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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 7

When a Chinaman desire's to marry, his'parents intimate that fact to the professional "match-maker," who thereupon runs through the list of her visiting acquaintances, and selects one whom Bhe considers a fitting bride for tho young man. Tho hottest region on earth is on the south-western coast of Persia, where Persia borders the gulf of tho same name. For 40 consecutive days in the months of July and August, the thermometer lias been known not to fall lower than 100 degrees jiiglit or day. IS. Phillips Oppenheim has dramatised his book, "The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton," and it is to bo staged in Englaud by James Welsh. The iusano idea of tho local inhabitant that nothing any good can be made in Maoriland got another rudo bump tho other day. ■ For years the Andersons, who run a big engineering woi;ks and foundry at Christchurch (M.L.), have.been turning out a 2J h-.p. oil engine for uso by dairy farmers and tho man on tho soil generally. It was ahead of anything imported, tho price was right, and it well deserved support, but it was badly handicapped becauso it hadn't been dragged from a distance. About a year ago tho makers sent one of their engines to tho Panama Exposition, and now tho glad nous comes through that, against the whole world and a lot of twang, tho little contraption bagged the gold medal," -Jktaot from Sidney, i'BuUftia,"