MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1964, 27 December 1906, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

LONDON , Nov. 14, French maritime authorities are paying 2d to fishermen for sharks captured. _ Olio of the stone balustrades of Old Iveu- Bridge, mounted as a sun-dial, has been sold by auction. At Sondeillos," France, a three-vear-pld girl has lost her life by falling into a cauldron of boiling jam. _David Taylor, miner, was fined £2 17s 9d, costs included, or a month, at A\akefiold, for assaulting a referee at a football match.

£23-1 lias been awarded to Owen "Williams, a navvy, against a Liverpool firm of contractors as compensation for the loss of a leg, Mr. H. Giles, of Yarmouth, fishing from a boat, has taken with rod and line a record whiting, which, when weighed, scaled 311 b. Owing to the breakdown of a motor mail van on the lipping road the mailbags have had to be conveyed 12 miles on a coal cart.

During the half-year just ended -10,282 bottles of milk for infants were supplied to the public by the Lambeth municipal milk depot . Lord Wolsoley’s curios, gathered during his career in various parts of the world, are to ho offered for sale toward the end of November. Towards the relief of the sufferers from the At ingate Colliery explosion, the King has sent a cheque for a hundred guineas to the Mayor of Durham. The late Alderman Hawkins has bequeathed his library of about 1700 volumes, including some valuable and rare works, to the Borough of Southwark. Among the features of the coming hord Mayor’s show will he the presence of a number of Crimean veterans, most of whom will ho Balaclava men. • S i°° 110 tree roots are injured by the laying of the new railway hue, an T.C.C. official has boon placed on special duty on the Thames Jhmbankmeut.