London’s 14,000 police receive £1,300,000 a year as pay. New York’s six thousand police get over £2,100,000 between them. A communication from the S >uth African Colonisation Society states that out of all the g rls sent by it to the Cape only 2 per cent, nave, turned out badly. For a quarter of a century the Canton Vaud, Switzerland, the authWhite Star liner Britannic has ocen in active service on the Atlantic, with the same engines and boilers, having sailed over 2i000,000 miles. In Vienna a widow has been fined two sums of 6s 8d —the iirst for allowing a flowerpot to tall out of her window, and the second for giying her maiden name to the authorities.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 4
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