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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 221, 25 September 1901, Page 1

Russia is opening new savings banks at the rate of six hundred a year. Eleven out of the 22 British dukes have at present no heirs to succeed them. One hundred and twenty firemen are required to feed the furnaces of a firstclass Atlantic steamer.

Sir Wolfe Barry estimates the loss caused by the congestion of the London streets at £2,154,000 a year. The “ elephant beetle ” of Venezuela is the largest insect in the world. A fullgrown one weighs about half a pound. James Wilson was charged at Brentford with stealing milk from a cow. Ho was lying down, and catching the milk in his mouth.

In Zante, one of the lonian Islands, there is a petroloum spring which has been known for nearly 3000 years. It is mentioned by Herodotus. Mr Jack Boden, of The Friars, Derby, died at Rugby Hospital from injuries received to the head and throat at tho Rugby polo tournament.

A vessol of 200 tons carries 180 fathoms of cable and an anchor weighing three tons. A ship of 2000 tons has an 18-ton anchor and 300 fathoms of cable.

A despatch from Algiers says that tho eleven-year-old daughter of a district governor was carried off by a panther before the eyes of tho parents. Seven out of every 10,000 inhabitants of the United States are deaf and dumb. This afiliction is much less common among tho negroes than among the whites. At a late meeting of the Manchester City Council it was resolved to purchase Heaton Park and the adjoining fringe of land for £230,000 from the Earl of Wilton. Miss Helen Gladstone, formerly viceprincipal of Newnham College, Cambridge, has accepted the office of warden of the Women’s University Settlement, Southwark.

The Archbishop of Canterbury will preach the sermon at the special service to be held in Winchester Cathedral at the

time of the commemoration of King Alfred.

By order of the Minister of the Interior and on the grounds of public morality no barmaids will be allowed in the Buda Pest cafes who are not more than 40 years of age. A workman who had been buried alive at Chartres by tho falling-in of the sides of a well in which ho was engaged at work was rescued after being in the ground for 117 hours. It has been decided to select a limited number of the Imperial Yeomanry who have served in South Africa for service on the permanent staff of the Imperial Y r eomanry at home. The Father Superior of the St. Bernard Monastery has built a series of refuge huts, scattered around the dangerous points of the mountain, and in telephonic communication with the hospice. Dr J. St. Thomas Clarke, one of the oldest physicians in Leicester, died suddenly a few days ago. Last October he was shot whilst in the street by a former patient, and his life was then despaired of. A curious effect of lightning was observed at Florenville lately. A fir tree by the road thence to Izel was struck at the top, and ribbon of bark stripped from the trunk in a spiral line of almost mathematical regularity. Aluminium has just been employed for the construction of a new fire-proof curtain to be used in theatres. The curtain is 60ft wide by 54ft high, is composed of aluminium sheets one-twelfth of an inch thick, and weighs 40001 b. The protest of Pastor Collins against Sunday funerals opens up a very interesting question : Why not establish a Union of Clergymen and bring the Auckland Church officers before the Conciliation Board ? It cannot be argued that the clergymen are not overworked. We all know they are. Moreover, their pay, with scarcely a solitary exception, is inadequately small, while an immense amount of extra labor is unquestionably cast upon the shoulders of these already over-burdened workers by the practico of Sunday funerals. The parsons are quite as much entitled to the benefits of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as are the miners or the cab-drivers. Then, why should they not have a turn ? Observer,

To look at the list of accused persons in the police and higher courts in Queensland, any dispassionate person would see that “ White Australia ” is a delusion and a snare. There are Chinese, Afghans, Cingalese, Japs, Malays, Javanese, and almost every conceivable nationality under the sun upon these lists, and when the poor kanaka is taken into consideration he is quite a minor circumstance compared with the other dusky sinners.— Sydney Newsletter. A telegram sent from Mangaweka last Friday states: —“News has just been received of a fatal accident to the Manga-weka-Bangiwahia mail man, 1 Micky ’ Sullivan. From what I can learn Sullivan left Bangiwahia in his mail trap about dark on Tuesday evening, and yesterday morning was found dead down an embankment, some eight miles from Mangaweka. The trap was upturned and the horse had broken loose. From the evidence and position in which the body was found poor Sullivan must have lingered several hours, ono of his legs was smashed above the thigh, and he had several bruises about the face and body. Several years ago the deceased worked in different parts of the Wairarapa. He leaves a wife and family, the eldest being about 15 years. At the inquest the following verdict with a rider was passed : That the jury is of opinion that Michael Sullivan, deceased, came by his death through his horse and trap going over the roadside, and the trap falling on him while he was drunk, and that when he left the hotel he was not in a fit state to drive.”

It seems to me that the Treasurer is a sort of political Oliver Twist—the more we give him the more he wants. —Mr Massey.

While Alfred tho Great, for centuries past, Has slept in his tomb of rest, Old England has grown to be ever so vast, Till now she is greatest and best. May her sons never have to suffer defeat, But hold their dear island secure. Their healths they can keep and coughs always beat, With Woods’ Great Peftebjiest Cure.