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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 1271, 12 February 1910, Page 4

There is a curious persistence, says the "Pioneer," in the reports from Afghanistan that the Russians have completed their surveys for a bridge over the Middle Oxus. It is now even asserted that bridging materials are being collected at Samarkand, and that work will be begun next summer, the crossing place being at Kilif Ferry, north of Akcha, in Afghan Turkestan. ANOTHER GOLD MEDAL FOR THOMSON AND CO. Cable advice has been received from the High Commissioner in. London to the effect that Thomson' and Co., of Dunedin, have been awarded a Golc Medal for Carbonated Waters and Cordials at the Imperial International Exhibition, London. As Thomson and Co.'s exhibit left Djinedih early in 1907, it not only speaks well for the purity and keeping qualities of the goods, but it goes to show their all-round superiority in successfully competing against goods which are freshly manufactured and bottled on the spot. " Thomson's List of Honours is now 20 (Gold Medals and 32 First Clas* Certificates— a record unapproachable in 1 Australasia. If you wish to avoid polluting your stopacb. with cheap, chemically-pi»-pared decoctions, insist every time on being served with THOMSON'S, THE BEST IN THE WORLD.