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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 13

Two business men, both comparative newcomers to Oama L’ found a solution to a que - tion of identity that had been .puzzling them for some days past, their, mutual recognition proving to be a singular case of coincidence (says tlie “Times”). They met for the first time in Oamaru just 'prior to Christmas, and while there appeared to be a strange familiarity, it remained for their next meeting 'to solve the problem. One question led to another, until it was discovered thev had occupied adjoining btinl-s nt No. 1 Convalescent Hospital at Wimercaux (France), the recogrntion being accompanied by the heartiest greetings'? This strange part of the storv is' that one of the men concerned was' the oniv “Digger” in the hospital at that time (February, 1918), and it was through this fact that the other—a “Tommy” engineer who has since the war taken up his residence in NewZealand—was enabled to “place’ his wartime companion after nearly ten years.

In a butterfly’s eye, scientists stats’there arc 5000 different lenses and 50,000 nerves.