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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 20 April 1910, Page 4

Among the prisoners dealt with at Ballarat City. Court on Friday, April Bth, was an old man, Jolin McOormack, who had been arrested on a charge of having no visible means of support. .When taken into custody McCormack was lying on, the floor of an untenanted house, and was so weak from exhaustion following on starvation, that the policeman had difficulty in keeping ihirn standing on his feet. He refused to go to the hospital, so he was placed in the lock-up. Inside the back lining of his ragged, foul-smelling coat, a hard square substance was discovered. It was tightly sewn in between the outer materialand lining. On the lining being re-, moved from the coat ? deposit receipts were disclosed showing that McCormack had the sum of £2200 to his credit in one of the banks. Attached firmly was also £30 in bank notes. The gaol authorities took possession of the hoard of the miser, who now will be called upon to pay for his board . and residence and medical treatment at the gaol. McCormack is sixty-five years of age",

France has decided to sp^'ii £'•50,000,000 on the reorganisation of her iloet, tho cost to bo spread over a period of ton years. Under this new naval scheme tho French nxr^ will have twenty-eight battleships. Heights of the two peaks of Mo tut Huascarau, Peru, one of which jV.is* Peck, of Aenirica, climbed, have liu«i calculated by expert French engineers sent out by Mrs F. Bullock TV).* man, to be 21,812 feet and 22,182 k«fr respectively.