Tho average weight of honey taken fiom an English hive annually is 50 ,• . V lls is double the average product from American beehives. The record taken from any hive is 10001 b from a stock of Cyprians. One of the most valued possessions '111? . star Institute, at Philadelphia, is a collection of codicils to wills bequeathing the brains of the testators of the Institute for examination after death. Tho names are never divulged, but is is known that tlie testators are men of intellectual ability. The local paper at Salisbury, Rhodesia, in telling its readers of the arrival of a new motor-car for one of the local doctors, states that “pedestrians need.not be alarmed, as the machine is fitted'in front with a cowcatcher, and with tho doctor aboard first-aid will always be at hand.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19070626.2.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
134Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in