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North Otago Times, 22 May 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

SPEED OF THE HARE FOUKD DY A MOTOR AFI'UA.VCE.

An ardent motorist, who travels much by night in the rural districts where hares arc plentiful, has recently ascertained by n speedometer how fast n hare can run. On a flat road the hare can make from fourteen to sixteen miles per hour. Down hill, however, ho cannot make more than twelve and a half miles per hour. When a hare finds himself swlnVnJv in front of a speeding mo'or he gets frightened by the lights, that his thinking apparatus becomes pnrnlvsed.. Instead of jumping asi/le and to safety, he rims ahenil and generally continues In run until the motor stops.

The Shah of Persia has taken extraordinary precautions to safeguard his wonderful collection of jewels, estimated [p be worth £17,000000. Some travellers at Teheran j were indiscreet enough to talk openly about tho wonderful treasures hidden in the Shah's vaults. Their conversation was reported to the Shah, who was seized with the notion that there was a plot on to rob him of the jewels. Immediately b" had deeper and even more secure vaults dug. The iron doors of the passages leading to the vaults have ingenious electrical contrivances' which, when set, not only will send an alarm to the palace guard, but will discharge explosives enough to deslrny an army of robbers. Night and day n score of picked men guard the jewel vaults—ruthless- mountaineers, who await only the order to kill.

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