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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1003, 23 September 1903, Page 1

Three lions have been killed in one day within 10 miles of Bulawayo. Their skins fetched £ls each. The Imperial Colonies Club has taken possession of new premises at Doverstreet, Piccadilly. Ten Shipley (Yorkshire) anti-vac-cinators who refused to pay fineß were arrested and sent to prison. Deposits of copper, said to be the richest in the world, have been discovered at Tinguindin, Mexico. The new wing of Camberwell Hospital, capable of accommodating 800 patients, has cost £200,000. Fire has done damage to the extent of £IO,OOO to an automobile factory at New Bochelle, near New York. A new Bussian cruiser, with engines of 16,000 horse power, will bo launched at St. Petersburg this month. Sevon hundred persons are employed in cigarette-making in Glasgow. The industry there dates from 1888. Liverpool Corporation has started a scheme of re housing the working classes which will cost £1,000,000.

During the first three months of 1903 there were 827 persons killed in railway accidents in the Unitod States. The purchase has been sanctioned of a motor-car for the use of the Notts County surveyor, at a cost of H 391. The presence of the fleot at Kingstown during the King’s visit meant the expenditure of L 30.000 in the town. Over 1,000,000 head of game were shot in Hungary last year, including stags, bears, wolves, and wild cats. At Yarmouth (Eng). Police Court a widow was fined 2s for causing an obstruction at the railway station by touting for lodgers. President Loubet is reported to have stated that he will never again be a candidate for the post of head of the Frenoh nation. , Fearing his punishment, an Austrian soldt ier who was left behind in a village where his regiment had stayed overnight, shot himself.

Be those two joyous idiots who recently boated across the Waimangu geyser. Where the gamble came in was in the fact that the geyser gives absolutely no warning when it is going to spout. It is quiet one moment, and the next it is throwing a column of hot water and general Sheol 1000 or 1500 feet in the air. If it had exploded when the two fools were crossing, they and their boat would probably have gone up a quarter of a mile, and when a boat and two fools fall on an admiring ! crowd from that height it is bad for the admiring crowd.—Bulletin. The other day, the remains of a man who had died of thirst two years before were discovered on Caradoc station, just outside the Mildura boundary, within cooeo of a tank and within a few miles of the river. The body was identified by his widow in Mildura, after two years in the mallee scrub, by the contents of his swag, his bill, and the clothes he had been weiring. He had left his home, bluey up, after a tiff with his wife, and the immeasureable distances swallowed him.