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TIT-BITS.

Formerly a residence of King Henry VIII.. Pl a ist ow Hall has now been acquired by the Church Army and open- . d as a home.

On? hundred thousand of the new Post Office pocket money safes are now bmng made, and will be issued towards the end of the year.

Of 1.131 aliens naturalised in Britan. ';>st. year. 3PO were Russians and 34/ Germans wh’le of the whole total 4('o settled in London.

In the British Army there are Ilia generals on full or half-pay, and on in I tired pay 213; while Germany has 422 generals on the active list. I A iter Iving in the Medway for seven i vears. f e crui er Champion, a train- ; ing-ship for stokers, was dry-docked, and forty tons of mussels have been taken off.

In the past three years seventy-four men have beer, sentenced to death, ana fortv-soven executed; while of ten women sentenc'd none suffered the extreme penalty.

Bv a <e sus recent’y taken it was found that 1,462 men. 321 women, and two children were homeless in one night in the streets of London.

To encourage the study of modern languages the London County Council will, during the summer, make sixty grants of £lO each to school teaeiio. *.

To win a bet of £2CO, and to reduce her weight. Miss Dora Harrison, or Long Island, .S.A., his walked from New York to Tampa, a distance or 1,100 miles.

Among the articles left bv forgetful nassengers on th? South Eastern and (Chatham Railway are a motor-car, forty bicycles, 3.000 umbrellas, four sewing-machines, carved stone idols, and theatrical scenery.

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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 144, 3 June 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

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TIT-BITS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 144, 3 June 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 144, 3 June 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

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