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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 October 1901, Page 3

A road-roller to the order of the Nelson Borough Council will be shipped from London on Saturday.

Sluicing operations arc being steadily continued on the Addison s claims, among the best of which are those owned by Carmody and Party, Neil and Party, and Hartigan and Party. A Maori divorce suit is amongst the other delectable morsels to be served up at the approaching civil sittings of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth. Truly we live in an age of progress. The ‘Chinese Twins” recently exhibited at Vienna are two boys united on the breast, and were born in 1887 at Nanking. The mother was twenty years old and the father eighteen at the time, and both were normal. The twins are of ordinary intelligence, and one can sleep while the other wakes, but infection passes from one to the other. _ Whiskey was given to one of them, but it was the other who showed signs of drunkenness. A remarkable operation which (says “Cassell's Magazine”) may have important consequences in surgei'y, has been performed by Dr. Garel, of Lyons. A nail of iron, nearly two inches long, which a child of 18 months had allowed to get into the bronchial tube, was drawn out by the means of an electro-magnet and the patient relieved. Another operation of the kind is reported fi’om Bordeaux, where Dr. Piochaud opened the trachea of a child three years old, and by inserting a stem of iron, magnetised by an electro-magnet, extracted a nail which had got there. A post-mortem examination of a valuable horse, which died suddenly at Wanganui, a few days ago, revealed two bucketsful of sand in the stomach, which had been swallowed while the horse was grazing in a paddock of sandy formation.