MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10772, 18 September 1906, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

SUMMARY OF WORLD'S HAPPENINGS. LONDON, August U. A picture said to be a genuine Guido, and worth £2000, was bought m a London auction room for £2. Tlie great success of the submarines and destroyers during the recent French manoeuvres bus ledi Admiral Fournier to recommend that their number 'be increased. The enormous trade m forged Sevres porcelain, both m. London and on the Con. tinent, ie receiving the attention of tlie French Government. The Cape Government is sending young men to Europe to study the wine industry. Sir 01wirles Metcalfe says that by next month there will be a regular service of trains from Capetown to Broken Hill, a distance of 2100 miles. The National Art Students' League m New York, the largest art school m America, has been raided by "purity" agents, because _of the publication of photographs of nude -statues m an art magazine. In all its branches British shipping showed an increase of prosperity during tlie year 1905. A young burglar caught m Paris was found to be living m handsomely furnished' apartments, with «• housekeeper and valet. He kept a motor car and dogcart. Tlie Rev. F. P. Duinford, vicar of All Souls' Church, Hastings, has started a crusade against "immodest" costumes worn by women on the beach. Tlie Socialist Labor party is making a determined! attempt to captuic the Miners' Federation, Which has hitherto lipid aloof. Justice Olnstead and two other justices of the New York Court of General Session held that to restrict the work of women and cliildren to ten hours a day by State law is an unwarranted invasion of constitutional rights. Miss Millie Brown lui6 been sent to prison for thirty-three days by the Cuban courts for establishing a toy telegraph system which enabled her to communicate with her fiancee. Tlie Hon. Charles Lister, eldest son and heir of Lord Ribblesdale, has formally joined the Independent Labor party. The English orchard harvest promises well. Large supplies are coming into London. Tlie passive resisters are jubilant about the decision of the Appeal Court, justifying their actions. Dr. Clifford has great hopes of recovering his famous trowel, which was distrained on. The uerrible storm of Thursday caused several deaths and widespread luin. Two people Mere killed and one fatally injured at Guildford, a Scottish fanner was struck by lightning, and a boy was blown into a canal and drowned. The crops are destroyed m many places. Anxiety concerning the stability of Winchester Cathedral has been .jncieased' by the fall of tlie pointing of a joint m the vaulted ceiling over the south aisle of the nave. Newfoundland, has put into effect the Act requiring Chinamen entering the colony to pay £60 each. Tliis will kill the scheme for importing coolies to work (m tlie mines. What is believed to be a record special rate, which has to be paid m addition to the ordinary rates, is being collected at Molksliam, Wiltshiie. It is one of seven shillings im the pound, to cover the cost of arbitration over sewerage matters, m which the district lost. At Little Falls, New York, on Tuesday, a balloonist and parachute jumper, named William Johnson, was killed. When he jumped from his balloon at a height of 5000 feet the parachute failed to open. , Johnson fell upon some telegraph wires 75 feet from the ground, and, "after rebounding, fell to the ground. It has been decided! to build a bridge . across the St. Lawrence river at Montreal, m order to make easier access to the capital of the Dominion of Canada. Tlie : bridge, which will be a gigantic feat of engineeiing, will be 2£ miles long. The Colorado river burst its banks near . Fort Worth, Texas, and swept away pro- . perty worth £100,000. Many lives were , lost. , Fourteen members of the American Ice . Trust were indicted m New York for . raising the price of ice 15Qflper cent, duri ing the liot weather. * t Dr. Karl Peters prophesies a great ris- . ing of the blacks of South Africa against ■ white rule. It is suggested that the wrecked battleship Montagu could be. made useful as a ; target for guns and torpedoes. A Chicago woman m a hurry to catch a train knocked down the driver of an electric street car and drove the car herself at a terrific rate, to the terror of the passengers. Mr Alfred Baldwin. M.P., advised the shareliolders of the Great Western Railway to oppose Mr Will Crooks' parliamentary motion to force railway companies to give M.P.'s free passes. Nine men were killed at Ckirleroi Coal Mine, Belgium, on Tuesday. As the cage was being lowered the cable