NEWS BY MAIL.
SEARCH FOR WIFE. TOKIO, August 3. A Japanese giant 7ft. 2in. tall and weighing -l'i Stone, lias aroused considerable interest here as no woman can he found in Japan who is willing to hewinie his wit’n He married, it is stated, when - . But his wife died shortly alter the marriage The Japan Times declares that the giant who is Jiow 11, has searched the country in vain, from one end to the other for a w ife.
pnliKsT FIRMS IN FRANCK PARIS, August 3
purest tins continue all over France, owing to the intense heat, which has reduced the undergrowth almost to the State of tinder over wide expanses of laud. Near Met/., artillery practice set a long tract oT forest land ablaze, despite Die elforts of peasants and villagers. These villages are still threatened by the lire, which has not yet died out. u Bordeaux during a cycle meetnif the grass inside the track caught lire i„ a few minutes tin* stand,-which loot been hurriedly emptied of spectators was ablaze, tin- meeting being abandoned. Other fires have been signalled near Versailles, where a shell (lump has exploded and at l.iotat, near Paris, where some hundreds of acres of pine wood is now burning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1921, Page 3
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