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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3551, 15 June 1912, Page 2

A Frenchman who had attracted much attention recently in the streets of Lausanne by the extreme elegance of his clothes, stood before a shop window, carefully parting his hair while an admiring crowd collected round him. Then he drew out a revolver, and, sliding its muzzle under a curl, blew cut his brains.

Off Sehaffhonso, on the Rhine, a -wealthy Swiss had to -pass through a terrible ordeal, for lie had to choose among life four drowning children, which to save, and he decided upon agirl, while lier three brothers were drowned before their father, a- strong swimmer, could return to them. The boat containing the Swiss, his four children, and his brother, who was a poor swimmer, capsized in a sudden storm on Lake Constance, and the distracted father hoped to save all his offspring, hub when he returned to seek his other three children they had disappeared.

A young fellow from Liverpool, named- John Hudson, who said he was a. dock laborer, was before the Newport magistrates on a recent Monday, charged with begging in Stow Bark Circus. The defendant said. “Just now there is, a good,deal of public sorrow expressed about the lots of 1,600 lives in the Titanic, but what about the 16,000 and more who aro lost in tluj .sea of poverty and destitution?" The magistrate cut him shorty and asked him if he had any. witnesses to call. '“Yes,” he replied; “my poverty and destitution is my witness..’’ Filled 215., or a month-

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