The iridescent firo in tho opal Is dui to tho water in tho gem, opals being simply a minglina of silica (flint) and water.
'An unexpectedly largo capture was made Jit Auckland by Detective Gourley and Constable M'Hugh during the week-end (eays the New Zealand Herald). A complaint respecting the loss of a magneto ignition instrument, valued at £7 10s, and taken ifrom a workshop in Northcote, was made to the police. Pursuing investigations, the feffioers recovered electrical fittings, num- , .jbeing over 150, and valued roughly at £IOO. J
The articles included lamp pendants, switches, fuses, globes, torches, pushes, brass plugs, lamp shades, coils of wire, copper cable, etc. Two young men were apprehended, and wero each formally charged, before Mr A. H. Gcntil, J.P., with stealing the magneto instrument. Dartmoor conviot prison was originally , built to receive prisoners of war during our struggles with Napoleon.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3234, 8 March 1916, Page 59
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