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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2236, 24 August 1914, Page 8

'• According to accounts from Ractilii, says, an exchange, a local resident suffering from chilblains, learning that methylated spirits formed a remedy, applied the liquid in the hope of allaying the pain ho was expononemg. Aftor the operation liad been performed ■ he drew up to the fire to. warm'his feet before retiring. His enjoyment was suddenly dissipated by tho spirit igniting. The fire was soon extinguished, but the victim suffered a good deal of t pain as a result of his unusual experience. /.-•-. 'When nations aro at war it is unwise for unauthorised pwsous- to poke around tho naval quarters, oven if the object is merely one of curiosity. An amateur photographer, who thought it would bo nice to take a few pictures of the submarines tethered to Garden Island (Sydney), found tho truth of this last Thursday \yeok. Garden Island naval depot is picketed, and every care is taken to prevent people without authority from even approaching the shore. On Thursday afternoon two men hired a rowing boat and pulled out towards the island. When at a nico distanco from tlio submarines they produced a camera, and commenced the Imsiness of the afternoon. They- had hardly got the pro])er focus when a powerful mo-tor-boat, in which were several armed bluejackets, shot out from the island. Running alongside tho rowing boat the naval men. secured tho names and addresses of tho photographers, confiscating tho camera,'and escorted tho disappointed occupants of the rowing boat back to the mainland.

A Gisbonio resident has invented what iie believes to be an improved big gun shell, which ho proposes to submit to tho military authorities. Tho inventor, who claims that the new. type ..of shell will afford big guns an ndditional range of porno miles, stafes that tho shell is dosigned to give renewed forco when tho ordinary momentum of tho projeotilo is about to be spent. So impressed have a number of other residents been with the idea that funds aro being raised to enable the inventor to proceed to Wellington, where it is intended to havo patterns made and submitted to tho Defence authorities.

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