BREVITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3219, 16 May 1911, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Unrest in Morocco nnabated. Mexican rebels still advancing. Smallpox on steamer “Naming” at Adelaide. Serious developments Johannesburg tramway strike. Horrible crime in Russia. A whole h ousehold butchered. Mysterious murder of voung girl reported in. to-day’s cables. Weather in- Gisborne cold and blustering. Heavy rain last night. Sum of £3700 already subscribed for Dunedin. Hospital women’s ward. South Wales strikers demand nationalisation of mines and increased wages. Mokoia with English mail aboard late in arriving at_ Bluff. Mails despatched by special train. The Japanese explorers are camped near the fortifications in Sydney, and are believed to be spies. In honor of the over-seas journalists who will he in London during the Coronation, the Empire Press Union have arranged a banquet at Prince’s Restaurant- on Satiurdav. June 17, when the Home press will have the opportunity of meeting their colleagues from the Dominions. The King intends to retain his membership' of the Marlborough Chib. This is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, and it was the favorite and in later years the only club of King Edward. A dramatic version of the Book of Job given at the Blaekfriars Hall, Norwich, recently. The work of. adaptation was done bv the Hon. Svbil Amherst, and the audience consisted largely of the dibcesan diergy.