NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 1 April 1909, Page 2

N EWS OF THE DAY.

_ — ■ - — A women's missionary meeting wiE be- held at the Baptist Church this afternoon, when Miss Damsford, a re- , turned missionary from East-Bengal, India, "will give an address. A member of a colonial firm manu- , facturing boot polish told a "Gisborne i'Herald representative that ■ New! Zealand sent £22,00& abroad last year for imported boot polishes. One of the ancient documents at Devizes, instead of being a ", charter," as was. supposed, is in reality " letters patont ■ by James 1., under the Groat Seal (1609-10), regranting charity lands to the Mayor ahd burgesses of Devizes. - Thei discovery may have important .results. The Nelson Motor Service Company advertise alterations in. their, timetable with regard to the Tahuna run.ning. After Saturday the. cars; will not .run unless requested to:^ by. parties of not less isban six: adults. Full particulars will be found in advertisement. I ' In America thousands of persons are killed annually by electric trams, and the companies have lately ,c**ered a big reward for an invention which will reduce the fatalities. They -have tried hundreds of -devices in life-sav-ing fenders witn "indifferent success:: Now they have been offered a corny pressed air invention, wliich the. driV. ver can operate .■ffith. his foot or hand,, and which "literally blows a child or man off tho track: -'Experiments made V with dummies were encouraging;