NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 April 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Out of the many tenders, that of Sir John Jackson (Limited), London, has been accepted by the British Admiralty for the docks at Simon’s Bay, Cape Colony. The contract price is £3,500,000. The Fajah of Jhind, one of the wealthiest Indian princes, has celebrated his comicg of age by marrying a European lady. The bridegroom is said to be already the husband of two native girls. 'A defendant was summoned in South London at the instance of twelve reside nts for causing a nuisance by the effluvia escaping from his fried-fish shop. The Magistrate inflicted a fine of £lO, with five guineas cost. A pneumatic system of working signals and points which tbe South Western Railway Company (England) is about to adopt, will, it is said, entirely revolutionise the working of all the large signal boxes. It will, it is claimed, be quicker, easier, and more economical than tbe present system.

Mr Sheldon’s attempt to produce an ideal newspaper is apparently to be followed by another essay along the same lines. 3)r Park hurst announces that a syndicate of wealthy reformers is preparing to establish in New York an ideal newspaper, “ the novel features of which,” he says, “will be that it will tell the truth, will be free from political control and will contain no sensational matter.” Queen Dowager Margherita of Italy has just completed the distribution of her personal effects, and has finally retired from the Court, Her three hundred superb costumes have been apportioned among her friends. Immediately after King Humbert’s funeral she sent to the museum at Florence, the exquisite embroideries which made so fine an exhibit at the Chicago Exposition, and all her jewellery has been given to relatives. A party of students from tbn Sacred Heart College have been vhi ing the National Park. Sydney, with their icnchcr each week-end for some time. On Saturday, 22nd December, two of the boys suddenly got into deep water while bathing near the Audlcy dam, and one of them, Patrick Niles, aged twelve, did not rise again. His body was secured in about four minutes, but he was dead. Though the taking of a “liquor” afterdinner may not (says the Lancet) be a pressing necessity, yet it is probably a physiologically correct proceeding, apart from the question of the wliolcsomcness of the individual constituents of the sweet aromatic spirituous liquid. Liqueurs are. of course, decidedly stimulating. and they induce a sense of warmth and comfort after a meal which may mask any feeling of gastric discomfort that might otherwise be experienced.