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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 983, 1 September 1903, Page 1

At Bremen a new cruiser has been launched for the German Navy, with engines of 10,000 b.p., giving her a speed of 22 knots an hour. Messrs Christie last month sold for £37 a copy of Buskin’s “ Stones of Venice,” which was presented by the author to Charles Dickens. Several cinerary urns of the Neolithic type have been found at Portland . containing human ashes with small quantities of wood charcoal. Mr Anthony Hope, who has just been married, has a new novel in the press entitled “ In Double Harness.” At Kiefl, Bussia, a Jew said to be 121 years old has died recently. He remembered having seen Napoleon I. Athletic exercise increases the biceps of a woman, but reduces the size of her feet, says an American paper. Barbadoes is attempting to grow cotton, and experts state that the samples to hand, so far, aro much superior to the American article. "Within a short time all the Bed Star line (Belgian) steamers will be provided with the Marconi wireless telegraphy apparatus,