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Mataura Ensign, 27 January 1912, Page 5

The Midsummer Sale at Mac Gibbon's, the Main Street's Busy Corner, is now on. We have many excellent offerings for you at little prices. A little girl patient in a Berlin hospital, wno had an eyelid torn off in an accident, lias bad it successfully sewn Needles were first made in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Private dwelling-houses in Great Britain reach the total of 7j millions. There are forty-three miles of bookshelves in the British Museum Library. "Khedive" is the title given to the Viceroy of Egypt; it means king, or lord. Of the passenger tr.affic in London streets 92 per cent, of the vehicles are motor drawn. A New Plymouth telegram states that Mr W. Armstrong, Commissioner of Crown Lands, died yesterday morning as the result of a paralytic*stroke a few days ago.