NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3495, 10 April 1912, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

General Booth's 83rd -birthday today.

Cool and changeable weather is proable.

The Victorian Government lias drafted a scheme for the holding of an Empire Exhibition in one of the Australian cities. It- is being forwarded to the Premiers of the other States.

Spencer Crakenthorpe, chess champion of New South AYales, is going to England to measure his skill in the game against other competitors.at the coming British cliesp tournament-

speaking at a meeting of Rer-ha-bitts in Sydney, Air J. H. A'vT'se, the chairman, said th e death rate of the order was only 3.15 per thousand, winch showed the value of total abstinence.

, Burglars have been active of late in Feilding and surrounding district, and residents have on several occasions had then- houses entered and valuables, chiefly silver plate, have been taken.

Allien a woman observes a baby screaming fo-r his bottle she calls him “a sweet angel.” AVhen she observes an elderly gentleman screaming for his bottle she thinks hint “an old devil.” ■ —John Treven.a.

The ideal woman is the one we have ot yet met, but hope to meet tonorrow.—“'Sketch.”

If some girls practised more on the gas range and less on the piano this would he a happier world.—‘‘Judge ”