BY THE WAY

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1513, 15 July 1905, Page 3

BY THE WAY

The Princess of Wales bus given birth to a son. A new aMululi, a youth of .seventeen, is trviny to gather followers eastwards of the Berber coast. The tribes promise to report bis movements to Britain. Th« Wvndhaiu Presbyterian choir has decided to enter for the Invcrcargill musical competition. The New Zealand footballers defeated the Sydney Metropolitan team by 22 points to o. Father Hays intends to remain in New Zealand several weeks for (he purpose of resting. The walking craze, which was so pronounced a few years ago, has been ; revived in Wanganui, where a contest 'is 1o take place on duly 27th. A. safe now being made for the Premier Diamond Mine Company is intended to hold ;C2,000,000 worth of diamonds. It will be the strongest •Snf*» ever constructed. Scotland is the land of twins and triplets. In twelve months 1025 Scottish mothers gave birth to twins, and 25 presented their husband with triplets. Keep quiet : llow dare you V " exclaimed the ("hrisi'-hurcli Court orderly iudign-uilly to a female a<viiM*d of using obscene language as she gave him a dig in the ribs with her thumb. (•'i' public-house lo 100 inhabitants is ihe proportion in two AVestl.vnd tow is. Ifo! itika, with a population of I*oo. eighteen hotels. Ho<s, with 700, sewn hotels. A Vienna surgeon has successfully replaced a man's middle fmger with . one of the patient's second toes, ampulati'd fur that purpose. | Wallsboroiigh, a thriving Pennsyl- j vanian town of -11)00 souls, lias just opened its first place of worship. The town is over a century old. The number of motor-cars in use in the United States at the end of P.MH was over 05,000, an increase of more than 50 per cent, in a single year. Hv breeding and feeding his fowls in a special way, a Wiesbanden chemist has been able so to increase the natural quantity of iron in eggs that they are medicinal, and useful for the cure of various diseases. The Surgical Congress Commit tee (Paris) has informed the Surgical Society that five months' investigation showed there were dozens of serumcured cancer cases.