NEWS ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 946, 20 July 1903, Page 2

NEWS ITEMS.

In strong sunlight a white objeot can be seen at a distune of 17,250 times its own diameter; that is, a white disc a foot in diameter can be seen at a distance of 17,250 ft. Jan Kubelik, the celobrated BohenKan violinist, who recently became engaged to Countess Marianne Csaky-szell, has tiled a petition to become a Hungarian citizen. The Gorman Emperor has promised to contribute-£IOO a year to the German Cathoiio’ Church in Whitechapel. There are some 35,000 German Catholics in London. The largest salmon' ever caught With a rod or line on the Severn has just been captured by Mr M. Woosman, of Newtown. It measured over 40in. long, and weighed 26£lb. It is understood that in future British convicts will receive the value of their private clothes instead of these being sold at public auction and credited to the publio account. “Panic drill” for children is the latest exercise in Portsmouth board schools. This is to avoid a dangerous rush to the doors in oase of fire. British capitalists are successfully working the copper deposits in: the Morgoui valley of the Caucasus, using machii ry of the most modern type. During the progress of a cricket match near Tuliamoro, King’s County, two young men, while fielding, collided violently, and one died from his injuries. - Locked in his office by mistake, a Swiss editor, in order to keep an appointment with his wife, jumped out of a third floor window and broke his leg. “ Our Gunnery Department has adopted a new system which, I believe, will shortly make it the best in the world,” said Lord Charles Beresford at Belfast. Over £16,000 is said to have been ob-

tained by false pretences by a gang of Paris swindlers whose methods are alleged to be based on those of Mme. Humbert. Gold discoveries have been made at Kairouan, in Tunis. The samples as said to average from 15dvvt. to 3oz. per ton. Altnough the Suez Canal is only 99 miles long, it reduces the distance from England to India by sea nearly 4000 miles. Having decided to raise the price of milk, the milkmen of Bienqe, Switzerland, have been boycotted by the inhabitante. Prolonged drought—the worst for.-, 35 years—has been experienced in the Eastern States of America as far south as Georgia. Electricity is to be used for lighting the bow, masthead, and compass lamps of tho British torpedo-boat destroyers now being built. There were 25 cremations in Scotland last year, or ten more than in 1901. There are 21 boys for every, 79 able seamen in the British .Channel Fleet.