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Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 88

For the first time a woman lias boon admitted to the professorial staff of a Gorman University This is Dr Johan Woker, •who is now a professor extraordinary at the University of Leipsig.

The year just closed has been ono of marked activity in the building trade at Napier. Permits were issued representing a value of £94.474, against £61,925 during the previous year.

able, which, having its “ intake ” from the warm Gulf Stream at the south, exerts a marker! influence on the temperature of Christiania, and it Ls not without reason that the dwellers therein boast that they enjoy the most mild and equitable climate of any city in Norway. The latitude of Christiania is just 60deg north —only about 6deg from the Arctic circle. A corresponding latitude in North America would just escape the southern point of Greenland, and cut off a goodsized slice from the lower part of Alaska. Local conditions and not latitude, therefore. must needs be responsible for Christiania’s delightid climate, though lying so far north Chat it falls within the z'one of the white summer nights BEAUTIFUL NIGHTS. One can never forget these tramcendently beautiful nights. It is neither dark ncr daylight, but a marvellous blending of those tints of sunrise and sunset that convert the heavens into a dome of* jewelled splendour surpassing in sottness of tint and tone the glow of the peail and the lambent light of topaz and amethyst. Under such a sky one experiences a sense of rest and quiet u hollj absent in the hot. black nights of the Southern climes. It is merely the filmy shadow of night that speaks of a soothing and tranquil peace—the memory of day resting like a benediction on the submissive and weary world.