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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12055, 27 August 1902, Page 5

Northwich, Cheshire, has revived the old English festival of crowning .the Rose Queen. . Tooth-brushes have been described as a luxury by a member of the German Tariff Commission. - Local option is provided tor in the draft Liquor Bill drawn up by the Transvaal Administration. . -• .•■ . . Steps are being taken by the British South Africa Company for the preservation of all the pro-historic ruins in Rhodesia. Colonel Kekewich, the defender of Emberley, has been presented with a sword of honour by the inhabitants of the town, and a gold cigarette case studded with diamonds by the ladies of Kimberley. "The largest electrical tramway system in the world will shortly be laid down at Johannesburg. t Mme. Tberesia Albert, the heaviest A-oman in Vienna, has just died, aged 66. She was over 6ft in height, and weighed 30st 101b.- - In the form of a cheque, £313.472 Is 6d has been handed by the Swiss Government to the Commercial Bank of St. Gall to pay for the railway recently purchased by .he State. Maharajah Sir Venkatasvetachalapati Banga, Rajah of Bobbili, now in London as the representative of the Madras Presidency, has been elected a life member of the Royal Asiatic Society. w No educational facilities whatever are provided for eighteen millions of Russian children.