Untitled

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1847, 31 July 1907, Page 17

....... A 150 li.p. steam car holds the record for the one mile, accomplishing the distance in 28 seconds, or at the rate of over 120 miles an hour, last year in Florida. Mr BirrelFe distinction (says the Saturday “Review”) lies in being “the cultured representative of mild agnosticism of nonconformity.” Although a very large addition to the berthing accommodation of the port of Wellington is now under construction in the shape of the King's Wharf, which is to cost over <£70,000, it is understood that the Board will soon take into consideration the construction of another wharf of the same kind. . The new wharf will be north again of the King s. An extraordinary instance of the affecti4 o?a horse forats old home has ocmiiW at Turvey. A farmer sold a W e he had owned for several years to another 6 farmer from Harwlope, twelve a.wav. whither it was taken ana Saced a held for the night It was Found next morning grassing in its old field at Turvey*