GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2213, 10 June 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

The Mn.li.nvnl “Holy Carpet”. (flays n toleyVam from Cairo) left Medina on film 4th inst.,. and will arrive at ft I DciU about tlio 15th. It is probable that tlio Emir el Had] has been enabled to nvako the necessary arrangement*-, owing to the fact that a sum of a...may was despatched to him .from due Egyptian Treasury a short time ago. The “Holy Car.pct” or Pavilion, is annually taken bv the caravan of Egyptian pilgrims to .Mecca on a camel of one particular pedigree, and is brought (back, to Egypt mod divided among tlho pilgrims. On this occasion the escort of tlio oivrpot ivoro attacked by Jk>dotiiiis after setting out from Mecca on their return, and wore forced to turn hack. When your throat is dry and husky, n Zymolo Tro'key will relievo that disagreeable feeling. Zymolo Trokoys givo tlio mouth n cleansed and rotreshed sensation.

“Patriotism," apparently, is cultivated 'ini- the United States to some purpose. Somo may oven say it ceases to bo a virtue. M. Godard, tho French competitor in the New York to Haris motor race, arrived in San Francisco on 25th March a few hours after it.be American ear. A press telegram reports: —He bitterly complains of patriotic farmers hindering his progress. Staying at an hotol a criminal choked the crack-box with sand, and ‘lie lrnd to await the arrival of new parts. Then the tyres were stabbed, tools stolen, clothing misappropriated, and when any aid was .required exorbitant charges were made, itefusals to pay extortionate prices resulted in the police holding Godard’s cir until the money was exacted! He placed his car on the railway train at Ogden, for which lie does not think he .is disqualified. The most sensational pant of Godard’s allegations .aro that he 'has photographs signed by a mayor of an Indiana town showing the American car travelling on a freight train, and at other stages being assisted by other power than 'its own. Pale, norvous women with little strength and failing appetite aro among thoso who receive the greatest benofit from Stearns 1 Wine, tho matchless tonic and strength restorer. Try it. Little sympathy will be felt for tlio wealthy freshman, an ostentatious “bounder,” who was lately “ragged” by the students of New York University .for wearing too loud clothes, driving .up to the university in a magnificent motor-car with a liveried servant in attendance, and generally “comporting himself in an arrogant way” towards his seniors- The sentence, which was duly executed, was ■a ducking in the college pond. After escaping from tho pond, witlli the new suit of gorgeous pattern utterly ruined, the freshman rushed to the Chancellor with a complaint of tho indignity inflicted upon him. Afterwards he arrived at tlio university accompanied by his father arid a large force of armed detectives, and threatened to Wlioot any student who attempted to exclude him from the university. The 'Chancellor held a solemn inquisition into the affair, and suspended the ringleaders. A general strike followod, and the class-rooms are vacant —s.ive for one solitary freshman.

It would appear that the workers who complain that prices have risen while their incomes have not, are in distinguished company. The Berlin correspondent of the Chronicle gives publicity to a report that it is intended to introduce a Bill in the Prussian .Diet providing for an increase of the Civil List of the Emperor las King of Prussia. His Majesty now receives from the State an annual sum of £785,965. The reason given for tho present demand is that the cost of living ha 6 increased of late years to ouch an extent that the Imperial Family finds it difficult to meet expenses. Tho .Radical papers are not particularly charmed Iby the proposal. They recall the fact that the King is the greatest landowner in Prussia, aud that no one knows how enormous'his private fortune is. The Crown, they say, owns fifty-two castles and country houses. Colonel Cody (“Buffalo Bill”) is reported to be suffering from 'a nervous breakdown at Chicago, 'and in view