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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 6

Rather an interesting coincidence hasjust taken place on the North Shore, Auckland. Twenty-four years ago a youno- New Zealander, who went Home and married a Highland lassie, rented a house in the Highlands, where the honeymoon was spent before return.ng to New Zealand. This season, wishing to have a change at the holiday time, the colonial advertised that he wished, to lease Ina house furnished for six weeks, or would exchange for that period for a house in Hie countrv. lie received a reply offering to take the house, and enclosing b week’s rent n. advance. The new tenant was a Scotsman, and after a little conversation he proved to be the very man who nearly a quarter of a centurv ago had leased his house in the Highlands to the New Zealander who had just commenced Hie completed life with his vnnng Scottish wife. It is reported that 17 railway bridges are to be constructed at a cost approximately of £200,000 in British South Africa. Five 150-feet steel spans will bo required for the Vaal River alone. It is also proposed to construct 209 miles of railway through the diamond mining district of Griqualand West, thus helping to link up Angra Pequen'a with Delegoa Bay, semiring a west coast port <>oo miles nearer to Europe than Cape lown is. .