NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 510, 5 September 1902, Page 2

NEWS ITEMS.

By a big blunder the sea pumps of tbs cruiser Bayon, built at Toulon for the Russian Government, have been so fitted that instead of pumping water out of tho vessel 8 engine-room they pump H in. -^ r .i. Kruge^s P° rtrait and a guillotine with the words “ Home, sweet home,” beneath it, were found tattooed on the bodies of two members of a gang of footpads who nave just been arrested in Paris. Death by misadventure was the verdict returned at- a corner’s inquest at Constan- . tmople on the body of Lieutenant Bag-, : , kcout, who was recently found l 2 ear ddekos, on the Asiatic shore of , th ® Bosphorus, and a full account of whose mysterious disappearance appeared in last week’s World’s News. Two thousand three hundred carrier pigeons took part in a recent flying match between Rome and Ghent. There will be a delay of seven or eight months in the opening of the Simplon Tunnel, which was originally fixed for May 17, 1 904. Sir Rudolf Slatin believes that the introduction of motor-cars in the Soudan would assist materially in the development of the country. I A family of Indian wild swine only five j weeks old has recently been acquired bv j the London “ Zoo.” The antics of the ■ nttle fellowß are most amusing, and are uaily witnessed by hundreds of people Admiral Fournier, of the French Navy, has ordered that only volunteers are to be allowed to form the crews of submarines. No one is to be drafted for duty on these vessels who does not offer of his own free will for the work,