NEWS ITEMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10140, 10 November 1910, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

More than one hundred'convicts in Winchester Prison have been suffering from a disease, closely resembling ptomaine poisoning. A woman has died at Eastbourne who has spent the whole eighty-nine years of her life in the workhouse. It is estimated that she cost the ratepayers £I6OO. JVIr G. Tovey, aged seventy-eight, was one of the players in an all-day cricket match between Pewscy and CoHingbrmnie plaved at Pewsov, England. A man who found a necklace worth £SOO at Stamford, unaware of its value, sold it to his landlady for a pint and a half of beer and threepence. For advertising home employment fraudulently, when his intention was, it is alleged, merely to extort money in the shape of deposits, a man has been sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. - In connection with the recent-bur-glary at Birmingham, when oxyacotylene blow lamps, electric alarms and other scientific contrivances were used, the police -have arrested three London men. The guillotine ordered in France by the Chinese Government has reached its destination, and hrr, been installed in the new prison, which has just been built at Pokin. At Burnley, a public house, where prices have been raised as an alleged result of new duties, was picketed by disgusted customers, who stood at the door and advised intending patrons to go elsewhere. Mrs Ann Saunders, of Wootton, Isle of Wight, celebrated her 101st birthday on September 20 th by threading a needle and hemming a* handkerchief without the aid of spectacles. She has a good appetite and a special liking for fat pork. Cases of cholera over the whole Russian Empire up. to September j number 154,445, and 74,732 deaths have ensued. St. Petersburg has just experienced a heat wave, which led to a recrudescence of the dis- ] ease. The Birmingham Small Arms Company has secured an order from the Australian Government to supply a further 20,000 rifles for the' equipment of the Cadet Corps of the Commonwealth. The first order of 50,000 of these weapons was placed last February.

Father Ollivier, the Dominican monk and famous preacher, died in Paris on September 21st. His sermon at Notre Dame, Paris, aTter the charity bazaar fire, which he described as Divine punishment for the sins of France, caused him to be relieved of his charge. During a workhouse funeral in Kentish Town a wheel of a large hearse, containing the mourners and five coffiins, collapsed on the way to the cemetery. The coffiins ware transferred to another vehicle, and the mourners continued their journey by train. The Church Missionary Society has received an anonymous gift of £4OOO for the purpose of sending out a number of new missionaries, who, owing to the lack of funds ,were likely to have been kept back from the mision field this year.

Gold bullion, valued at £11,500, forming part of a consignment of £od,ooo from the Washington-Alas-ka Bank at Fairbanks to the Dexter Horton National Bank at Seattle, was stolen in transit on the steamer Humboldt, lead being substituted.

The Admiralty has decided to sell as obsolete the following ships:— Howe, battleship, 10,300 tons, built in ISBB, cost £640,000; Edinburgh, battleship, built in 1887, cost £750,000, and the special service vessels Beaver and Cockatrice.

Two cows on a Gloucester farm, although in perfect condition, were not giving the supply of milk expected. One day the cowman found one of the animals lying down quite contentedly, while two large grass snakes were sucking at the udders.

Twenty-two. stowaways were landed at Fishguard Harbour on September 20. Seven from a steamer bound for New Zealand, were sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. The others were released, and prowled about the neighbourhood begging.

At Hatfield a society provides tramps '-'with games and tea," and as a result, according to a district auditor of - the Local Government Board, the number of the local union ,already abnormally large, is rapidly increasing. He states also that the inclusion of porridge in the workhouse menu is a further attraction. ,

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