THE WORLD’S PRESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 240, 18 October 1901, Page 3

THE WORLD’S PRESS.

USE OF TELEPHONE,

General Superintendent Clarke, of the Lackawanna Railroad, made tho announcement some days ago that his road in the course of a few months will bo managed by the telephone instead of by telegraph as at present, at a saving of about 60 per cent, in the hire of telegraphic operators.—Sun, New York.

THE REAL THRONE,

The English King may be said to have three thrones, of which the finest and most splendid is perhaps that at Windsor Castle ; the most frequently used one is that at Buckingham Palace ; and the true English throne (so designated because, seated on it, the Sovereign receives the Ambassadors in state) is the one at St. James’ Palace, London. —Lady’s Magazine. ft

IDEAL PAVEMENTS,

The question of pavements will be immensely affected bv tha advent of the motor car, and it is just possible that in a few years we may witness the ideal condition of hard, smooth, non-absorbent pavements over which run rapid, noiseless, and odourless machines. If this ideal condition is ever attained London and the larger towns will be the healthiest, the most pleasant, and the most convenient of all places in which to reside. The Hospital.

HOW KNOI.AND ACQUIRES COLONIES,

There have been many descriptions of the way in which John Bull builds up his Empire, but it was left to the Malay journalist to tell us that the British Empire rests on a foundation of prayer. •• Africa," says the writer in the Malay journal, “is a British colony. I will tell you how England mikes her colonies. First she gets a missionary: when the missionary has found a specially beautiful and fertile tract of country, he gets all his people round him, and says, ‘ Let us pray;' and when all the eyes are shut, up goes the British flag!"—Black and White. K.'.'EK COMMANDOES. The news in the Colony is not good, for our troops have again and tigsm failed to catch the Boer commandoes. This can only be due to the superior mobility o i the Boers, and that superior mobility after a year and a-half's experience is, not creditable to the British army. ‘ The truth is, we load our men too heavily with all sorts of impedimenta, and therefore they always start the race penalise?' by some ten or twelve pounds, an “ extra ” quite enough to ensure their opponents winning.—Spectator."