NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3434, 27 January 1912, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The forecast is for mild weather for 24- hours, with a falling barometer. .

The ‘ Runyan” win dew was dedicated in Westminster Abbey with an impressive service.' The Primate was present, as were Dr Clifford and four of the leading Free Church ministers, who assisted the Dean of Westminster.

The two youths who escaped from the Wellington! gaol the fcvtber diay were wearing suits made from .prison blankets when captured a few hours ’at*!*.

On dit that things were somewhat animated at the meeting of the Women’s Guild l yesterday. .

The Loi’d Chamberlain lias vetoed Mr 1. Zangwill’s plav, “The Next Religion.”

Tho English Agricultural Departmental Committee’s report on the position of the tenant farmers recommends the establishment of a land bank, to make advances to enable tenants to purchase their holdings, and a scheme of State-purchased estates as a protection against the tenants’ dispossession. It also demands that extended notices should be sent to tenants in the event of a sale.

Tn response to the invitation issued on January Bth, the London Board of 'Prado has received 80.000 applications for appointments in connection witli the Labor Exchanges and unemployment insurance.

Mrs Nicholas Longworth (ex-Frest-dent Roosevelt’s daughter), introduced a new fashion at a ball in Washington. She appeared in glass-heeled dancing slippers, which, created a sensation and she. also wore white tulle shoulder wings. . .

Tho Duke of Connaught has arrived at Washington, on a visit to President Taft. The Duchess and Princess Patricia remain at New York. •

■ Owing to Paraguay’s unsatisfactory attitude regarding compensation for outrages on Argentine ships and property, the Government is sending warships and destroyers to Paraguay.

Mr McKenzie Bowell, addressing a meeting at Belleville, U.S.A., said that Canada rejected the reciprocity proposals, because she was doing' so well financially. Ho predicted the Dominion would soon equal the United States in wealth, and population, and then all possible talk of annexation would disappear.