MISCELLANEOUS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11863, 18 February 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

London, Feb 16 The Pall Mall Gazette says that whereas in Lord Clanricarde'3 case the responsibilities of property were so cynically ignored, a desperate case may require a desperate remedy, especiially if it selfishly obstructs a great national settlement. Cerebro-spinal meningitis has appeared in Staffordshira. t^ Nineteen good pictures have been stolen from the Art Gallery at Pwllneli, Wales. A tailor named Bayerl has been arrested for complicity in Miss Lake's murder. What is supposed to be the earliest portrait of Shakespeare, 'painted on an old panel, and valued at three thousand pounds, has been discovered at an inn at Winston, in Durham. Owing to tbe rise in the 'raw material, soap has advanced in price. A West Australian loan of one million pounds at 3^ is about to|be issued. The minimum is fixed at 97. The amount has been underwritten. Slot machines for the sale of penny stamps in sixpenny packets, and postcards, has been installed in the portico of tbe General Post Office. St John, Feb 15 The Newfoundland Assembly, by 23 to three, has adopted an address to Lord Elgin, Secretary for the Colonies, approving of the Fisheries vivendi.