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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 1

The largest postage stamp ever issued was an American stamp for newspapers and parcels, value 2Jd. It was din hv 2in. England’s oldest organ is in Rarnsbury Street Congregational Church. Islington. It was built in 1660 for Westminster Abbey. A Dover (England'; butcher, rather than pay fines imposed upon him for the non-vaccination of his child, went to orison for seven days. Scotland Yard authorities report that 34,000 people were lost in London last year, and much the same number in the preceding year. , Five shillings was the fine imposed on a boy at Cromeri England, who slabbed a donkey with a penknife to “ make it go,” In order to advertise its goods, a German firm Is enclosing a bank-note of the value of 10s in one of every 500 bales of wool sent out. The King has recently purchased from the. heirs of the late John Brown his residence at Balnachoil, near Balmoral, given him by. Queen .Victoria, A company with a capital of thousand pounds has b*"'- two Paris to uianur-" floated in paratus .aomire a surgical appalled a mechanical leech, de..u ned to supersede the old method of drawing blood. Thus Miss Constance Barmcoat on the present state of the labor market in Neiy Zealand :—“ On all hands niy ■attention was called to the scarcity of labor. The only people I heard of as asking unsuccessfully for work were obvious tramps, who preferred to beg rather than to earn a meal and save money by .half-a-day’s work Let it be clearly understood that I am speaking of New Zealand only, anil of artisan and not of clerical labor of any kind. At present there seems to me to be too much work in New Zealand ; thev are too prosperous, and a little more struggling for life would in some ways be salu tary. As for emigrating/ I did not • hear anything of it. New Zealand is pre-eminently a working iuanis coun try—perhaps too much so. That the working man and his interests pxedominate must strike any observer., 1