NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 519, 16 September 1902, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

The Victorian Government nas called tenders for the construction of the Waranga dam, for the Goulburn Valley "irrigation scheme, the estimated cost of which is £2G4,01)U,

A child named Grace Simpson, aged IX months, had her eye peeked by a rooster on the premises of her father, at Haddon, Victoria. It is feared she will lose tlie sight of the eye. At Laggan, New South Wales, 'John McCormack, a youth, while out- rabbit shooting, was accidentally shot in the ankle, and it was found necessary to amputate the foot. In constructing the 27,000 casas fop potatoes sent to South Africa 400,000 feet of timber was used hv the Department of Commerce and Industries.

Great mortality is being caused iu Mudgee district. New .South Wales, by a pneumonia epidemic. Rabbits are extending to the very centre of Australia. Recently a live rabbit was caught to the westward ot Coolgardie. The Russian barque Lotus, which left Wallaroo on June 11th for Spain, was dismasted and abandoned, and the crew reached Callao, Peru, m boats,,

On August 31 John Trogellis, employed at South Yarra station, Melbourne, was knocked down by an engine, and so seriously injured that ho died. Over 7000 acres, in two areas, have been reserved for tbo growth and preservation of timber in tho Bambula and Eden districts, Now South Wales. A resident of Bungondore, New South Wales, named Mr Thos. Smith, who is over 70 years of ago, while in a fit foil into tho fire, and was badly burnt about the

head before being rescued. Burglars entered tho Gronfell railway station", New South Wales, recently, blew up tho safe with dynamite, and got away with JJ29 and a cheque for j£lo. Tho Water and Sewerago Board is seeking authority to resume all freehold lands on tho Sydney catchment area, where pollution of tho water supply by stock, etc. is feared. On Saturday week Edward Freeman, a widower, residing in Carlton, Victoria, hanged himself with a silk nocktio to a clothes peg in his bedroom. A wharf laborer named Owen McConnell was seized with a fit at the corner of Sussex and Erskine streets, and died a few hours later in tho Sydney

Hospital. A little girl, fivo years of ago, named Rosie Jonkins, of Ganmain, Now South Wales, was burnt to death, as tho result of her flannelette clothing having been icnitod by a spark from a fire. A young man, 19 years of ago, was being arrested in North Melbourne, when tho constable was assaultod with a glass decantor and seriously injured. A sailor named Lars Jonsberg, whilo furling tho mainsail of tho barquo Charles Racine in the Indian Ocean, on July 22, fell from the yardarm and was drowned. Holland has decided to grant a subsidy to a Dutch company for running between Java, China, and Japan a monthly service of steamers flying the national flag. Mr I’owoll Williams is to move in the

House of Commons that tho pay of the Army officers should bo sufficient to meet the necessary expenses incident to their rank and duties. Tho Daimler Motor Car Company of Coventry has despatched to Windsor tho fourth motor car which they have manufactured for the King. A fifth car is to be delivered next autumn. Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, who is now at Schaumborg Castle, is stated to bo still so weak that it is necessary to carry hor about on a stretcher. “ Monsieur Paul,” a carter who was injured in Paris and taken to the Lariboiserc Hospital, has been discovered to bo a woman. She has worn male attire sinco her childhood.

Lake Morat, in Switzerland, has tho curious property of turning red overy 10 years, owing to the presence of certain aquatic plants which aro not known in auy other lako in tho world. Austrian tailors have decided to publish quarterly a black list, to contain the names and addresses of unsatisfactory clients and tho oxact amounts of their dobts.

The rose is the emblem of secrecy in Greece, and was formerly hung over the table where guests woro entertained in tokon that nothing heard there was to be repeated. Tho vibration of tho diaphragm of a tolcphono receiver is not easily measured, but tho best calculation is said to show a movement of about one-20,000,000th of an inch.

