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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12501, 30 March 1909, Page 4

r j ''-' Feware aware that Corea piuceded (, Europe in inventing three things / which have had a vast influence upon 5 the world. Printing with ; movable <6 types originated in Corea in. IdiM, i-to _ years before the invention of the art 8 in Europe. "The two other inventions I in. which the Coreans seem to have 1 anticipated Europe were -the mortar i and the ironclad, both used with cont-. siderable . effect during the Japanese--1 Coreaaiwar of 1592-98. News 'has reached Trowbridge that three triplets bom in that town—Mr Aaron Albert White, Mr Moses Henry J White and Mrs Miraiam . Lenorah Lewis, now in Australia— haye just .':• celebrated their, sixtieth birthday. . ; The natives of Rotorua are facili- '■'■■- tating'Nature in the formation of new terraces in a remarkable manner, so - Mr Townley remarked to a reporter w" in Gisborne. After the eruption it r- was confidently asserted, he said, i- that the terraces would be re-formed, il and it was actually taking place._ The • renewed activity of the Waikari geyser-" had enabled this to be effected.- --' By placing sacks of sand along the. , desired design, an artificial terrace " was built up: The water from the sub- , teiranean blow-hole was then-jdi verted J 'over the -work, and in a few-weeks, was complete, the ap- ■ .pearahces of ther terraces being somewhat similar to those destroyed. The reconstructed, terraces will, Mr Town--6 ley- concluded, form a most interest-rf-'-irig feature of the wonderland sights.