NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12159, 6 February 1908, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

The design of Mr Ralph Kuott, a young and unknown London architect, has been selected for the London County Council's now ball, to be erected at cost of Mr Knott's commission will tmount to £38,250. The London "Daily Mail" states that French, Belgian, and German Esperantists have plannecl the estab--ishment of an independent Esperanto State in the neutral territory of Moresent, between Liege and the Prussian Rhine province. Cases of plague are still being discovered in widely-separated districts of San Franoisco. The disease and the number of rats are increasing. Physicians predict a terrible outbreak in the spring. Searchers for the body of a small boy named Frank Collin, who fell from a train near Totnes (Devonshire) tne other day found him watching a football match in ajield adjoining the railway line, ilia only injuries were a slight scratch on the face and a cut finger. Toe principal sufferers among settlers through the continued dry weather in Hawke's Bay are those who were unable to sow tbeir turnips and rape early.