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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3625, 23 August 1901, Page 3

An entire town, has recently .been discovered in the dominions of the Czar of the existence of which no one seems to have had any idea. Deep in: the forests of the Ural lies a flourishing city, the inhabitants of which speak a curious language of. their own, and seem to form a sort of ideal commonwealth, in which taxes and tax-gatherers, among other . troublesome things, are unheard of. ' The battleship Prince George, of the Channel squadron, recently accomplished a remarkable feat while coaling at ; Portsmouth. The ship had to get 1200 tons into her bunkers. This she did at the average intake of 228 tons per hour. By this remarkably smart performance the coaling record for the British navy passes to the Prince George. It was previously he'd by the Mars, with an average of 203 tons an hour.

Richard Robinson and Harry Poole, the two Walworth citizens who were accused of stealing the case of cigars intended for the needs of the Duke of York and party whilst on tour, but which after much futile travelling got lost on the Brighton railway, were arraigned at Clerkenwell Court the other day. Poole was acquitted, but Robinson got 15 months' hard labour. He deserved his punishment, if only for the asininity of his procedure. Not only did he sell the cigars in their original boxes, but he was fool enough to keep" the case as a rabbit hutch. On his premises were found also a quantity. of corsets, liquors, l other things, most of which were identifiable as part of packages of goods w4ch had disappeared from the depot the Duke's cigars vanished from. i