NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 15 September 1902, Page 2

NEWS ITEMS.

With a card tacked to his coat, boaring tho words, “Willie Seaton, going to his undo, Magill street, Hamilton, Canada," an Oldham boy, nged seven, has safely travolled 3000 miles of water and 000 miles of land to his destination. Fifteen years is the age of a boy who has just been appointed organist of St. John’s Church, Driffield. Rhyl is to have an Eiffel Tower 140 ft high, tho turret of which will contain an electric searchlight of 20,000 candle-power. Three stone cross slabs bearing old Celtic sculpture have been found beneath the flooring of the old parish church at Fortingall, Perthshire. Five Parliamentary candidates will be run by tho Amalgamated Society of Engineers at the next general election in the United Kingdom. Ono hundred and fifty books unknown to any of the groat European libraries arp now on exhibition in Soho Square, London. Hair is alleged to be restored to the bald and plumage to naked birds by the waters of Casciana, North Italy. Smokers have been provided with a special reading room in the new public library erected at Belmont, Mass. The United States House of Representatives have passed the Anti-Anarchist Bill by 175 votes to 38. Bradford is to have a municipal publichouse, tho town council having decided to take over the management of a local tavern.

Glasgow Corporation has negatived a proposal that blind persons should be allowed to travel free over the local municipal tramway system. Hammondtown, the second largest town in Atlantic County, New Jersey, has been practically destroyed by fire, which was caused by a spark from a locomotive, When wo find such men as the Miniator of Public Works snubbing members, and the Minister of Lands talking about being “ a damned sight better off,” in the very House itself, we realise how small tho people of the Colony are, and how big are they who have been lucky enough to become Ministers of the Crown.—Wairarapa Times. Two old folks named Luxwolde, living at Langezwaag, in Friesland, recently celebrated the 73rd anniversary of their wedding. The husband is 96 and bis wife 90.

[ New coalfields which have been opened up in Poland may, it is stated, lead to Warsaw developing into one of the foremost manufacturing cities in Europe. So much damage was done to the crops in Sind last year by locusts that native collectors have been offered about lid for every pound weight of locusts’ eyes tbat they gather.

Mr Holls, whom rumor describes as Mr White’s successor as American Ambassador in Berlin, had a long talk with the Kaiser recently about the St. Louis Exposition. Mr Holls afterwards characterised the Kaiser as the smartest and bestinformed business man he had met in Germany. “No wonder I ain’t in my mind; I've been in three asylums, and surely that’s enough for any man,” declared a defendant in the Police Court at Birmingham. By 106 votes to 71 a Bill authorising the United States Government to construct a Trans-Pacific cable has been rejected by the House of Representatives. Six hundred insurgent Yaqui Indians have been attacked and routed by 2500 Mexican soldiers in the San Mazatlan district. Heavy losses are reported on both sides.

Near Lakeport, Minnesota, a tornado has swept a path three miles long and two miles broad, Ten persons perished, whilo a chumh and nine farms were destroyed,