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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 18 April 1881, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS. I A late ingenious contrivance ifl photography is a 'winking picture! The operator takes one negative of I sitter with open eyes. Then be makfl the sitter shut his eyes and remain ifl exactly the same position whifl another negative is taken. The twfl negatives are printed on the samfl paper, one on each side, exactly coinfl ciding. When the double-faced pit tare is held in proper position befor a lamp, and the lamp is rapidly move or caused to flicker, the curious effec is produced of long continued winking No town in Africa can boast sac rapid growth as Kimberley, the sei of Government in Griqualand Wes and the headquarters of the Sout African diamond diggings. Eleve years ago not a hut stood where no 16,000 people, with a trade of ov( £2 000,000 a year, forming one of th most thriving communites on th African continent. It is now dii covered that the town is built upo land which promises to be as prodnc tiye of diamonds as the neighborin dggings, which have been the sourc of its wealth, and the very origin of it existence. A correspondent recently put th following question to one of the Sydne papers: — Between forty and fiftfl years ago it is said that a certain mafl living in Sydney was to be bangecH The sentence would have been fulfl filled but for the rope breaking threfl times successively, nnd seeming like I miraculous interposition from Heavenfl the aetiDg Governor granted fl reprieve. The poor man was save<fl and afterwards proved to be innocenfl Can you give me authentic information rs to his name?.' The editor's replfl