NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume I, Issue 12126, 28 December 1907, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

While walking on the veldt near J"aeob9dal, Orange River Colonyj a soldier named Apelgrin noticed a bunch of thin wires protruding from the ground. He attempted to pull them out, when an explosion of what proved to be dynamite occurred, and he was seriously injured. It is supposed that the explosive was placed there during the war. At Norwegian state balls the ladies who intend to dance wear white, those who do not usually'appear in blarl?. - ~~Opa]s~often fall from"their settings because they expand with heat niort than other precious stones, and con eequently force opei£tne gold which holds them in place. armbrf "ZZlßSßß

f^Professor Berg, of Bueno3 Ayres, baa discovered a spider which catches tiny fish by means of its web, which it drags tnrougb. tbe water. The latest rhyme runs as follows:— Conciliation is vexation, Arbitration is as bad, The Factory Act does puzzle me, ~ And the Shop Act drives me mad !. David Bensusan, a Deptford diamond dealer, who was sued at the City of London Court, appeared in court unshaven and with a dirt} handkerchief, around his neck. In making an order against him, the judge said he believed he hac dressed himself for his part of the impseunious debtor.