NEWS NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 2 March 1908, Page 1

NEWS NOTES.

The ißank of England is to be asked fo repay a sum lodged about 1772, which at compound interest would am ounl to £80,000,000. Thongh the receipt was, it is said, made apayable at sight the money was never claimed. It was deposited by a hetman, or little governor, in.. Little Russia, the district north of Kieff.

" A farmer near Milton informs the Bruce Herald that he never knew poisoning to he so successful-' in the case of raibbits a's iit has been with him recently He got asupvly from the iMosgiel.de pot, and laid it out on his land on on c ppproved evening, and the result was chat rabbits, young and old, were pick up dead in all directions. H e is quite satisfied that just now poisoning is the thing.

On Saturday Last 'Halfmoon /Bay was alive with shoals of por.podscs. This is a sure indication, that the fish swarms have got into the ntighbourhood. They other sources of information <we learn that the island fishermen are 1 not neglecting the opportunity that het presence of the fish •provides.— Soulhlasd Times.

■Since the beginning of 'the present year typhoid has M^n very prevalent throughout ;che metrd.pblitan district qi Sydney and considerbale sixain has oonscquiently been placed on- the accommodation of the. various hospitals. I: is thought that the 'extended period of. dry -weather had 'been unusually heavy li-yfc of patienits.

Picture books for the 'benefit of travellers arc kept in the Paris police stations. It frequently occurs that foreign ers lose things which ihey aro •unable to describe, because of their unfamiliarity with the French language. The picture books contain representations of various articles, and the inquirer has only to turn the leaves and point out the illustrations which jrcs-cmble the property he has lost.

/Frequent use of .the misroscopc is said to prevent near-sightedness. Watchmaker's -arc 'Scidodm Miff licked with it-

■Seven hundred oysters, an average of two dozen and ■ a-half per guest, were consumed at Colchester oyster feast.

The Government of Japan has erect, tombstones on the graves of 180 Russian soldiers (who die there during the war.

Reports of sheep stealing are rife in the /Tokomairrii-o district. o"n,e_,farmer was said to 'be 200 short in his tally one day, while another, who lost So had 40 returned to him by a farmer- living four miles away who found them in \ his paddock.

After being closed for upwards of two years owing to two serious subsidences the Alexandra iGiuving Dock Belfast one of the largest in the king dom was publicly reopened recently.

Jimmy Rocfne, an inmate of tihe -Sun derla ; nd workhouse, astonished the guardians at the annual .Christmas gathering by claiming ,to be 112 years old. H e states that his father fought at the 'battle of Waterloo, iand that he himself went through uhe Indian Mut my and the Crimean war.