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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1384, 20 February 1905, Page 3

The Auckland City Council adopted the report of. the Streets Committee, recoin- I mending the Council to establish electric 1 power works, to utilise power generated by I tho destructor, works, to be planned with a 1 view to future extension when the demand I warrants' the same; that a permanent electrical engineer be appointed and instructed to prepare plans and specifications for such works, with an estimate of cost, and that the authority of the ratepayers be obtained in dne course for raising the capital required. Welsh is spoken by 800,000 people. Tho risk of being struck by lightning is j five times greater in tho country than in cities. AraoDg women who become publio entertainers very few attain success as ventriloquists. Eight hundred thousand pounds is spent every year on tho food and clothing of indoor paupers in London. For £I2OO Mr Pierpont Morgan has secured the first piano ever made. It was constructed by an Italian in 1706. A new flower—a large yellow poppy — has been introduced into England from Thibet. It is called the “ Nooonofsis integrifolia.” Brazil is a Portuguese term derived I from braza, 11 a live coal,” an illusion to I the red dye-wood which abounds in that I country. I Coooanut shells make excellent fuel, I especially as fire-lighters, the enormous amount of oil they contain causing them

to blaze up at once. The hearing organ of animals is not always located in the head. In some grasshoppers it is in the foreleg, and appears on tho wings of many insects.