NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12259, 3 June 1908, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

In reply to a question in the House of Commons Mr E. Robertson stated tbat the annual cost of a Erst-class British battleship in full commiSr 9ion was £231,500. A torpedo-.boati .. destroyer cost £17,500 aqd atjM-iV : ' class torpedo- boat, £6000. The Union-Castld liner Newark. ,' Caatlo whch ran ashore near Durban 1 recently] was sold by auction and . realised only £575. The Newark Castle was of 6242 tons and at .the "t-tiine Sfce struck was herself valued at £85, 000, in addition to which the vessel had a very valuable cargo on board. During a rehearsal of ''Ninette' 1 at the Cluny Theatre the other night, M. Arruand, who was taking the principal part, died suddenly on the stage. ;■ ■ . •" -. ... At West Hope, near Soargill, a Scotch ewe, in lamb, belonging to Mr David Alcleraon, has been recovered from a snow drift, in which. it had been imprisoned for twenty/ ; sis consecutive days. Restoratives were applied, and the sheep is re- : covering. Lots were drawn as a jest at a ■". dance in Asheville. North Carolina, to see who should be married, and Mr J. A. Brookshira and Miss Kathleen Gentry,. on whom they fell, were compelled ty the other guests to go through a marriage ceremony The couple are now petitioning for a divorce on the ground that the marriage was only a joke. A Paris cabman named Benjamin Leboeuf found in his cab a bundle of bank-notes to the total value of £16,000. He took the bundle to the lost property office, and the owner on . claiming bis property left £80 as a present for the cabman. '■■."■''- A ball to celebrate a divorce is the latest American monstrosity. A report from St.. Louis states that Mrs Cbarlos Deutchmann, ? divorce, of No. 4311 Kennerley avennej held a, ball to celebrate two events— that she had obtained a divorce from hef husband, and that her recent husband had just been happily marriedi The Enlperor Menelik, of Abyssinia, has just issued an edict to the effect that any child. that does not go to school shall not inherit from its parents. Suiting practice to- percept, the Negus sends Frince Jasaonj the hereditary pnncei to the public school At the Medical Conference in Paris Dr Desnoyer asserted that sloped handwriting was normal and regular - bat tnat upright writing was a sign of perversity and deformity. A prisoner found fguilty of arson at Terr's Hunte, Indiana; suddenly--"; ripped out a revolver add fired from the dock at the chief official of the police .force, who had been the , principal witness in the case. The officer fell dead. The prisoner, : witb his five remaining bullets, wounded, five witnesses before ho was shot dead by the police. ' M. Soulie, a retired French naval offi cer, has invented '■ periscopespectacles, " by means of which the wearer can see what »s going on be-, bind bis back. ' ' Woods' Great Peppermint Cure fcr ,ooughs and colds nevor fails. I' 6 and 2/6