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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 503, 16 August 1902, Page 4

A Bom an bowl of Samian make, said to be 2000 years old, lias been brought up from the sea bottom off Beachy Head by a Brightlirig sea oyster dredger. The Bath City Council proposo establishing a reserve class in the police force into which constables on attaining their pensions may be drafted, receiving a reduced wage in addition to their pension. The Hadda Mullah is reported to have been succeeded by t-ho Sufi Mullah, and the Ameer of Afghanistan has ordered the Governor of Jelallabad to dissuade the former’s followers from visiting him, and to direct them to pay their respects to the Sufi Mullah. The longest bridge in the world crosses the Yellow Sea, near Sangang, China. It is called the Lion Bridge, and its length is five and one-quarter miles. It is supported by 300 huge arches, is 70ft. above the water, and is enclosed in an iron network. One thousand barrels of beer—36,ooo gallons—were dispatched from Burton by Messrs Bass and Co. for the King’s dinner to the poor. The beer was valued at about £3OOO, weighs 250 tons, and was conveyed to London in some 60 railway trucks. M. Henri Rochefort, editor of the Intransigeant, has informed the French authorities that the Humbert family left Paris on May 7, and embarked on a yacht at St. Nazaire for Colon, Central America. Alter being nine weeks in hospital with a fish-bone in his throat, Private William Rogerson, of the Ist Life Guards, went home to Winsford, Cheshire, apparently convalescent, but was again taken ill and died within two hours of asphyxia. All that remained of bank notes to the value of £4B which had been devoured by a goat have been presented to the National Bank of Belgium, and duly cashed. Between January 1 and April 1, 266 persons were wholly or partially boycotted in the districts which have since been proclaimed in Ireland, states a Parliamentary return. Football is a manly game, That hardens muscle, knits the frame, And makes New Zealand's hardy youth Our pride and strength, and that’s the truth. Bad coughs and colds attack the strong, As much the weak that’s sure, Let both—they never can go wrong— Take WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE,