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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2008, 18 February 1907, Page 1

MAIL NEWS. LONDON, December 17. Jonathan Baines died during a service at tho Wesleyan chapel at Holbeach. Influenza has broken out at Eton College, and many boys are daily falling victims to it. A United States halfpenny of 1804 was sold for £l9 Is at an auction at I’lliladelphia recently. The Huddersfield Board of Guardians suggest tho formation of a children’s police court at Huddersfield. At tho ago of ninety, Mr Richard Pomfrct, who occupied one farm for sixty-tv.o years, has died at Mollor, near Blackburn. Tho expert committee which has been appointed to examine St. Paul’s Cathedral will meet for the first time shortly after Christmas. Her most gracious Majesty the Queen has just sent the Royal Waterloo Hospital, S.E., 120 boxes of toffee for the use of tho little suf-

X-rays arc now being used by the fishers on the coast of Ceylon for distinguishing the oysters containing pearls without opening the shells. Sir Kichard X’aget, Burt’s estate of about 400 acres, two miles from the centre of Wolverhampton, is to. bo the site of a garden suburb. After driving ten miles in the dark, a farmer living near Falmouth discovered on reaching homo that a lion was perched on the axle of the trap. .. . Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is sitting for his portrait to Mr J. Colin Forbes, who is painting a presentation picture for the National Liberal Club.

During a case in tile Tower Bridge Police Court, the word “whisperer” was quoted as having been used by an alleged thief —meaning a spy or informer. it is proposed to establish a large model village on the outer fringes of Wolverhampton on an estate of about 400 acres belonging to Sir R. H. Paget, Bart. The League of Mercy, of which the Prince of Wales is Grand President, will be able to hand over to the King’s Hospital fund about £18,700 as the result of its year’s operations. Speaking at the meeting of _ the Metropolitan Prisoners’ Aid Society, Sir Ralph Littler said the short-sen-tence system was a curse to the prisoner and a curse to the country. Lord Ludlow, the treasurer of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, lias received £IOOO from an anonymous donor for the privilege of naming in perpetuity a bed in the hospital. The King has sent a donation of £23 to the Keepers’ Aid Society, and the Prince of Wales, who is patron of the Society, lias become an annual subscriber of five guineas. Mr Henry Adams, for many years managing director of the Refuge Insurance Company, to which post lie rose from the position of a working miner, has just died at Blackpool in liis seventv-first year. Writing in the current number of the St. John’s (Truro) Parish Magazine, the vicar says: “The string band concert was a great success. This is written four days before it comes off, but it is a safe thing to say.” About £13,350 was realised at Christie’s rooms by a collection of jewels and rare old lace. A beautiful specimen of the groat yellow-shank, an American bird, has been shot at the Scilly Isles. Two enormous cabbages, weighing together 351 b., have just been exhibited at a show at Totncs, Devon. Charged with attempted suicide, a Wards worth boy aged fourteen pleaded that he was tired of life. At Harwich the first motor lifeboat on the East Coast has been put into regular service after several weeks’' satisfactory trials. At Horsham the Earl of Caledon, of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been fined £25 for driving ;i motorcar to the danger of the public. Fifteen motors have been destroyed by a fire which did damage to the estimated amount of £4OOO at the St. Vincent Motor Garage, Glasgow. Two men, charged with fighting, wore bound over at Southport, and a third man, who said he attempted to separate them,' was fined 5s and costs. Entertaining the King and Queen of Norway at the Guildhall recently cost the city £1,777, which was £8 loss than the amount voted for the purpose. Two branches of the Legion of frontiersmen have been inaugurated in the Orange River Colony—one at Blomfontein and the other at Thabanchu.

Mr. Mncpliorson, M.P., speaking at' an I.L.P. meeting at -Preston, ■said that a member of that party had addressed him on an I.L.P. postcard as “Dear Cur.” After forty-one years’ service, Mr David Saines, superintendent of the V Division of the Metropolitan Police, retires from the forep. at the end of the year“We take infinite pains to arrange the cases so that sufficient for the day may ho the business thereof,” said Sir William Selfe at the Marylebone County Court recently. The death is announced from Paris of M. Ferdinand Brunetiero, the distinguished French Academician, and editor of tho “Revue des Deux Mondes,” at tho age of fifty-six. As the members of the Newbury Voluteer Fire Brigade were about to assemble for their annual dinner and presentation of prizes, they were called to a fire in a neighboring village. An inquest was lipid at Loudon Hospital on Daniel Colter, five years old, who died from burns. It is supposed that he had been trying to light a cigarette when he set fire to himself.

Mr James Haldane, of Edinburgh, a well-known Scottish merchant and banker, and uncle of the Secretary for War, who died on November 30, left personal estate to the value of £82,734. Cotton employers and employed in Manchester have decided that In future th? holiday season shall extend over 116 hours a year. Hitherto seasons have varied from 8G to 111 hours. Five shillings and nineponco per week for life has been awarded to a hoy by the Edmonton County Court as compensation for losing both his feet by an accident while at work. Bermondsey guardians have addressed a ’stern censure to the workhouse barber, who, disagreeing with some sentiments expressed by an inmate upon whom ho was operating, pushed the lathering brush down his throat'. Lord Curzon arrived at Liverpool yesterday from New York, and proceeded to Kedleston. In reply to an enquiry, lie declined to su.y whether ho would contest liis former division, Southport, at the next election, but said be was prepared to re-enter Parliament in the event of a favorable opportunity. One of the attractions at a recent Hull bazaar was a billiard match of 2000 up. i • Bosky Hell, a native woman, lias died at Grahamstown, Cape Oniony, at tiie age of 115 ye-tirs, The Prince of Wales has sent a present of game for the patients of St. George’s Hospital. A cat has made its home in a disused thrush’s nest at the top of a pear tree in a garden near Hounslow.

Thirty men have been drowned during tin* last three weeks while engaged in herring fishing off the Norwegian coast. At an inquest- at Southwark on the body of a widow a doctor said deceased’s heart weighed 290 z., whereas the normal weight was 9oz. On the Great Northern Railway a motor-train overran Grimsby Town station, but beyond receiving a shaking no passengers were injured. Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain has ordered that at her expense 1000 rations are daily to be given to the poor during the winter season. At an inquest at Honlow on a married woman named Carter, it was stated she fell into a copper of hailing water at the Hotdqw Grange Laundry. ilrs. .Mary King, of 0 Springside. Louth, Lines., who has just attained her 100th birthday, was able to go out to a family gathering in celebration of the occasion. “What is needed to-day is the discipline of self-reliance and not the discipline of the barrack square.”— From a speech by Lord Roberts on modern warfare. The doctors of Poplar have given notice that for the future their surgeries will he open on Sundays only in the morning, and will be closed during the whole of the evening. With intent to defraud an insurance company, Edward McGuinessj of Lisburn, set fire to his publichouso, and he was sentenced to four .years’ poual servitude at Belfast-.