NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 141, 13 June 1908, Page 14

NEWS TIT-BITS.

A "vanishing lady? has been married" r J in Peterborough to an "illusionist." Professor Haver, of Budapest, claims ' that ■ the injection ,qf gelatine is a perfect cure for,cancer. A railway engine usually travels about one million miles before it-is worn out. S-1 A T^aby—son of William Bradshaw, the jjp resident engineer—has been born in the *3i House of Lords. Antonio Fuentes, the Spanish bull- r fighter, has retired at the age of forty, " after taking part in 800 combats. ; Persons bearing the same surnames, ; S although they may not be related in any '.' way, are forbidden to marry in China. The_ committee of the Palace of Peace "!§ at the Hague has accepted tenders for the building of the foundations of the palace for £937,500.

"Doves for sale, cheap. Eat nearly anything. Very fond of children," says -# a notice in a bird fancier's shop window; V\ at Southend-on-Sea. ■ :Jii

An order has been issued at St. Peters- ;':'• burg forbidding the students of ;;

Cadet Corps to read "Sherlock Holmes" :; and other stories of a similar character. ;5 It was an American who said that- ;' what most congregations ought to say was: "Lord, have mercy upon us, miser- ■■: ,3 able singers." Owing to the present famine in Russia ' thousands of children in Kazan have not a rag of clothing, says Reuter, and are described as running about naked. As a recompense for playing with the cats of an old woman who has just died at Vienna a little girl has been left £40. Sacco, the fasting that this '■,•■•' year he has been fasting at a loss. If *•: ~,-; things don't improve he may starve to ' death. • : t<

Aged 100, Mrs.'Esther Jones has died 7! in Reading Workhouse Infirmary, England. " -^

Two hundred divorce cases were re« cently granted in twelve days by tnt Servian Synod of Carlovats.

Two children have died recently Swindon (Eng.) from diphtheria, < ani there is strong evidence that in each case the infection was spread by a cat. .<

Because he considers the game an excellent moral and physical discipline, the commander-ih-chief of the French Medir . terranean squadron is encouraging the formation of football teams among hi* ■ men.

The Admiralty has, after fifty years, just removed from its charts an island that never existed. That's how island* are disposed of; they are discovered by; . means of the "bump" of locality.-

"Thank Heaven! Look at the rest I : shall have!" exclaimed a labourer at > Acton, when sent to prison for five day* , for being drunk. The German Emperor while in Italy .- > bought many beautiful specimens of pot-- }° tery, and sent them to his own factory /• to be copied. Is that not typical of tbui >** true German scheme in commerce? . ■ In journeying from New York to Livew -. pool recently, the. Cunard liner Carmania was in communication by wireless

telegraphy with no fewer than 22 yesij eels. This is said to be a record ia

ocean "conversation." The ladies' page in a contemporary gives hints to young married women how

to persuade their husbands to come out. in the evening. Times have changed^' the old problem used to be how , "to pop*; suade'theraftb stop "itt: J '■'— "'• "•'" •■"" "'M

There are not fewer than 20000; empty houses in London to-day, and yet in the suburbs new houses are being run up in an almost phenomenal way. V^3|| Crushed between ice-floes, the Algerjj| ine, a Newfoundland sealing vessel, unloaded her coal to make repairs. She was then driven away by a gale, and to>j| reach land had to burn as fuel 500 seali and all her woodwork. Five ironclads, each to exceed the Dreadnought in tonnage, the "Iron «iul|j Steel Trades' Journal" understands, ariS to be built on the Clyde for the Russia* Government

The largest clock in the worldJβ vii| be set going at a Jersey city soap fao> ... tory. It is 28ft in diameter. It -was/buillf to outshine Big Ben, which is 22Jft i» diameter

C. Salt, of the North Stafford established a world's record at Burton*?

on-Trent by coupling and uncoupling wagons in TOJsec. During that time hi ran 230 yards, made 38 pauses, and lifted 11401b. The town site of Prince Rupert, tSr|| Pacific Coast terminus of the GrandS

Trunk Pacific, will be opened this year, . and the rush for building lots is expected ; \ : to be far greater than in Vancouver. It is stated that the city will start with* population of 20.000. _ s = "Plane for two armoured plated motofr care, designed to carry 20 polkemea each, have been approved of by th# Chicago police authorities." The mad King Otto of Bavaria com* pleted his 60th year the other day at Fuerstenried Palace, where he nas been incarcerated for 30 years. He eat*, drinks, and sleeps mechanically, preeerf* ing a total silence, which is very weal* ing to the attendants' nerves. The Argentine armoured gunboe* -' Parana, launched from Elswick shipyari- "' in April, was a triumph for Tynesid* shipwright apprentices. Owing to th» strike in the shipping trade the apprentices were mainly responsible for th%JJ; launching arrangements. - ; Eighty fanatical Donkhoborr -i*\, Canada, who were being sent back t» their farms.in the Yorkton Reserve, an« > persisted in undressing and marchinf - about without clothes at Winnipeg, were "hustled" into special cars and locked i«'and sent on to Yorkton. Mr. Justice Bucknill has, according *•%-_. an English journal, decided, at the D» vonshire assizes, that a husband who -, stands by and hears his wife slander, an-" ': other person without stopping or tryinj to stop her is liable, with her, for dan* ages.

The seal "fishery" from Newfoundland this year has been most disastrous. Out . of the 21 steamers engaged in it, three have been lost, and scarcely one of the rest has escaped without serious damage. - The only big collection of buffalo left in America has ebeen acquired by the Canadian Government, and a park for their preservation in Alberta, betwee* the Wetaskiwin branch of the Canadian ..-. Pacific railway and Grand Trunk Pacifle main line—lands containing 170 squai* • • miles—has been set apart for this purpose. During the hearing of the Jamaica " earthquake case in the London law ; Courts recently, a witness mentioned ; that after the disaster the people of ;■ Kingston suffered from eeismophobia, or N earthquake fright. On one occasion, he ,\ said, the whole council ran out of the . council chamber after a false alarm ha# . been given.