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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 13

Baron von Eckhardstein,' of Berlin, one of the passengers on board tho Alaurelania, in her voyage to Now York, was successfully operated on for appendicitis when the linei; was in mid-ocean. Legally, a doctor has power to compel a vessel to stop for purposes of performing an operation. The panel recentl ydiscovered in a Cornisli mansion, and said formerlv to have belonged to.Hampton Court, being nrooably oneof the famous set of "Tho Story of the VII Deadly Synnes" which were purchnsed by Cardinal Wolsoy, was sold for .CIiGOO. About tho year' 18!G it changed hands at a sale in Cornwall for less than JE2. Among rare birds exhibited at the show of tho London Cage-bird Association were a Dartford warbier and a two-barreil crossbill, tho last-named being the only British-caught specimen in captivitv. "Freaks" included a black bullfinch, "a •yellow sparrow, and a white blackbird.