NEWS ITEMS

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 511, 6 September 1902, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS

Berlin now possesses 60,000 telephones. Berlin proposes to tax cats, and fine the owners of straying tabbies. Alexandria was bombarded by the British fleet 20 years ago. More than three times as much fish was landed at Grimsby last year as at Billingsgate. Magazine rifles will be issued shortly to the Moorish Army. Tho Russian Consul at Salonika has suddenly resigned his appointment to enter a monastery. A locomotive going at express speed gives 1056 puffs per mile. The City of London, only one square mile in area, has in all 77 churches. Dowager Queen Margberita of Italy has just purchased a motor-car. Sixteen thousand four hnndred laborers on the average find employment daily at tho docks and principal wharves in London. A Chinese official in Shanghai recently entertained a number of foreign officials to a dinner of 126 courses. Mr Carnegie has asked to be supplied with an estimate of the probable cost of erecting a new free library at Grimsby. Yet another free library donation from Mr Andrew Carnegie. Lambeth is tho lucky recipient, and the amount is £12,500. Mine. Theresia Albert, tho heaviest woman in Vienna, has just died, age 66. Sho was over 6ft. in height, and weighed 30st. 101 b. Twenty-nine empty cartridge cases have just been feund in tho body of a bullock slaughtered at Cullompton, Devon. Dospite his 105 years, Jeremiah Clifford, who lives noar Ballingarry, Co. Limerick, is still able to tend and till his farm. Cold milk, sponge cake, and a littlo tinned salmon were given to a one-year-old baby at Coventry (Eng.) the child died next morning. *• Our ancestors lived by murder and sudden death,” declared Sir Robert Ball, the great astronomer. The “ Moniteur de la Flotte ” claims that the French Navy has established the chief record for speed in the navies of the world. Tho French Government has decided not to continue the policy of advance in Wadai, and in the Senussi territory in the ■Western Soudan.

Since June 22 between 10,000 and 20,000 eases and 6000 to 8000 deaths have occurred from cholera at Manila,

An extraordinary fire took place recently in a hugo Sunderland warehouse used for the storage of Norwegian ice. It was totally destroyed, despite the fact that the melting of the ice within helped the efforts of the firemen.

The attendants at early Mass at the Church of St. Lube, in the outskirts of Bologna (Italy), were horrified to see a corpse dangling from the big cross in front of the sacred edifice. A young laborer, after drinking heavily overnight, had ended his career of debauchery by committing suicide in this strange manner. A cheque for 000 has been drawn by the Swiss Government for payment of the stock-holders of tho railway recently purchased by that State. The United States Government have given orders for all work on coaling stations in the Pacific to cease owing to the promising experiments now going forward with oil fuel.

A Budapest student has created a record in duels by fighting eight in succession, and disabling each of bis opponents until the eighth was reached, when he was wounded in tho wrist. A party composed of headmasters from well-known English public and grammar schools Jlcft Liverpool on July 81 for an educational tour through Canada to the Pacific coast and back. Mr Chamberlain has refused to accede to a petition of the people of Labuau to remove them from the administration of the British North Borneo Company. The United States Government will establish a wireless telegraphic station in the Navesink Highlands for the use of outgoing and incoming steamers. The following original notice adorns a stand in the Borough-road, London “ Seats and moneys must _ remain in abeyance until settled by Parliament.” A silken thread is three times as strong as a fiaxen one of the same thickness.