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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1004, 24 September 1903, Page 1

Tho Melbourne City Council has voted a further sum of £3OQ for the destruction of rats. A Chinaman at Yetholme, New South Wales, was horribly crushed by a falling tree the other day. A constable was roughly handled by some larrikins at Ultimo, New South Wales, and hqd to draw his revolver. A woman named Ada Turner swallowed a quantity of Paris green at Eedfern, Sydney, and died the same night. A deficiency of £4O so preyed on the mind of the secretary of the Ipswich Friends’ Adult Goose and Christmas Club that he killed himself with a carving knife. ■

Several handkerchiefs and other small articles which belonged to the late Queen Victoria, collected by one of her personal servants, have been sold by auction. The Mayor of Kingston-on-Thames has unveiled a stained glass window in the Town-hall to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Coronation of James 1., the first King of both England and Scotland. Six guineas damages has been recovered by Mr Haite, an artist, from the Continental Gallery for marking a picture of his “ sold ” when no sale had taken place. A large locomotive building firm! at Cassel, Germany, in its report for 1902, admits having exported in that year £IOO,OOO worth of railway engines under cost price. It is a criminal offence in Hungary to lend money at usurious rates, and a Pressburg money-lender was sen- ] fenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for that offence recently. Mr Ailwyn Eellowes stated in the House of Commons that in 1902 there were 10,551,000 acres of arable land and 10,807,000 acres of permanent pasture in the United Kingdom. Altogether the London County Council has provided house accommodation for 19,624 persons since 1593 without any charge on the rotes. At Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, o publio vote is to be taken whether an offer of L4OOO for a library from Mr. Carnegie should be Owing to the decline in population, Dunwich, Suffolk, has been for two years unable to find a crew for its lifeboat, which is to be removed.