NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3500, 16 April 1912, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The weather will probably be cool and changeable.

Battle of Culloden Moor, April 16, 1746.

A tornado at Newcamoio, Missouri, levelled a number of houses*’ Several persons were killed.

The* Yicerop has opened the Upper C’henab section of the Punjab Canal, which when completed will irrigate two million acres.

A Servian student with a revolver killed his fiancee in the street,-and then fled on a bicvcle. The police pursued and exchanged shots with the student, who was killed.

A cruiser squadron will be formed in midsummer, consisting of the Cornwall and Cumberland and four others, to patrol the trade routes and show the flag in various parts of the world.

Dr Beattie Nesbitt, president of the Farmers’ Bank of Canada, which failed in 1911, has been arrested at Chicago, charged with falsely representing the bank’s position. An investigation disclosed alleged irregularities.

The report of the Federal expedition to the Northern Territory states that large areas of well-water and ideal sheep country have been found between Anthony’s lagoon and Newcastle waters.

- What is believed to bo the oldest organ in existence has been discovered bv a German musical director, who visited 59 churches in Gothland, and in a village- called Sundae, came upon the remnant of the quaint old instrument. The case alone has survived the fret of seven centuries, and its exterior is adorned with paintings from about the vear 1240.

“Do you regard insomnia as contagious, doctor?” “There’s no question about it. When the baby in the house is wakeful everyone else in simi, larlv afflicted.”

One hundred tons of coal, when burned, produce a ton of soot.

Before the New South Wales Pure Food Commission a representative of the Pharmaceutical Society gave evidence as to the drug habit. He said the use of drugs had increased in shocking proportions. He urged that they should .he supplied only on a doctor’s certificate.

The New South Wales Government lias completed arrangements to build the Commonwealth warships at the Fitzroy clocks. As scon as experts arrive from England the work will he started. The dock staff has been largely increased.