NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 867, 17 April 1903, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

►Succossful demonstrations have been made in France with an apparatus invented by Honor Basanta, a Spaniard, for electric intercommunication between moving trains. Official notification has been made to a small Irish farmer named Hawe, at Ballyhay, County Alonaghan, that an estate in Rhodesia worth over £50,000 has been left to him.

Within half an hour of tho death of one of a pair of twin boys at Leicester, the other one died—through, the doctor said, a certain curious sympathy which exits between twins. Out of 150,000 children whom a surgeon at Leeds has examined as to their fitness for factory labor, 50,000 were found to be rickety in consequence of improper feeding when babies. In one week recently tiie Glasgow Cor-

poration tramways carried 0,402,141 passengers, an enormous increase of 748,081 over the same week of the previous year. A sword of honor subscribed for by the people of Rhodesia was presented to Bri-gadier-General Elumor at the offices of the Chartered Company, St. Swithin’s Bane. Ten young Corwins arc being sent by tin: Emperor of Corea to finish their education in Russia, the first of regular parties whose expenses the Emperor will pay. Excavations for tho erection of a I°storey building on tiie site of the qM home of Captain Kidd, the pirate, at New York, are expected to reveal buried treasures.

During the search in Dublin Bay forth 0 wreck of tho lost Alarlay tho divers hav G discovered tho hull of a largo wooden ship, tho existence of which is an entire mystery.

To a cloth manufacturer at Louvier tho municipality of Paris has to pay -£12,000 compensation for depriving his factory of its motive power by ; diverting a watercourse. ’1

During tho course of the coming summer a new and luxuriously-fitted pleasure yacht for tho Czar will be laid down in the Baltic yard, St. Petersburg. Blackburn Burial Society', tho oldest body of tiie kind in tho kingdom, possesses the iuuidsomo balance of .£882,402, and is adding £OOO to it every weely Lallan's Agency says that a Corean has arrived iu America to place contracts for a supply of idols for use iu Corea and China, models of which he has with him.

Native feelings in India havo been hurt by the new rupeo beeauso tho King appears on it without his crown. To be bare-headed is repuguunt to the Oriental.

Air Seddon, in tho course of his speech at Waiuiatu, said he was sorry that the Now Zealand buys did not go in for fishing. lie thought that tho license charges deterred them, and personally ho hated Che name of a game law. The acclimatisation societies had slocked the rivers with the assistance of public money, and now the license fees were so high that comparatively few people could afford them. He intended to submit proposals to Parliament iu tho direction of allowing boys to go to any post office, pay a shilling, and obtain a license for a day’s fishing. The meeting loudly applauded the statemeut.