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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6662, 7 December 1899, Page 3

A voting machine was used at the municipal election in Irvington, a suburb of In- ; dianapolis, on May 1. The result of the ■ election was announced nine minutes after the polls closed. ] A miser, aged seventy-nine, who lived ] alone in. Islington, was found to be ill and A apparently destitute and starving. He was { removed to the workhouse, and on his room - being searched £439 in gold was found in a " cigar-box, together with twenty-four £5 - [ notes, one £10 note, and a bar of gold, : which had apparently been cast from gold coins. ■ ! A baby has just been bom in Balta, Shet- . land Isles, an event that hasnc. precedent in that part of the Vorld within the last i 200 years. V - The Prince of Wales has only played in j one real cricket match ; that was soon after { he had left the University, and it teak place at the Vice-regal Lodge', Dublin. The re- . suit of his fielding was the missing of two easy catches, and when his turn at the < wicket came round he was bowled ,by the £ first ball— a slorr lob. I i