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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 972, 19 August 1903, Page 3

The Bank of Ireland, which transacts a Government business in that country, is 120 years old. On June 7 a monument to Joseph Madersperger, the inventor of the first sewing machine, was unveiled at Kufstem, in the 5 Tyrol, his birthplace. The necessary funds were raised by the Austrian sewing maohine manufacturers. The fact that the world’s supply of cork ia much less than the demand has given rise to a new industry of collecting, cleaning, and revamping corks, i Leeds Flower Mission, which is in the fifth year of its existence, has distributed among the sick poor over 97,000 bunches of flowers during the last six months. \ Among those who attended the 82nd anniversary festival of the Wesleyan Sunday School at Methwold, Norfolk (Eng.), was a lady who had been present at the first festival. It is suggested that enlistment in the Camer Corps of the Indian Army would offer the dangerous and criminal tribesmen of the Punjab a congenial and honest occupation. Twelve golden weddings are to be eelehratecl at Flobeeq, a village of 4000inbabifiinfcq in Belgium i on the same day. Two hundred and eleven relatives will attend the rejoiomge.