NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12218, 15 April 1908, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

At a village near Exeter the wife | of a farm laborer has given birth to her twenty-second child. All the family are alive and well. One of the ricfiest clergymen in England died at Guilford recently in the person of the Rev. Francis Paynter, who had been rector of Stoke-next-Guildford for thirtyfour years. He owned much pro-. perty in the neighborhood of Regent street and Piccadily in London, and his income was reputed to be between £70,000 and £80.000 a"year. There was keen bidding at Messrs Glendinning's rooms, London, recently for a copy of the exceptionally rare "Post Office" Mauritus one penny stamp of 1847. It was finally bought by, a private collector at the prioe of £450. The son of a well known Munich merchant has been sentenced in Russia to fifteen years' penal servitude for caricaturing the Czar. When the new harbor works at Dover are completed in 1910 they will accommodate fifty men-of : warl In America, between the Atlantic and Pacific, there are 1,500 Salvation Army corps, with |5,000 officers and tens of thousands of doldiers. The Generol says that "there aie possibilities of greater development in that country. ' For Children's Hacking Cpught ,a.t night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6.