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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 701, 22 December 1902, Page 1

The oil cure for dusty roads is being tried in Loudon. The Daily Telegraph says that a portion of the Loudon and Southampton road, between Farnborough and Aldershot, was treated with crude petroleum. Two dressings were given, and the oil soaked quickly into the road, the surface being left well-knit and firm. A stretch of about a mile was under experiment, and 1000 gallons of oil were laid to every quarter of a mile. M, Lhoste, a Parisian aeronaut, has built au airship in which a balloon is dispensed with, five large pairs of motordriven wings being relied on for elevating and propelling purposes. A trial trip is to bo made shortly over a lake, The other day a man liviug in Chicago went to a telephone near the house of his sweetheart and rang up the young lady, Ho requested her to " hold on,” and then went round to a side window of her houso where he could see her, drew a revolver, and fired at the girl, wounding her in the left side. A miner at the Adelong Proprietary gold mine. New South Wales, was tipped out of tire cage He fell 1!'» iceL into the water at the bottom of the shaft, and was severely injured. A man named James Scott was lighting a lamp on Sorrento jetty, Melbourne, when the wind blew the ladder down. Scott had his thigh fractured besides sirs taming other very serious ic^nieSi