shown equal to tho best of modern ideas. Mr. William Sinclair, Nathan's Buildings, advertises properties for exchange and sale. Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald, Ltd., insert particulars in our advertising columns of an important auction sale of Irish linens, damasks, etc., in their rooms, on Wednesday and Thursday noxt, commencing at 11 o'clock cach dny. Tho w'nolo of tho shipment is now on viow, and a special gaslight display - will be given this overling from 7 till 9 o'clock. Attention is olsowbere drawn to "Fabricona," tho new and artistic woven wall covering, for which Messrs. R. Martin and Co., Ltd., are Wellington agents. Entries closo on October 17 for tho Carterton Show, to bo hold on October US and 29.