NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1350, 10 January 1905, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL.

INTERESTING SUMMARY.

London, Nov. 25. The Arohbishop of Westminster has refussd to allow the United Irish league braDohes in London to bold their meetings in Catholic sehools Mr F. Riches, who has just celebrated his golden wedding at Tasburgh, Norfolk has fifty-nine descendants, and has lived in the same house for seventy-two years In order to give a little pleasure to his nephew, a child of two, Charles Woodyer, of Surbiton, took him for a ride on a cycle, the infant being fastened on the handlebar of the maohine. Owin'* to a sideslip the rider fell, and the child received fatal injuries. Addressing a crowded meeting at Ox ford Town Hall recently, the Bishop -of London said that the real danger in a great city like tbs metropolis was that I civilisation and religion might bo over taxed, and people would die like dogs in n Christian country. A Btracge wild animal was shot on the South Denes, at Yarmouth. It was at I first supposed to be an Arctic fox, but it I has more of the characteristics of a wolf I It is thought that itesoapea from one of I the many Scandinavian vessels now in fchn I harbor. I

Tuesday's sudden cold killed ten ner sons outright in the Paris streets, and at least as many wjm picked up at the point of death. Snow has been falling inces santly in tha Tyrol for thirty hours. Telographio and telephonio communications are interrupted at many points, and tha train service to Vienna and Italy is stopped. At the Brenner Pass a train has been snowed up. j The endowing of every Englishman with a physical training of a military oharacter—that Is, with an olemer'ftarv knowledge of drill and of the nse o£*th£ -i®r~? ould . aot aa a bulwark against the militarism of the Continent rather than as an enoouragement. If the population as a whole knew the elements of the sol. dier s business, there would be far less fear than now of onr being hurried at a moment of panic into some unnecessary and dangerous scheme of compulsory service —Spectator. ' i