The Princess of Wales’ . favorite motor-car has its own little tale of how it came by its particular coloring. Walking fn the grounds of York Cottage one day soon after the car had been ordered, Her Royal Highness’s attention was attracted by a beautiful color contrast in tlio foliage of a fir tree. A bunch of tlio leaves was gathered and sent to the carriage-maker, wlio enamelled the car exactly in the delicate shades of green thus Indicated. A section of the Canadian Northern Railway, running north-west from Sudbury and crossing the Vermillion River, is unique in that it is ballasted with gold. Every vard of the gravel used for ballast has been found to contain from dO cents’ worth to a dollar’s worth of the precious metal, in the shape of fine dust, and a syndicate is installing machinery for its extraction.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 15 February 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)
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