broke, and the nine men dropped 2600 feet to the bottom of the shaft. Mounted gendarmes and police were called' out to guard the mine, wliich was m danger of being sacked by the infuriated relatives of the victims. An epidemic of suicide due -to love, the weather, a guilty conscience, and • other causes, has broken out m Paris. An Ethiopian preacher has been sentenced at Durban to six months' imprisonment and 1 twenty-five lashes for offering prayers of a seditious character m a native kraal. The prayers were to the effect that the natives should) be given strength to drive tine whites across the sea. Forty replicas of Sir Luke Fildes' por. trait of Queen Alexandra, are being made by six artists at St. James' Palace. Tlie pictures are to be sent to the colonies and his Majesty's Embassies. TAHITI MAY BECOME BRITISH. Mr T. Atwater. a. large landowner m Tahiti, confirms the report that France is about to cede the islands to Great Britain. Mr Atwater says : "England has always had a dormant claim to possession. Business is not prospering *, everything is mortgaged 1 to its full extent ; the once fine coprai trade is declining, and only the large pearl beds remain." Tlie New York Sun's correspondent says that Mr Atwater possesses excellent facilities^for information about the islands. JAP COLONY FOR CANADA. The Japanese propose to found a colony embracing a hundred, thousand acres m Alberta. Mr B. R. Nagatany, of Kioto, has already interviewed the railway and Government agents at Winnipeg, and has now started for Jsipan to lav his scheme before the Government. He suggests reciprocal trade relations should be arranged between Canada and Japan. FIRE AT THE MILAN EXHIBITION. The Building of 'Decorative Art at the Milan Exhibition was destroyed by fire on Friday morning, m consequence of a defect m the electric light wiring. Tlie entire forces of the fire brigade worked valiantly tn save the exhibition from total destruction. The British, Japanese, German. Swiss, Persian, Chinese, and Turkish art exhibits were saved, but those of Italy and Hungary were destroyed. Tlie Italian architectural exhibition is also a total loss. The firemen and gendarmes carried thousands of poundis * worth of paintings out of the burning building. The damage is estimated at more than 000. It has been decided to rebuild the Decorative 'Art building immediately. TRAGIC DEATH IN CITY SQUARE. The New York Herald prints a remarkable story of an unidentified woman who sat on a bench m Madison square, m the heart of the New York sliopping. district, for two weeks, and literally starved to death m sight of thousands of people. A number of people noticed the women sitting on the same bench, and practically m the same position, day after day. One of them, a salesman, finally spoke to her. She replied m a faint whisper that she had not left the square for two weeks, save for short intervals m search of food, and that for the last tliree days no morsel of food> had passed her lips. Tlie salesman reported the matter to the poljce. and when an ambulance was ordered to Madison square several hours later, after much red-tape, the woman was dead She was about forty-five years old, ami had been very handsome. DEADLY HEAT IN NEW YORK. Befoie noon on Monday eight people had died from heat stroke m New York, and there were scores of prostrations. The hospitals are crowded with sufferers. There are ten miles of tents crowded with people on Rockaway Beach. Hundreds ! of bachelors have responded to an appeal for £1 5s to support one baby for a week on the beaches. The railway trains are unable to deal with the crowds who want ! to get away from the heat of the city. j The condition of cliildren m the slums is ; pitiable, and the authorities luive granted them permission to play m the fountains and lakes and stand under the water-carts for a cool bath. The Ice Trust is charged with criminal conspiracy for raising prices at a time wlten ice is most needed as a preservative. FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES. A good deal of comment (says the Daily Mail Philippine correspondent) has 'been aroused m the Philippines by rumors of the transfer of the islands to an Anglo-"Japanese-American protectorate. Many of the natives are not at all opposed to the idea. An influential and wealthy planter told me recently that lie should like to see Great Britain take over the Visayas (the central islands between Luzon and Mindanao), principally because ■. the British would open up banks and introduce capital ; and. secondly, because history has shown that the Britislu are the soundest and most successful colonisers m tlie world. I ==