NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 555, 27 October 1902, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS.

It is proposed to expend £3OOO in building new corporation offices at Nelson. Tho municipal abattoirs at Blenheim will be completed at the beginning of next month. The City of Melbourne bank premises, in Collins street, Melbourne, were sold last week for ,£50,000, being at the rato of ,£IOOO per foot. A New Plymouth bird fancier lost one of his most valuable homing pigeons the other day through the bird fouling with a telephone wire. In somo German towns children are allowed to travel free on the local tram-way-cars if they are under a certain height, which is marked on the doors of the vehicle. The bones of at least 1000 persons have been brought to light during excavations at Toulon. They were buried in rows one above tbo other. The remains are supposed to be those of victims of the Revolution. A silver testoon of Edward VI., dated 1547, and in a good state of preservation, has been found during the excavations for tho new railway at Beaconsfield. Corn merchants at Assuan have formed themselves into a trust, and are buying up nil tbo cereals on the market, as the slow rise of the Nile augurs a bad harvest next season. “ Pepper," an elephant that couM play the organ, drum, and cymbals, lihs died at Yarmouth from dropsy. The animal, which was five years old, was valued at £SOO. Tho Commissioners, appointed to inquire into and adjudicate on the financial position of the Ohinemuri County and Waihi Borough, will visit Waibi tomorrow, in order to make themselves acquainted with the district. On the following day at Paeroa the sitting of the Commission will be commenced. On receiving j. £luu note as a tip > from Gates, the American millionaire, •'a waiter at; Saratoga. New Y'ork. fell s in a faint, hut on recovery lie threw 1 up his work, and proceeded tu spend ; tile money.

A six-masted schooner— the third and largest- six-master ever biiilt-, and the first six-master and second schooner ever constructed of steel—lias lieen contracted for at Fore River, Massachussets, where the steel seven-master Thomas IT. Lawson was recently launched. The new vessel will be 3U6 feet line, 48 feet beam, and 29 feet 9 inches deep, her load displacement 7700 tons, carrying capacity 5500 tons