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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 2

Tho London "Gazette" contained a notification of tho creation of a new rank of warrant officer in. tho Koyal Marines, to be known as gunnory ser-geant-major, -with tho status and "training so for as possiblo assimilated to that of gunner in 'tho navy. Moro than a dozen birds, including an owl, wrens, thrushes, and chaffinches, probably blown out to sen by n gale,' alighted exhausted on tho deck of tho steamer Caledonia, bound from Liverpool to Boston. All except two chaffinches died immediately. An old man-seryantwho had-been found by his master to bo deficient* in his accounts, blamed the butcher for tampering with bis book. The gentleman of the house remonstrated ' by faying—"But, Tom, figures,don't, lie." "No," answered the old man, "but liars often figeer." 1