GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2204, 30 May 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

The* Jloiimnnian Government line initiated a most rigorous persecution of tho Jews. Loon! authorities have rocoivcd instructions to expel thousands of Jews from districts in which they 'hnvo resided for many years, oven for generations.

In answer to n suffragist petition, asking tho authorities to liconso women ns chauffeurs, tho Mayor of Chicago recently declared that no woman was physically lit to run a motor oar.

People convicted at Lanelly (Wales) of drunkenness, arc placed under tho charge of a Salvation Army supervision oflioer, uml forbidden to enter a publichouso for tlirco months.

Oil tho ovo of his departure for St. Petersburg, tho Authors’ Club gave a dinner in.honor of tho ex-priest and political reformer, Father Potroft', who has boon exiled from Itussia. For this tho Perfect of Polico fined tho president of tho club £IOO and tho organiser of tho dinner £SO for holding nil unauthorised gnthoring.

Tho Chicago City Council has determined to exterminate tho cats in that city, estimated to number about a million, because they are allogod to convoy diphtheria germs. Tho women of tho city nro opposing tho slaughter, declaring that tho .resulting plaguo of mico and rats would bo far worse than tho cats.

For hoarseness which follows straining of tho voice, nothing is so soothing or effective as Zymole Trokoys. A trial will plonso you.

"■ Tho British workmen engaged in constructing tho Lobito J3ay railway complain (says tho Express correspondent) that three of their number wore illegally arrested and brutally whipped by tlio Portuguese with tho sjambok, a whip of rhinoceros hide, which is customarily used to flog natives.

Headaches of every kind yield to Steam’s Headache Curo in a lew minutes. These tiny, tasteless wafers bring certain relief from almost every kind of pain. Used wherever heads' ache.—Advfc.

A committee has been appointed by tho Kussian Ministry of Finance, consisting of representatives of the Ministries of Commerce, War, Finance, Pubhc Institution, and Foreign Affairs, to considor measures for the introduction of instruction in Japanese in tho elemontary and luiddlo schools, and for student voyages to Japan by persons who are learning Japanese, to enablo them, by their own efforts, to perfect tlioir knowledge in that language.

Why submit to dull aching of nerve or muscle, or the acute pains of 'neuralgia, toothache, or lumbagpP Witch’s Oil—that penetrating, soothing fluid—is a wonderfully quick remedy for pain. Witch’s Oil destroys pain .almost instantaneously. Quick in action and permanent in result. WITCH’S OIL stands in tho very front rank as tho King of Pain.

Fifth Avenue and Broadway (writes tho “Times” Now York correspondent) were en feto on the night of 7th April on the occasion of the holding of a novel automobile parade to celebrate the first decade of the industry. An immense crowd witnessed a procession of nearly two thousand cars, representing tho earliest and latest types, which extended five miles and was marked by .all the spectacular features of a carnival. The American automobile industry has rapidly, grown since 1898. The output to id ay is estimated at fifty thousand cars, .and tho,capital invested has increased a hundredfold.