NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12420, 9 December 1908, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS.

The Russian War Office is- to spend £1,500,000 immediately ontho - construction of aeroplanes and airships. Seventeen persons were killed and 266 injured in "the Aemerican .baseball season which has just closed. At the funeral of Mr George Baxter Smith, the squire of Laxfield, the coffin was', conveyed to the churchyard on a farni waggon; . Although Sir Joseph Ward _ commands a good working majority he has opposed to him a body of fighters who maj'. he expected to subject the affairs of the country to a critical examination and act as a tonic on the political life of the Dominion. — Hawera "Star." .."■"•■ The Duke of Westminster is this year distributing the whole of tbe fee, to £275. paid by visitors for thu privilege of viewing Eiton among Chester and district charities. . In Lincolnhire excavations which have been in progress at Croyland Abbey have resuLed in the discovery ofth9site of Sb. Gutnjao's Cell. The: saint (who landed on the island of Ctoylandbn St Bartholomews Day ia 679), tradition saya, lived in a cell directly west of the west front to th« ahhoy. ___„ _,_ ii .:/ '•.■■ •■ ' ." *" "•" ■■*'■ ' ■