Page 2 Advertisements Column 3

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9521, 20 April 1909, Page 2

The first shop for th« sale of airships has been opened in New York, the minimum charge for airships being £20,000 each. Few of the world's great cities, have not faced, ab one time or another, total destruction. Take Rome, for instance. She has been swept by pestilence no fewer than ten times. She Has been twice burned, and six times driven to submission by starvation. Perhaps it is on account of -her great vitality that she is called the Eternal City. Paris has gone through eight sieges, ten famines, two plagues, and one fire, which devastated it. Constantinople , has been burned out nine times, and has suffered from four plagues and five ! sieges. In addition, she has been ruled by monarchs who were worse than a plague. Yet Constantinople still flour--1 whes.' London hasb^n decimated five 1 times by plagues, in 'addition to visita- • tions or typhus, cholera, and othei epidemics. She has been burhe/i more 1 or less severely several timea.