Execution of Major Panitza.

; Major Pantejsa. was shot on Saturday, 28tK June at Sofia. All the telegrams '- ~ J ii&iGn&vaig "iW execution report that he met his doom bravely. Prince Ferdinand — signed his death warrant on board ship at Cvs EotitPalahka, being then on his way to , -Vienna. Panitza, says the Vienna corres"poiidenfc of the Times, went to bed on Friday night without knowing tfiat he ' : !W*B to be executed on the morrow. ;He received the information from the Military Procurator, Marcoff, early on Saturday , « corning, and at 10 o'clock was dnven from the house of detention to the drill ground of the summer encampment outr/sifle the city in a closed carriage. A priest and a gendarme were with him. On arriving on the ground Panitza took the Holy Communion from a priest, said a prayer, ' and walked with a firnv step towards a tree against which he was told; to stand. The whole garrison of the camp—that is, four regiments of infantry and one of artillery—were drawn up on the ground, and Panitza, recognising several of the officers, saluted them as he passed. When he reached the tree a sergeant stepped forward to blindfold him, but he took the handkerchief from the man's hands and adjusted it himself, crying in a loud voice before he did so, 'Long live " Bulgaria !' Panitza was then tied round the chest and waist to the trunk of the tree, and a firing party of 21 soldiers, commanded by a sublieutenant, took Up its position at 20 paces from him. The command was not given by word' of mouth, but by strokes of the officer'ssword, and at the third cut through ""SKe-ittrthß-scLuad^red. Deatliwas instantaneous, and the sergeant, who inarched up to examine the body, revolver in hand, Was not required to give the usual coup de grace. Subsequently it was found that all the 21 bullets had struck. The report is now. corroborated that the Bulgarian "' Ministers of Finance and Foreign Affairs resigned rathen? thaw acquiesce in the order for the execution of Major Panitza. SeTeral foreign Governments have intheir representatives at Sofia to report how the Bulgarians received the news of the execution.

A new method of utilising the power of •canning streams has been devised by M. T^yn^ a Russian engineer. His apparatus consists of an endless cable carrying a seyies of canvas cones which open and aaub like an umbrella. The cable passes over a double drum on board a pontoon, and at the other end over a pulley suspended from a buoy. On the lower part of the rope the cones are opened and forced forward by the current of water, thus setting in motion a shaft or drum. | |Spofforth made his first appearance agftinst his former comrades in the Derbyshire match. In the first innings he got three wickets for 34 runs ; in the second six for forty-two. The thrifty portion of the population of the British Isles last year deposited ■ 1i16,814,000 in the Post Office Savings Bank, and after withdrawal left a balance to fche good of L 3,000,000.