Tho Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, when it took over certain village ground at Brnneaster, lo play lipon, agreed to pay to tho villagers four per cent, of its gross income for the right. This year tho village receives r l'G7, working out at ss. 6d. for each householder, a small amount being earned forward as balance in hand.
A remarkable discovery was made bv a chimney sweeper at j'fofl'at while engaged removing an obstruction in a chimney caused by a jackdaw's nest. Two hundred and fifty wooden clothes pins were removed from the chimney, Jls being new ones, and all of them had been utilised for the purpose of nest building.
Messrs. Swan, nunter, and Wighnm Jlichardson, of Newcastle, have been given a contract for a new Cunarder, the Francon ia, which will represent an entirely new type of combined passenger and cargo'express steamer. It will lie 18.(100 tons, and will be equipped with turbine engines that are expected to give'her a remarkable speed.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 857, 1 July 1910, Page 7
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