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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 371, 21 March 1902, Page 1

Out of every 100 pounds of paper manufactured in the world only six pounds are made into books. Tho Bank of France can compel its customers to accept in gold oue-iifth of any money drawn from the Bank. Emht American vessels have been captured s by the British while poaching on tho sponge grounds off the Bahamas. Ping-pong has become a popular society amusement in \ienna, where a. Table Tennis Association has'just been formed. An offer of £BOO for the use on the day of the coronation procession of a suite of offices in Ludgate Circus has been declined. A church in London still possesses an income originally given to it for the purpose of buying faggots for burning heretics. - ~ , Nice and its neighborhood hold the record for holiday traffic. The average is 2,800,000 arrivals in the course of a year. ’ Why should Wellingtonians or Aucklanders grumble if it has taken ten, twentj’, or thirty yoors to complete thoir conI neat-ion when Ross is to he joined to Hoki- ' tika in two years ?—Wellington Post,