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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12718, 13 August 1919, Page 6

Tho passenger carnages on the two trains originating in Dunedin that are still railed expresses, though they are not now express in any sense excepting that of going through, a,re now reduced to three on each per day (says the Dunodiu“ Evening Star.”’) ft was a job on }< rid ay morning to pack into three northward carriages all the passengers that secured permits. Wliat made the pnvs was the appearance of the Digger Pierrots, W- in number, with authorisations to tr-vcl to Timnru. Nearly all the passengers on that train were going through to Timarn. Quite a. fair proportion. came up from tho south last night, with permits that were issued at Gore or Invercargill. These permits are, of course, quite valid, and the holders do not need to be reques tinned at Dunedin as to the reasons for travelling. It is satisfactory to be told that the ordinary racegoers who now have the Grand .National in mind are not as a body trying to beat Mr M'CVaeken at the permit office with tales about smk aunts and mothers in extremis. Usually at this time of year one hears of a groat rush of such urgent calls to Christchurch: This .year-; the “ distressed relatives' 7 are mostly going up by motor or steamer. On the little island of Kos, off the coast of Asia .Minor, is one of the moat famous trees in the world. Under its branches tradition says that St Luke and St Paul rested, ft is a. huge tree, eighteen yards in circumference and over two xiiousand years old. It i s surrounded by a raised platform, breast high, which has been built to support the trunk of the tree after it had become hollow and weak from ago. The lower brunches are still flourishing, and have been supported by pieces ol antique columns, over, the, upper ends of which the branches have grown like caps in consequence of the pressure of their own weigh t. Close by the tree is a solid marble seat, which is believed to have been tho chair of the famous Greek doctor, Hippocrates, the “father of medicine.” He taught his pupils from that scat, and as he was born over four buufired years before Christ, it gives " , 'a of the great age of the tree.