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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 972, 19 August 1903, Page 4

During a Whit-Sunday service in the village churoh at Altendorf, Maehren, Austria, lightning struck the high altar. A child was killed and 12 members of the congregation were rendered unconscious.

Recently the officials of the Thibetan frontier received orders not to allow any iron or steel to cross the frontier. In one case a small piece of sheet-iron had to be left behind, The hydrogen atom has hitherto been considered the smallest particle of matter, but the incandescent particles in the vacuum of a Crookes tube are but onethousandth a 3 large. The Rev. P. Lewis, a Baptist minister of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, is in the peculiar position of being one of the managers of the Roman Catholic school of that town.

Two boys were captured on the|St. Lawrence Biver, Canada, after having set up a camp on an island. They were playing at pirates in real earnest, and had a car-load of stolen goods.

An expedition has started for the Himalayas with the intention of climbing to the highest point in the world, the peak of Mount Everest. The ascent is expected to occupy several years.

A dozen students from the mechanical engineering department at Columbia University, U.S.A., have arranged to work as oilers, stokers, and cleaners on board the ocean steamers during the summer.

Henri Teutch, a man of 89, who was arrested in Paris as a vagabond, has been proved to be the son of a millionaire. His family disowned him because he had squandered ,£IOO,OOO.

Mr James Holland, of New York, inventor of the submarine torpedo-boat, is now devoting his attentions to an airship which he thinks will revolutionise aerial navigation. His machine is to be lifted and propelled solely by wings, the power being applied manually and by treadles. Its weight will only be 801 b, and the machine can be strapped botween a man’s shoulders. It can be detached instantly in case of necessity.

The following wail is from Auckland : A few days ago, in replying to Mr Edwlds, Sir J. Ward, Postmaster-General, said: " The proposal for a post office at Grey Lynn is premature ; ho thought the district was well served at present with the Newtown, Ponsonby, and Archhill post offices.” Now, people are hunting round to find the Archill post office. There is a telegraph bureau at Archill, where you cannot post a letter or buy a stamp. Had the place been in the South Island, Ponsonby would have had a brick post office, with clock showing the hour, at the Three Lamps, instead of a baker’s shop altered to make a post office. Under a’now law Anarchists of foreign birth cannot now become naturalised citizens of the United States, and every applicant must make an affidavit that he is not an Anarchist.

On knocking down a lady in Paris with his car an American motorist at once halted, helped her into the vehicle, and took her to the doctor’s, where he obtained a certificate that no bones were broken.

The Judge on the Bench, the lordly

M.P., The man on the stage, whoever hi

be, The lawyer so grave, the jolly. ‘JatK Tar, The stem-visaged soldier who’s 'been

in the war, The hard-working man, the knowing M.D., All happen on this one point to

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