NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 May 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Victoria Cross has been won HO times during the recent lighting in Africa and China.

Japan experiences on an average 5G earthquake shocks in the course of year.

Boiled parrot is considered a luxury by the Mexicans. The Icelander believes that whistling is as sinful as profanity. It is stated that the men who live on the mountain ranges of California are notable for their remarkably retentive memories.

There are 11,000,’000 Hebrews in the world, of whom (55,000 reside in London and 85,000 in ..other parts of the United Kingdom.

So useful arc toads in gardens that they arc sold in France by the dozen for stocking gardens, to free them from many injurious insects. The New Plymouth Magistrate was engaged on Friday and Saturday hearing the charge against Sarah Marsh, of removing survey pegs on land at Waihi. Defendant, who is a half-caste was fined dll and costs, and warned that a repetition of the offence would be more soverly punished.

It is announced in Turkish journals that an Iradee has been issued authorising 00,000 Mussulman emigrants from the Gausasus to settle in Turkey at the cost of the Government.

The reign of absinthe is doomed in France, the Ch unber having voted a resolution forbidding the manufacture and sale of any “essence recognised as dangcrousj and declared as such, by the Academy of Medicine.” From 1801 to 1809 the annual consumption of absinthe in Paris has doubled.

The Emperor William (says “Vanity Pair”) has made a present to the Queen of Holland, which, however gratifying, is, perhaps, a little premature. It is a bottle of water from the River Jordan, for use at the baptism c£ the coming Royal Family of the Netherlands. The proposals, frequently moo'ed in this country of late, as a trade union for domestic servants, has, it appears, taken shape in America About 400 female “helps” have now banded themselves together in New York. The name of the union is not stated, but the members arc seeking recognition by the American Federal ion of Labour,

Mr Watson Armstrong, heir of the late Lord Armstrong, has given £IOO,OOO to the Infirmary of Newcastle-on-Tyim, in memory of his distinguished uncle. A shipment of hone}' recently made by a Poverty Bay settler realised .G 42 10s per ton in tlio London market. The settler in question has been obtaining an average yield of OOlbs honey per hive during the season.

Golden syrup containing starch glucose, says the public analyst for Marylebone, is a more probable source of poisoning now than beer.

Mr James Ledingham, against whom a charge of manslaughter in connection with the fatal accident on board the Central Fdectric dredge was thrown out by the Grand Jury, was on Saturday last, at Cromwell, presented with a purse of sovereigns, subscribed chiefly by dredgers as a token of their sympathy for him in his treubl \

It is necessary now that the Barber has nude it appearance, for ladies to see that the Llmkets arc in good order, otherwise they will have to cal] in the doctor and you all know what his charges are one visit, one pair of blankets. All wo say is go to Christopher Smith, our “up-to-date” Cash Draper, and see his exceptional bargains in blankets; only 5/11, 10/6, 15/6 20/-, 27/6 a pair.—Advt.

WADE’S ‘WORM FIGS arc more effective and not unpleasant; ch most thrive after taking them. Price lildrcn.

How does a man get in a funk, And take himself right off to bunk, Just when a pain with symptoms vague, Will make him think he’s caught the plague. How often docs a cough or cold Make cowards of the brave and bold, Until they find the remedy sure— W. E. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cuke.