OUR MAIL BUDCET.

d-; SUMMARY OF WORLD , v ;:/ HAPPENINGS. l

LONDON, June 18. There were 1000 guesits at the State ball given by the Kiiig^aiid Qheeii at liiuckingliam .; ("- . Bredall Chiu^chj'iiear Derby, . an anri.cnt Norman .'structure, lias 'been burned lown by suffragettes. Nearly 60,000 ><wild birds have been ■iaught, . ringed, and released in Eng•'and during , the last, five^ years. » A London company that operates a of restaurants. Has declared "a dividend of~ 22- per 1 cent. " J Vancouver this week- held its first Pageant parade/ which- was over: seven niles lbhg; i. The leading astronomers of the world ire flocking to • JEtuSsiaV to take observations of the next total eclipse of the sun. .vhich occurs in August. { Mr E. T. Clarke, a young Londoner, •.vas. called on to assist' in reforming the police department of: Pittsburg? at a salary of. £200 a month. * Sewn in tho dress of a woman arrested in Paris has been found' £2Boo in bank notes.* • •'■'■'■ Two French army airmen' were killed by a - 2000ft fall during a storm near Dijon yesterday. It is stated' that the amount involved

in the failure of the Canadian Agency : mounts directly and indirectly to severer millions. * Six deaths and 87 cases of malaria fever occurred 1 among the crew of the British light cruiser Hermione, which is ; returning home from Tampico, Mexico. The 16-year-old cruiser Terrible, whose i^uns were landed by Sir Perc^y- Scott- in ihe. Bcfer wai% is to be sold out' of ' the !>a»vy>

Rockets to* bo- fired from the ground to destroy, aeroplanes are a French invention ' for which great accuracy is claimed.

Seven '.persons, including four women, were killed and. 28 injured. in a- fire-- in a tenement- building in New York yesterday?. Several leaped to, death from the windows.-

TomsicSj*the Hungarian farm laborer w^io took refuge in a church tower, surrendered after a 34 hours' siege. Altogether; he killed three people and wounded 19<

•M; Jonnart, . president of the Suez Canal Company, thinks- that the prospects of the Suez Canal . will be only slightly affected ' by the opening of the Panama Canal.*

The i water in ian old; -disused ' tin mine at Ponsanooth, , Cornwall , has been discovered to possess strong . radio-active properties, and ' bottles of it have been sold at £3 : 10s : apiece. j Miss Catherine Barker, who is- 18 years of. age, whose 'home- is in Michigau City, and whose fortune amounts to £6^000,000, wishes it to' be generally known: that although' she 1 Iras received "literally thousands -of proposals^ of^ ,:mar.«* riag'ey" she* is at. prcseirt. not engaged. Owing: to the success of their moneyiending scheme, the Ilford Coimcil are borrowing £20,000 to extend ' the facilif ties* by which* ratepayers can borrow money to: buy house properly. Five hundred persons iiave already been enabled to buy their own homes, i A* \vonderful' wireless* telephone system; by whicii the voice is heard more clearly than oweri thc ordinary telephone over, a distance of 160 miles, has 'been invented ' by. two French naval officers; Mr Lloy^' George, in^a printed ans\ver* to a Earlia-mentary question,- states- that the average cost of armaments per head ofthe population, for this year is £1 13s lOd. -In 1895' it was £1 Os Id, and in 1900- rtud 1901^—the years of' the Boe^ war— it was over £3.

