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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13869, 27 November 1913, Page 2

In Norway every woman over 25 who earns at least £16* 10s per annum in the country, or £22 in town, has a vote.

A stone .•axe-head has been found at Llandilo, which is said to be some sis or seven thousand years old. As thov ?tonc is- not of any local Kind, the axe is supposed to have been the property of a peripatetic carpenter of that distant period. ,

Of Australia's total public debt of about £270,000,000, over £150,000,000 has been spent in. the construction of railways which are owned by the people, o.ud which, - while more .than' paying interest on the entire cost, are rendering valuable" services in helping to open: up Australia's millions of aci-es of fertile lauds.