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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1054, 23 November 1903, Page 1

u .„ recent excavagations at Orosvar, near Cedenburg, Hungary, graves have been found containing the skeletons of old Roman colonists. The .Government of Mexico has prohibited the landing of Chines?, at the ports on the western coast on the ground that they have insanitary habits. The New Forett, in Hampshire, is the larges). English forest, containing 60,000 acres. The Forest of Dean was 22,500 acres, and Windsor Forest 14,000. in the countries of the English Postal Union, 50,000,000 of letters were undelivered in 1901, and oi 26,000,000 of these eyen the senders could not be traced. Statistics issued by the London County, Council show that inquests were •fold last year on 481 infants who were suffocated while in bed with their parents. Dubois de Luchet. an opera singci, lias in accordance with a last wish, been cremated at Mayence to the strains of the “ fire mulic ” from Wagner’s “ Walkure.” TO obtain possession of a metal watch valued at half a crown, a Stockholm dragoon brutally murdered an out-porter in the immediate vicinity of the barracks. Found, guilty of 200 cases of cruelty to subordinates, a German corporal at Fraikfort has been sentenced to a year and a half’s imprisonment and degradation.In Austria, the law obliges miners and mine-owners to contribute to a nensiou fund* .