NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 701, 22 December 1902, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

A steel factory has been started at Grcyiiioulli.

At Grange, South Australia, a Mrs Steel went to sleep on the steps of a rowing shed, and fell into the water, and was drowned.

At Sydney Edward Sawtcll, a. young man, was fatally injured by the explosion of a, rifle at a shooting gallery.

Before the drought broke up Ihe Sydney Water and Sewerage Board was considering a scheme to produce lain by electricity. The Duller District Hospital Board is granting relief to 27 persons, at a weekly cost of £7 3s, besides maintaining eight children in industrial schools at , a cost £2 8s per week. At- a Ballarat Baptist Church, the periodical baptismal ceremony was recently postponed, owing to lack of Water, and for a similar icason the oigan at St. Patrick’s Cathedral was silent-.

The Waikato Maori Council opens at Waalii, near Huntly, at the beginning of next month, and its sitting will lie made the occasion for a hirge gathering of Natives. Food supplies for the meeting are already arriving at Mahuta’s settlement.

A roport from San Francisco allogos that there are seven white men held as prisoners on Tiburon Island, in the Gulf of California, by the Seri Indians. It is believed by those who heard the story of the prisoners that they include Lieutenant R. E. L. Robinson and his partner, Mr Logan, of Cleveland, 0., who wont to the island ten years ago and never returned, and Capt. Porter, of San Diego, another of eevoral who it is reported wore massacred and caton by the Indians.

A Japanese member of Parliament, Mr Tanaka by name, was lately sentenced to 15 days’ imprisonment and a fine of 10s for yawning in Parliament. The Crown Prosecutor maintained that in an Assembly where order has to be maintained even an act of a phvsiological nature should lj4 controlled. As the defendant, however, had yawned in order to annoy the Government, tho offence was even more punishable.

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