NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 828, 17 February 1903, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

In many o£ the wold villages of East Yorkshire the public wells are quite dry. Berlin University is now attended by 7091 students, the largest number on record. Liverpool and Birkenhead have agreed to share the costs in the Kensit murder trial. Fifteen large vessels and about 400 boats are now ice-bound in the Lower Danube. Kents in Spitalfields have in many instances risen 163 per cent since last year. General de Wet has ordered a stock of live poultry to be sent to him from England. Ten miners have been drowned by the sudden inundation of a coalpit at Brux. Bohemia. Motor-cars have been adopted for scouting purposes by the Swiss military authorities.

Austria’s oldest army officer, Major Count Ferdinand Kunigi, has died at Meran, aged 99. Oranges were sold at Id per lb. in one of the London street markets just before Christmas. Two small water-colors by Birket Foster were sold for .£987 at Christie’s, London, recently. Nearly 600 persons have lost their lives by boiler explosions in Great Britain during the last 20 years. In Dublin a limited liability company has been formed to carry on the Gaelic language movement. Influenza is rife at Doncaster (Eng.), where one doctor alone has 120 patients down with the complaint. King Oscar of Sweden declares that it was his passionate love for the sea that made him a poet. The Duke of Manchester has been appointed Deputy Grand Master of the Orangemen of Ireland. Twenty-six pounds for a pack of German playing-cards dated 1558 at Sotheby’s, London, recently. Abundance was priced recently at 6,500 guineas. The enquiry came from England. At Calcutta, bookmakers pay a fee of £26 a day for betting. Tho Club has the totalisator besides. During the 1902 season in Belgium there were 127 days’ racing, tho added money totalling £66,800. St. Ambrose, nominated for Newmarket Handicap and Australian Cup, cost 1500 guineas as a yearling in England.