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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17942, 22 May 1920, Page 7

A vehicle belonging to the Diggers' Supply Company oolhded with a tramcar yesterday opposite the Oval. The oar struck the vehicle a alanting blow, and both shafts were snapped clean off. No one was hurt, and the horse also escaped uninjured. The glass in tho front of the tramcar, however, was badly smashed, in addition to other damage. The solar system, in its raco to some such goal in space as the star Vega, according to Herschel, does 11 miles in a second, and according to later authorities from 12 to 15. It was some time in the '60s of last ocntury that red ink was first made. The only kind of red ink before known was made of cochineal dissolved in powerful solvents, and its colouring was destroyed when used with a steel pen A gold pen or a quill was necessary. But with the new ink a steel pen sufficed.