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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 696, 6 October 1909, Page 6

Several men were seen in the streets of London carrying fans during last month's heat wave.

An Antaictic iceberg has been seen that was 20 miles wide, 40 miles in length, and 400 feet in height, Every year ab>ut 4,000 rich persons die in the United Kingdom, leaving estate worth £200,000,000.

A Maori who died at Waihi, near Waitara, the other day, was reputed to be over a hundred years old.

Five tram conductors were fined by the Blackpool magistrates for not wearing their badges when on duty. The mail despatched from Dunedin via Naples on the 19th of August arrived in London on the 27th inst. Of vessels built, those turned out from British dockyards usually form 20 to 25 per cent, of the total. The Cornish fishing fleet at Newlyn ran into a " sea " of mackeral fifty miles in circumference.

In time of war the deatli-rate among army officers is proportionately heavier than among the rank and file.

In the Auckland Court last week Isabel Sinclaire, nineteen years of age, was commited for trial on a charge of having concealed the birth of her child, and with having murdered the said child.