NEWS JOTTINGS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 4

NEWS JOTTINGS.

The King Country is suffering from the effects of an unprecedented drought for this time of tin*: year. At present there are no indications of the drought breaking up and many tanks are empty. A strip of tarred macadam roadway in Cashel street, Christchurch, has been down for eleven years. This year the centre of the street has been treated again, and is expected to last another ten years. An improved method of laying macadam has been discovered by a * Scotch engineer, which reduces the cost and makes an infinitely better roadway, with a surface almost equal to natural rock and with a life of from ‘ ten to fifteen years. i Admiral Sir A. F. R. de Horsey, ( who has just celebrated his eighty- 1 third birthday, anxious not to disturb a. full Bench of Justices at Newport,: Isle of Wight, by leaving in the ordinary way, vaulted the high back of the . seats. ! Southern Manitoba has been invaded ■ In- a plague of grass-hoppers and beetles from the United States. The crops aro being damaged by the pests. It is thirty-three years since the last invasion. i In great fear or an operation Edward ■ Parry, a Llangollen farmer, went out and hanged himself while the doctors who had come t-o attend him were actually waiting in liis house. A verdict of'“Suicide during temporary insanity” , was returned at the inquest. • For sixty-seven and a half -hours an Ohio jury were considering their ver- j diet in a case of bribery before they j could come to a decision. ■ At a cost of £-50,000 a road for motor- j cars four miles long and 60ft. wide is J to be constructed between Thornton Heath Pond and Pnrley. Of the total amount of the Road Board is giving £30,000. , I James Harris Stradling, aged twenty- 1 six, who committed suicide, was stated j at the inquest to have been much de- ' pressed by the fact that be was getting thill.