General Items.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 223, 27 September 1901, Page 3

General Items.

Mr Massey, M.H.R., says that most of the money-lending in this colony is done by lawyers. The total cost to New South Wales of the pursuit and capture of the Breelong blacks was JE6071. The amount paid to civilians who took part in the pursuit was .£7Ol, and also -£2IOO as a reward. The Government have decided that there are not sufficient grounds for holding an enquiry into the recent charges made by Mr T. Mackenzie as to the treatment of a patient in the Dunedin Hospital. A murder resulting from a vendetta of twenty years' duration, says a despatch to the Daily Mail from Vienna, occurred in a church at Obotti one Sunday. A general fight ensued in the church between the respective partisans, with the result that seven persons were killed and twentythree wounded.

According to a despatch to the Daily Mail from St Petersburg, in the recent conflagration at Witebsk one thousand houses were destroyed, and one hundred lives lost. The prison was burned and many prisoners perished. A private of the 118th Regiment (Germany) has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for self-mutilation to escape army service. He tired a can of petroleum, blinding his right eye. The army surgeon told him to shoot with his left eye, whereupon the man ran a red-hot wire into the other eye. Reports in the newspapers of suicides and desertions are increasing at an alarming rate. Fire caused great excitement in Buckingham Palace, the city residence of >xing Edward, on August 20th. It was discovered soon after it started, and it was put out with little damage. Lord George Hamilton said lost mouth that he expected that before long the production of steel would be begun in India. A good deal of excitement has been caused by the report getting abroad that St. Paul’s Cathedral was in danger from excavations for the new underground railway. A perfect avalanche of inquiries has fallen upon the dean and canons in residence about it. Excursionists who are doing the cathedral gravely ask the vergers how long they think the building will last. There is, no doubt, widespread concern about the famous old building. There is no doubt, also, about the cracks which have been appearing all over the structure, A meeting of the Court of Appeal will be held at Wellington on October 14,

> At Tauranga on Sunday, a lad named Philip Western, about 15 years old, had 1 his left arm dislocated at the elbow very simply. He had been to the Presbyterian , Sunday-school, and on returning was i running, when another lad tripped him up, the consequence being a dislocated elbow. An Inglewood girl, who lately got married, is said to have starched and ironed her husband’s shirt all over, and the way he tried to sit down was amusing. —lnglewood Record. To-day, the erstwhile Ministerial candidate, who won his seat by mumbling the Seddonian shibboleth, is not afraid to impugn alike the veracity, the finance, and, indeed, the patriotism of the Premier. —Christchurch Press. A young man named McMahon has been admitted to the Corowa Hospital, New South Wales, sufferiDg from anthrax poisoning. A railway ganger named Purfleet was run down by a train while walking along the line near Bradford, Victoria, and cut to pieces. The capital value of ratable property in the City of Wellington was stated by the Valuer-General to be £7,372,342, and the [ unimproved value £4,433,600. At Mornington, Victoria, recently, a man named John Diamond was engaged in dismantling a lofty flagstaff, when the structure collapsed, and he fell a distance of 50ft, breaking his neck. A man named J. Patterson has been fined 40s, and 3s, the value of plants stolen from the Oamstru public gardens. The caretaker saw him pulling up plants and putting them i in his pockets. 1