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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3279, 26 July 1911, Page 8

Ben Nevis mountain in Otago, has been safely negotiated by a motor-car. At 3000 feet snow proved a very difficult obstruction. The actual ' height of the mountain is 4406 feet. It took four days to accomplish the feat. A well-known Chinese resident, Yun Wah, returned to Riverton last week after several years’ absence in China. He informed the “Western Star” that there is a great advance in trade in China at the present time. The railway will soon be completed from Canton to Pekin, and this will open up the country considerably. He says large factories are springing up on all sides, and the iron and coal mines of the interior are being worked. The country is hardly ever free from risings, and in his own city of Canton, not long ago there was a collision between the troops and Boxers, when over two hundred of the latter were killed. Yun Wah has a great admiration for the British, who are investing large sums in fostering industries. He is a doctor by profession, and a British subject, having come to this country thirty-five years agOi . He intends to spend some time in New Zealand.

It "Was stated at the inguiry into the Manx Constitution that it cost £4 to fine a person 2s 6d for allowing a chimney to. be on fire. The first woman to assume the ordinary duties of a uniformed policeman' is Miss Teilmann Ibsen, stationed* at Aalberg, in Denmark. Ask for a Roslyn Sweater to-day.®