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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 697, 23 December 1909, Page 8

■ During the military manoeuvres which took plan*}- recently between^helford: and' Lord's Bridge, near• Cambridge,, a big blaze broke out at : tho rUlage ofr-Hauston. ,One'-of ing forces'utilised ' .train-,.0f. the Cambridge ■ University Qfficers"'.Trairiing. Corps, comprising 'several wagons' drawn'" by a traction "engine. .Just affer.it had passed through' the-village two serious fires.otcurred;. Efforts wcro made .by the'villagers'. tcr check '■■ the- advance of,'the flames, and 'Cambridge-' Fire brigade went to'their assistance, but: the Leather' Gaiters, . a', trablic-hquse. occupied ■by : : Mrs.'Sharp,- was burnt 'out,- and 'much 'property :6ir the farm of Mr. January'.was' , , destroyed, in'-, eluding' six corn and : hay; stacks, t\ro ' barns and ! their. , contents, and some, outbuildings,'in' which soino calves - and ;"jigs were burned to death. ',-.' -••■, ■':■■• . . -;-. : ".•.■• '-'.'i .'■■■■;■■ . ■ ■•'■ The eel has two separate hearts. Ono beats CO, the other 160,°;' times' a minute.-. ..'.-.-■' ■ , Respecting . the.. fund. : of '£250,000 -which ■ is being raised by ; the Primitive Methodists in : England a part of tho centenary; celebra"tion of their Church, the KovJGX Armstrong reported recently that' promisos had been 'received: to' the amount of ~£185,000.' ■Of the total, sum it was - proposed, he' • said, to devote ,£IOO,OOO to various projects of denominational extension, especially homo and foreign missions.'■'■'•The romaining X 150.000 might: bo- applicd by tho- local cliurches to tho orectjon , of new premise?, manses,- and tho ''liquidation of trust liabilities. . >•;/ . ■ : . ; - : ''.■•: ■;'i i. Novhouso nails' your, atteiulou to li:s special fliyertltemcnt .in.' _to-4ay'e •. and: Fridajr'B fcsue, •