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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

Tho Church of iSaint-Picrro at Montmartre, which has been cio e-1 for the list six years for repairs, is about to be reopened for public worship. It is the oldest church ill Paris, having been buiit in the twelfth century, by Louis VI. and bis Queen. .Mix of Savoy. It served as chapel to a Beiiedictinecon vent, also founded by the same King—a “Royal 'convent, the abbesses of which were appointed by the King, instead of being elected by the nuns. Dm iig !ne Reign of Terror tho abbess and all thoriums in residence were •uidot'i.ed. . Comparisons between the speed < ■ the Lusitania and the two crack German liners would hive more value if we were sure that the knot-. !y which each boats speed ism ea-’ired were of the same length in Kngh-li feet. Theoretically, a knot (or nautical mile) is a minute of are of tin' meridian of a particular latitude, and virus with the latitude, owing to the earth not being a sphere.. A* tin l equator, for instance, a unul would lie (iOfd.h-jft. at the Poles G107.7()ft. and in the latitude of the ocean route from f'biropo to New Yorw about GOSUIt. Nfiuticnl surveyors take into account these small differences. . A sundial has been designed ano executed at Southampton, to be placed by order of the' King in the grounds of Barton ourt. a royal, manor oil the Osborne estate. It is to mark the spot- on which formerly