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AXL GIYB HIK tee rqab. •?• ?■**•*; «•* • *%«« :»*«*► Mn tlsa city'* etreete on the way t* A iie, mt it faecina tM all. And every dstw add every motoiuian, every mea feaadJfcaw anything, oa, wheal* give* tfe* fireman the right of way and ha deee «o spontaneously and giedly, earn the Stew York gun. And oft&a many drivers hold «p all et once to give the driver of the ire engine hik choice of ways, cut fee would where two street* eroes, «*„ they do this before they ««e the **- gine at all. But they know it's eoouag and they hear He whtotl*. Here ww an engine coming along a cross street to Broadway, whittle a calling. At the first note of H ev*ay motorman or driver who ehaaeed a* tie moment to be near the junction erf Broadway end this street, at-oppefi short, leaving the central space «»««- cupied, and leaving clear chßSaaoki away from it in every direction, None of tbeee driver* eoold fasew which way the fire driver wovMmet to turn when he got to the eevafr, am they all stopped, to give Mm a free road in whichever way he wanted to go and when he had warvrf fsae daehing round the corner they #ll started up again on their eevers* wssre. But eo far es they eoeld they fcgtgNel the whole earth to Mm, A taMWMfeai VIM »«*« Be A4ef» e* ev! Sawet fiwwi ea ttMfe &• flsilitery saefcor-Msytgea kevw e> randy prove* themselves to 'lst' at value 1b cttmtlng, it fc probable than in nearly every eiviliced eonirtay 4k — will be largely need fee leisure Be warfare. Why, if the feet land cm ! prove eo useful, should net Ae aaey adopt the eame methods? A bee*, et feet long, with two 15-horss power engine*, built very light, to carry, say, four perrons and to be capable ef eeaI slderable speed, would be a meet «**» j ful addition to a battleship ef a deee, •aye the London Star. 'The'eri&asry torpedo boat it too loag and draw* tee much water for scouting near shore ey to shallow water, but a launeh might be made to draw lese than three feet of water, and yet have a speed of vj» Warde of 30 knots. There woald be ne funnel* er smoke to attract, the notice of the enemy, and with underwater exhaust the boat might be made e> moet silent. If built low in the wades, •or with the power of ■emi-submersta*, it would be difficult to hit. ?rofcebly ««*& a craft would be more aectol iba® anything yet invented la t&e wssf o& ft eeosii for sea purpoeeav MOUNTAIN PEAK MAT FALL v STktr*»t«otna HonMata W»p tatoeato*. Although it has been raaaered throughout the Alpine region foe some time that the Artels— the great mountain peak which rears itself Mirlk stbove the famous Gemmi paaa—was m a more or less shaky condition, no one expected to hear that there woe »ny danger of ite tailing.- Now, howe\ er, It is definitely «t«ted that the Altels fs on the point of fitting in twe ae* ftnay come thundering down eiaoet any time, says a report from N'«aohafel, Switzerland. Carnage enough will be done it ift* famous peak does fall in any ease, \mi it is to be hoped that the erasli wili some before the next tourist see "*& begins, for ithe Oemjni,' above nbVh the Altels towers, is used to a greater •extent than any other Alpine pass. The inhabitant of the region can iniagine what will be the result if the Altels should eome crashing (m. hariug experienesd such an eetftt>'r«Hce on a smaller scale whes gfaeiers from this particular peak hafct de«eended upon then. The last eve foil i% September, IMS, ami wtef yeassAets were killed. A CHICAGO "QUICK HICS." 1$ Taatt (Mir «• B««ek »at fifes «&*- eaoraasis Mart Have Beesk "Owiii M Wbwre can w* get » f visit femb?" asked one of the official stenographers of the National Cirio'Federation who •came on from Chicago to report the proceedings of the ex*otrt!v»'6omml»--tee of the indnstrial depertiaeftt ef that oTVanisatioJK reports tfc* New Tork Times. Before the roporter to vUb the question wm addreerefi <wmld fell tt the nelghboriaiff "besfi«BA* r '>laees which met ait idse of a *s«feti'tanefi.'' - the Chicago stenographer asked bew far it was to -— % meatiofliflf a pfaee where a New Yorker would riot go traless he had several dollars to spare fer ' luncheon and a couple'of hours fee devote to gustatory delfghtei s-ai The stenographffri an one of the best dowatows resttarants. "We had a good, quick vsM one of the stenographers en tkeir re* turn. "And it only took uean heor." "Do yon call that a 'quiek lunch' ta Chicago?" asked the reporter. "A-ay-i thing over 15 minutee w*saUa dkmar i in New York." A TAlnabls Dta««reeT< A hitherto unknown portrait o< Martin Luther, painted by Lao** ' Cranach, the celebrated artiet a»4 burgomaster of Wittenberg, has been uncovered in the town church ef Wittenberg. It is pronounced t* be tfce best portrait ot Martin Luther in «•> ietenoe* *«.: .*. • DaRISIAN HAIR RBITORM. 17 An Pfemateffiva'ftir, baldness aad Oroy Hairs j ' Rnftamd abundftofc, mlb, . sad glofey - -Is W. Hak* drseurs; gaisara,' " ~w*d - BtaMAfcasjawt Asset. AleasßdHg '■-''■

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 441, 29 September 1904, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
862

Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 441, 29 September 1904, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 441, 29 September 1904, Page 3

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