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Show CONDENSATIONS ... y .r The Society islands, far away In the South sea, now have wireless communication com-munication with the outer world, a radio station having been opened by the French government on the Island of Taliltt last winter. Communication with the United States will be y'a Samoa and New Zealand and tilebce by cable to San Francisco. It is expected ex-pected that the cost of ibessages to the United States will exceed otle dollar dol-lar a word. Later on it Is hoped lo reduce ttlis more than half by sending send-ing the messages over' nu all-wireless route. The tautara, or tuatefil, fa fln uinlost extinct lizardlike reptile (Splie notion punctatuiHJ, how found only on ce;' tain rocky islets' In the bay of Plenty, northern Js'ew Zeaiafid. It Is of great Scientific interest for the reason that it is the only surviving representative of the order of prosauria, or primitive reptiles, nnd is therefore a sort of "livJ ing fossil." It was formerly hunted for food, Wi Is now protected by law in New Zealand, -.- ... , Governor de OJrTtisff of the Colony' of .he old Dutch repitbftc at S't, Eiista-tins, Eiista-tins, W. I., was the first oflleiaf of a' foreign nation to salute the American flag. This event oceurrea' ow November Novem-ber 10, 177G, when a Yanketf ship en-cered en-cered the harbor of St. Eustafnis. In the British army a battnh''u of. 1.01G men requires for its daily rations ra-tions C35 two-pound loaves, 127 pountfs of bacon, more than 31 pounds of salt and nearly 13 pounds of pepper, to mention only a few of the items. To lessen the humming of telephone wires fastened to buildings a new German system incloses them In cement ce-ment cylinders that are softer on the. Inside than the outside. British Columbia leads all other provinces In the Dominion of Canada in the value of its fisheries products; the aggregate for 1915 being approxi-j approxi-j mately $15,000,000. |