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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 33, 29 October 1920, Page 4

HERE AND THERE.

Glasgow Corporation electricity accounts show a loss for the year of £54,000. The Director-General of the London Housing Bonds Campaign states that sales are now well into the third million.

The battered gun which was served by Jack Cornwell, V.C., in H.M.S. Chester, at the Battle of Jutland, has been added to the War Museum at the Crygtal Palace. Mrs Amelia Spurgeon, aunt of the celebrated preacher, celebrated her 101st birthday on Saturday at her home at Upper Norwood. Her mother reached the age of 90, while her sister and brother botli lived to be over 80.

A defendent in Clare County on refusing to pay a Sinn Fein claim was ghut np in a vault containing fiv,e coffins and terrorised into compliance. i The New Jersey State Boxing Association hag tentatively decided to investigate the Carpentier-Levinsky fight. The great central arch of glass at the Crystal Palace is being strengthened by an elaborate system of steel supports, the stanchions and girders used weighing over 80 tons, The arch has only undergone minor repairs since the Palace was built, nearly 70 years ago. A strong exhortation to maintain the great est moderation in all political questions is stated to have been addressed to Archbishop Mannix by the Consistorial Congregation at Rome. Ex-soldiers in the Cheviot village of Wooler for the second time within a fortnight have thrown a German gun into the Tweed, in. the presence of a large crowd of cheering onlookers. Ihe quantity of new booiis placed during the year in the University library at Cambridge; as measured by shelf room required to contain them, amountg to about 880 linear feet. . From a single seed potato Mr Arthur Cook, a Braintree allotmenfc holder, has dug 106 potatoes. Walsingham (Norfolk) Rural Council ha,ve given the foreman huilder In their housing acheme an uncompleted house "to hurry him up." On ihe arrival of a Great Westem train at Newport (Mon.), the body of a child packed in a parcel was discovered in one of the carriageg.