SWEDEN AND NORWAY
CHBISTIANIA, August 15. Only 1 per 200 Norwegian voters wav , against separation. Eighty per cent, j f I the electors voted. ! August 17 The final result of the Norwegian rei'er- : endum -shows that 368.200 voted in favoui of the dissolution of the union with Sweden, and 184 against. Mr O. E. Eastman, an American archi* tect. has patented plans for building house* of glass. If his idea is adopted dwellings, banks, and hotels will have walls entirelj of opalescent wire glass, and windows will be abolished. A man driving a dray, and calmly smoking a pipe whilst seated on top of 50 kegs of blasting powder, attracted the attention of the road overseer, says the Napier Telegraph, who immediately stopped the vehicle and ordered him to stop smoking.
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Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 23
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