Flying-maehino steering by Hertzian waves was Mr Patrick Alexander’s striking proposition at the late Berlin scientific ballooning conference. He claims that an unmanned balloon, carrying instruments for registering temperaturo and moisture at different heights, can bo sent 50 miles and steered back to the starting point. A new and secret system of automatic anti-collision signals has just been tried in Switzerland' and the result? are said to

have been in every way satisfactory. The plan is lo be adopted on the Swiss railways. The project to erect a tower of Sevres porcelain on the heights of St. Cloud, near Paris, is likely to receive the sanction of the French Government. It will bo 17ft higher than the famous Nanking tower. According to a decision in the Clcrkenwell (London) County Court, the nailing of a summons to a street door is “ good service,” provided that the defendant is living in the house at the time. Betting on the results of the recent municipal elections at Rome was permitted by the Government. The wagering was conducted on the parimutuel system, and the profits were devoted to charitable

purposes. Savanyu Jozsi, a famous Hungarian robber chief, who had been pardoned by the Emperor Joseph, and whose exploits are related in folk songs and stories, has been murdered in his home at Gejongyos. While a railway employee at Harden, New South Wales, named Haye?. was examining a revolver the weapon ace dentally exploded, the bullet entering the left breast of Hayes, who is in a srrious eondit'on. Recently .John Ryan, an inmate of the Rockwond Asylum, New South Wales, died in his 104th year. He was described in the records as an Australian native, his birthplace being Sydney, it: the year 1799. Whilst cycling at Hawera Mr Ted King (a

returned trooper) had the misfortune to fall and break his right arm. He was Dot aware of tho extent of the damage till examining it next morning. As a result of the raids on the gambling saloons at Perth, West Australia, recently, the public revenue has benefited to the extent of £lB3. The principals were fined each £25 and costs, aiders and abettors 35s each. At Suva recently a gentleman who had written some pro Boer letters to the local press was roughly hand!, d by a gang of larrikins, and was found lying insensible in an out-of-the-way street. According to the Southland News' New River Valley correspondent, Mr James Diain lost his w.ll-known prize mare Girlie on Saturday night week. She was found dead

in the stable, the headstall with which she was tied having by some means got round her neck, with the result that she was choked. The Oamaru branch of tho Farmers' Union has decided to urge that the law should be amended so as to provide for a workman who is injured being compensated from the date of injury. At present the Act docs not award any compensation for the first fortnight after the injury is received.

The franknoss and good-will with which tho Boors apparently accepted defeat had a great effect on British sentiment. It is. however, prematuro to attach implicit confidence to vague professions of good-will. A conquered people aro not apt to bo seized with a sudden affection for their conquorors ; and, of all the races in tho world, the Boers would seem tho least likely to forgive and forget. No doubt the majority of them were thankful for tho conclusion of peace, and genuinely affected by the moderation of tho terms of surrender. But it would bo foolish to argue from their expressions of good will that thoy have acccptod British rulo as a permanent settement of the Scuth African problem. —Hawke’s Bay Herald.

The motor-man and- his “infernal machine ” have plainly come to stay. The horse has got to go, and his place will be taken by a puffing, racketting, and generally smellful engine, driven by a man in spectacles and a leather uniform, called a chauffeur. Parliament, we observe, is considering how fast it will let this motorman drive his machine, and proposes to restrict him to ten miles an hour. We are opposed to any restriction when ho doesn’t endanger the lives and limbs of anybody but himself. Nobody cares whether the motor-man hurls himself into Kingdom Come at the rate of ten or fifty miles an hour, so long as there is no one around to get hurt in the process. The Legislature ought to begin at the other end, and protect the public by refusing any amateur person without skill or experience the right to drive a motor-car at all. A motor driven fast by a skilled expert isn’t so dangerous as a horse driven fast by an unskilled amateur, anyhow. Therefore, if we are to have the motorcar, don’t let us impair its usefulness, but rather take care that it is not allowed to become a terror to the community as well. —Truth.

The publication in every newspaper in New Zealand of a standing list of members who use their position in Parliament to muzzle the press might not be without salutary effect.—Auckland Star. Miss Helen Grantley, an American actress, has brought a suit, through her lawyers, against a firm of corset-makers, to recover 50,000d01s damages for using her picture to advertise their goods. “ The editor is one of the happiest beggars in the world,’’ wrote an American schoolboy in his essay on newspapers. “ He can go to the circus in the afternoon and evening without paying a cent, also to inquests and hangings. He has free tickets to the theatre, and gets wedding cake sent him, and sometimes get licked, but not often. While other folks have to go to bed early, the editor can sit up every night, and seo all that is going on.”—Cornhill Magazine.

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