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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 329, 18 January 1911, Page 3

The automatic pistols with which the London anarchists in the Sydney street affair were armed, are very deadly weapons, more so than the ordinary revolver. With the revolver it is necessary to keep pressing and releasing the trigger to keep up a succession of shots but with the automatic weapon all that is required is to keep a steady pressure on the trigger and the bullets, to the number of six or ten, according to the description of weapon, keep pouring out as from a magazine gun. This enables a more deadly aim to be maintained than can be the case with a revolver of the ordinary type. It has been found possible to hold the entrance examination for the Military College of Australia at each of the four principal centres. Candidates may consequently present themselves at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunein, or Wellington. In ths syllabus of examination (which can be obtained from the Defence Department) part 2 division 1 paragraph 2, (111) the words "Australian History from 1 Sol to 1901" should oe struck out and the following substituted, viz.: "New Zealand History from 1851 to 1901." As the examination will take place probably about the loth February next, intending candidates in the Auckland district should at once apply to the Deience Office, Auckland.

One of the strangest incidents, and at the same time one of the most terrifying, occurred in one of the Pittsburg steel mines recently. A man was carrying a steel billet i through a shop when he came within i range" of a 30-ton magnet used as a crane. It sucked him to it like a flash, and the 10-foot jump into the >. air was made with such force that the man was fatally injured by the impact. Addressing a gathering of State j Cadets School in Melbourne, Senator ! l'earse, Minister of Defence, exhorted ! them to beware of cigarette-smoking. I He said: "Rifie shooting depends to a ' great extent on the eyes and nerves, and these can be brought tinder con- | trol by practice. There is one fatal enemy to both, however—-the deadly cigarette. Tho;'e who take it will never excel with the rifle. Without I steady nerves one cannot shoot | straight."