! Mr Chamberlain Las a strong faith in, himself,, rigiit or wrong. Ib is precisely because he seeks to infuse into the Brinish Empire something of this buoyant spirit of progress, this unconquerable confidence in itself, that we hold a strong belief in the ultimate triumph of his policy aud t3i© successful issue of the immense undertaking' to wMch he has set his hand. — " Morning Advertiser." When a balloon passes over a forest it descends and ballast must be thrown out to keep it up. This is explained by Professor Mouillefert, of the French National Agricultural College of Grignon, as being due to the existence above every forest of a prism of cool, moist air, produced by the abundant transpiration of the trees, and extending to a height of from. 3000 to 5000 j feet above the treetops. 1 There are seventeen metals which are more valuable than gold,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7802, 5 September 1903, Page 7
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