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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 June 1907, Page 4

Tho memorial to Sir Hector Macdonald, at Dingwall ,opened a- few days ago, takes the form of a tower 100£t high.

A Gorman patent covers the employment of egg shells as gas mantles. The two ends of the shell having been removed, it is to be supported by a gas-burn-er, so that it may be heated to incandescence from the inside.

Mtf Frederick Bowker, of Lankhills, Winchester, who was solicitor for the Tichborne family in the famous case, died on April 7th, at the age of 92. It was mainly through Mr Bowker's perseverance that the discovery was. made of the claimant's identity with Orton, the Wapping butcher.

In Central Arizona there exists a remarkable hill called the Coon Mountain. Rising only 150 ft from the surrounding sandy plain, its interior consists of a circular crater three-quarters of a mile in diameter and 500 ft deep. Scattered around the hill aro blocks of sandstone which diminish in size as the distance from the crater increases, while close in round the rim are many lumps of metallic iron containing microscopic diamonds. Recent research has led to the suposition that the crater was formed by the impact of a large iron meteorite, perhaps nearly a third of a mile in diameter, large enough to be called a minor planet, and moving probably at the speed of about eight miles a 6econd. The crater is at present being actively bored by enterprising Americans for meteoric iron.