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Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11994, 22 July 1907, Page 4

1 I ' ' It is almost practicable at the j present moment to speak across the ! English Channel by wireless tele- ' phony, and within the bounds of possibility that at some time we r may telephone without wires to a 1 ship in mid-Atlantic. "— Professor J. A. Fleming, F.R.S., at the Royal Institution (London). A gigantic work is going on ln Now > South Wales in the damming of rivers. One dam is to be constructed > which would store twice as niuch 3 water as the famed Assouan dam, and another one was proposed which >' would provide a resevoir for three times the quantity of the first. It is the intention of the Victorian State Cabinet to favor the introduction of legislation that will - reduce the standard size of the bag g used for carrying wheat to a capacity •*. c of 2001 bof wheat. The widow of Mr A. W. Black, i M..P., killed in the railway disaster 0 at Elliot Junction, is suing the 1 Nortb British and Caledonian Rails way Companies for £20,000 as comi pensation After partaking of mussels gathered in Calais harbor, twenty-three persons became ill, and three of - them died. * While on a visit to Basutoland, " the Bishop of Bloemfonteio, discard- " ed his episcopal dress for a khaki suit, and his martial appearance 9 drew from a native whom he greeted 3 the unexpected reply: "Good-day, 3 Tommy" Someone has turned out Belgian hares in the Argentine, where they already threaten to become a plague I equalling that of the rabbit in A party recently killed ' 1000 in one^jday. The Golden City, a Hull trawler, 3 realised the record figures of £1279 one day this season for her catch, . which was composed wholly of plaice. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, ls 6d and 2s 6d.

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