GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1965, 28 December 1906, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

Dr. Y\ vim AVestcott declared at an inquest at Bethnal Green on a woman ninety years old that it was very rare to hear of a person living to such a great age outside the workhouse. 'Three draper's assistants, charged at --.iiMin with intimidation, were advised by the Lord Chief Justice to plead guilty. 'They declined to do so, and the jury acquitted them. At Uffington, near Stamford, a boy named GoUwell lias been killed by the charge from a gun which was knocked off the wall by a banging door and exploded us it 1011.

In Macclesfield a burglar broke twice into the same house. On tlie second occasion he took away a pair of boots which he had placed ready for removal before and had forgotten. At Rosthwaite, in the Barroivdale Valley, Keswick, a double wedding lias just been celebrated, which is the first marriage that has taken place there for nineteen years. During an inquest at Islington oil Emilio Baker, medical evidence showed that the deceased’s heart was double the usual size, and the lungs did not resemble lungs at ail.

lienri Got, Bft 7in fall, and known as it jfiencli giant, lias advertised Unit lie will marry any lady who proposes lo liiiu liming ins engagement an siio riackiiey Empire.

.’vi i.w Goucv.mvo Ward, i.uw descnucu as a charming ami genial oht laiiy, icuimed to tao stage in imiiuou tne otiier day to piay the part ui die oil lid (,»ueeu .Motlier m a classical play at aoiidoa AdoJpin, entrli.jU xjic \ Argili Goddess.'’ aiiss v, aid, wlio is uorderuig upon iU, is ueserioed as acting uiui magnificent power, dignity amt pathos.

Sir Gilbert Farker, lU.l\, speaking as the guest oi the Colonial Club, at O:\iord, said the itinpire should mean more to us than the celebration el mtoiir ana virtues 01 our mi ponce and khaki sentinels, it should mean eu-oporation and alliance oi interests and common responsibility. The Umlor-Secrctary lor the Colonies should realise—perhaps he did—that his constituency tvas not Manchester, hut iUuiTunibidgoe or Montreal, or Magersioiitein, or Manawatu. The colonist should realise that he got much from lihigiand’s protection, and that the .British workman, through the navy, paid cash ior colonial security, and he should be prepared to give generously in return lor what he got.

About two o’clock on Saturday a bush tire broke out in New Town, i-iauriiiiu, caused, it is believed, by sparks from the railway engine settling in the uiiderscrub. .Fortunately there was only a slight breeze blowing, and this in a direction opposite to the town proper, otherwise the fire might have swept Ihe town, everything being at present very dry. Fully a dozen people.were rendered homeless by tile fire. Numbers of the residents pulled their camps down to save destruction by fire. A large staff of willing bushmen got to work with their axes and prevented the fire front spreading in the direction of the thickest populated places. The. bush-