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wonderful new, range-findbii. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.)' Received Sept, 11, 0.55 p.m. London, Scpi. 11. Padre Alfani, director of the Florence Observatory, has invented an aerial range-finder, which permits of bombthrowing with a mathematical, certainty of hitting the target at any speed and from any height. LIQUOR IN FRANCE. London, Sept. 11. The French Government lias suppressed the old privilege of the peasant class of the right to distil for pri'vate consumption. Enormous advantage ■had been taken of the privilege, fully a million peasants distilling brandy and other spirituous liquors from the fruit crop. A reduction in the number of public-houses is also contemplated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1915, Page 8
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107GENERAL ITEMS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1915, Page 8
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