POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH BUSINESS.
WELLINGTON, December 31. The Christmas business at the principal ielegraph and post offices for the Dominion ?hows a considerable increase on last year — £22,398 received for stamps against £19,866, and 53,315 bags "mails handled against 46,707. Forwarded telegrams show an increase of over 5000, and messages received of nearly 6000 . Telegrams transmitted numbered 146,444, as against 134,057.
Mosaio floors, laid with small pieces of different coloured stones in regular patj terns, were known to the Egyptians 2300 B.C. In Babylon floors of this kind dated from 1100 B.C. They were common io the Athenian and. Rom«h housefti
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Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 22
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