MISCELLANEOUS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 30 November 1912, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS

LONDON, Nor. 29. Mrs Longeon, wife of a laborer at Gateshead, gave a seafaring youth a decade ago shelter and food. The youth emigrated to Australia, -where he was a successful farmer. He died in June, and donated Mrs Longeon his estate, with £25,000 worth of stock. ST. PETERSBURG, Nor. 29.

A Russian military train with reservists colided with.a workmen's train at Horso, in Manchuria. Eleven were killed and thirty-two severely injured. BERLIN", Nov. 29.

It is reported that the War Office and the Admiralty recommend the construction of a fleet of twenty Zeppelins, with a speed of 51 miles an hour, capable of remaaining aloft for four days and discharging a ton of explosives. SYDNEY, Nov. 29.

King was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife in September, with a recommendation +o mercy op. the ground that he was of weak intellect. Sentence was deferred.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 29

The imports to the Commonwealth in October were a record, being £2,398,000 above the previous October. On the "other hand the exports decreased by £884,000. The imports for the ten months increased by £10,138,715-