BY THE WAY.
Sturdy beggars. The Hastings Borough Council has decided to ask Mr Carnegie for £2OOO for a public library. A French fisher girl at Ushant swam in her clothes to a boat containing six shipwrecked sailors in a perilous position, &r ( d steered them to a place of safety. Ernest Alpin, a iireman, who met his death by being run over in the Manawatu Railway Co.'s yards, was the first employee cf the company killed since tbe line was openrd 18years ago.
Tbe Broadford (Vic.) Catholic Cb.urch is a scene of vandalism. Images and pictures have bean destroyed, and the altar cloths and priests vestments torn and covered with filth.
The U.S. Government magazine at lona Inland, Hudson River, where hundreds of tons of dynamite, shells, and powder were stored, exploded, the seriss of explosions lasting an hour. Sixteen persons were killed. The shells bombarded farms, maiming many and killing six.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1256, 7 November 1903, Page 2
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