NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3537, 30 May 1912, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Miss Esther Me rev, of Chicago, is suing tlm Dean of the University of Chicago for £20,000 damages, because she was expelled from the student body -of the university for wearing a hat that cost £SO.

Owing, it Is said, to the vogeu of untrimmed hats for women, the French exports of artificial flowers fell from £1,200,000 to £320 000 last year, reports an American ConsulAll children effected with wlna-p----ing cough in Washington will in future wear a label denoting the nature of their complaint-.

A woman at Wfllmergen,, Germany ) d’-ooned dead when her husband, whom she had mourned as dead for 20 years, walked into the house. The Prince of Wales is now settling down in Paris to his Frond) studies and is dewing great benefit from In’s R -av. His dav is being divided, roughly, into three narts —one devoted to hi« French studi°« under bis special French tutor, M. F'mofFw, Hie second +o exercises, cud the third to °icrhtseeing and social duties. The Prince of Wales has no intention of attendmg any race meeting on Sunday whda. he is in France.” writes Major Olive Gigrom from Buckingba,m Palace in reply to a ecvrdsnondent. A corresimndeiP of the perbher Tageblatt. writing from Paris of the Prince of Wal p*. snyc. r —Ho is a -charming and slender youth, a little sliy. but with the good and "1»gant manner with which all Englishmen, however young, seem tn he endowed. Put it is noteworthy that his ton-bat is much too big and broad for his head. Paris, be considers, finds the Prince’s incognito title very agreeable. associating it spontaneously with the cheese generally supposed to come from the neighborhood of Chester,