Mrs Gulter, of Vancouver (8.C.), proved, by the registration of a pedometer that she had' covered 400 iniles in' a month; in walking about her kitchen and living* i'Ooms while performing. her house-, hold duties. ' ..„,.. ■ Russian offi/ccrs won the King Edward -•'VII. Cold Cup itrthiv jumping competition at the International Horse Sliow foi' 'the third.<time-. It now becomes their absolute property. At' Aberyswyth Police Court yester-day-Charles Massey, who was for many years the borough accountant and 'who ; was arrested in Wanganui, New Zca? tand, was . remanded , on charges of embezzlement and forgery. " A' French landowner who sued throe aeroplane" firms- whose machines continually passed over, his- property has- been awarded £60 damages. The court con-: sidored that 'the aii' was absolutely free, but' it awarded' damages in respect' of too frequent landings' on tlw plaintiff's property. • : After being, open .for 10 days the Bristol In ter national J Exhibition at Ashton Pavkj on which 1 over < £100,000 has been spent, passed on Tuesday into the hands ; of. Messrs E. T» .' Collins, of: Bristolj as ■receivers acting, it is.' stated, oh behalf of theVdebenture-hold-Vs. '■•• J- J.' Thirracrir' persons were' drowned- by ihe capsizing: of', a ferry, while * crossing/theriver Dnieper. Six ; hussars ' wore drown; od while swimming-, their, horses across tho ; river Duiia. DEADLY HEAT WAVE. A hfetit' wave -has caused ; about fifty deaths .in America. * Tito middle Weston States and* the region, about*.* the Great Lakes-are suffering most. In .Chicago the temperature in 'the- shad© is 96deg. Many freophj are sleepihg. in the open, imd wearing, the scantiest' of light'-cloth-ing*. "•: BIG STEAMSHIP ASHORE. On June 18th the steamship Buolow of the China "Line of the, Nortvi. German Lloyd; ; went, ashore during' a fog near Myrtledenc,, to the west of Portland, England. . , ' BRITISH FREIGHTER IN PERU.. ' A despatch from JM'-ltila, dated , June 18th, fetates : Tli© British freight steamer Hyndford, duo iiero' in; June 21j is r_- : ported! ashore in. Albay • Gulf, . near. Legaspii. A typhoon is approachingJ from the southland grave.' fears arc expressed for.'.tlie v safetv :, of!the vessel ;- RIDING' ASTRIDE. A hoticeablo features of the daily parade; ih. th'o. Row (writes a London correspondent) is the increase in the number of fail';* equestriennes, who have adoptcd-tlio astride habit; 'It;is but a littlp while ago that, the sight of a lady riding »on horseback, in, any way other than on the* 7 sido-saddlC' in tins-fashion-able rendezvous coca-ioned' surpris-d wonder, but now the new vogue arouses'absolutely* no comment. . CARNEGIUS; OPTIMISM. JJMr* Ahdfcew; Carnegie* was oir Friday presented- with' 'the'- honorary; freedom'; of Lincoln, ancU hi/ acknowledging the. pre--entati6n,.^aid everythmg.yin this world was- growing* better, and would'continue I*o *do so.*. He-Tjelievcdthfewas the happiest maav alive. TOItNADO IN NORTH-WEST IOWA. A' tornado swept .north -west, of lowa oui Friday hight-i Seven: -people were . killed; landii a do«C(L Injured.'- Wliich damagb was. caoi-ed to property. Near Archer-)' a child was U>rn from its father's arms aaid ! dashed to deat lV against the ' sido of ! tho house-. ,400,000 TEETH' STOLEN. About 400,000 'artificial teeth <u id, -^old and platinum mountings, of. the total valuo of over £4000,' were stolen by bui'-j-lars front' the: premises; of' .ai firm al. dental instriuuentanakieis.in.tho Rue. St. Marc. ' • ■ • FIBE ON GLASGOW DOCKS. ■ Oh June 18.lv damage to the amount of: £100,000 r was done- by. fire at 7 King-; -ton. ddekf. hit the centre of- Glasgow. , Four schooners, several, freight slieds, and' a ljnmber of ; neighboring houses were bprned.^ Tlifr firo was- ennsed' by the careless, use*; of hot: ashes. •CHAIR. OF TOWNvBLANNING/ - Tho Somite of London University are. instituting a' part-time Chair of Tbwn--1 planning, tenable at University College; at a salary? "of £400,* a. year., The pro^ feasor \Vill-; act - in- co-jopfcration with, the Professor of Architecture -and the Chadwick ..Professor of Municipal Engineering, who deals with the 1 engineering aspects .-' of . town- plannirfK■Norway:, bans .uquor. ' The. Norwegian Parliament-, has. followed"' th©;le'ad of ofthVNavy " : Daniels;.bf the* United- States, -andmdopt? J cdf. a resolution i prohibiting,the consump? (; {ion of: intoxicating. • liqvpi'B ty. officers of the Norwegian army and" navy during their terms of service. LESSON' FROM THE BEE. "The secret oi flying is the bee," said Thomas A. Edison in a talk with a Philadelphia newspaper man. ' "Yesterday wc stopped in a glen, and I saw a '/bee one inch . long, lurec-oighUi_ ol' an

inch, thick,, with wings one-quarter of an inch* wide. ■JvThe*. body of the bee weighs seven thousand 'times- as much as the wings which ' propel it. When we can do this then wo will be doing something. The secret of the air is" thai it is as rigid as steel for- speed." .NEW INCANDESCENT LAMP.

At-'- tlie electrical congress now meeting at Cracow, Russia, General Manage? Lederel'*, of the Austrian Westinghouse Company, demonstrated, yesterday, a-, new kind of incandescent lamp substitutes rare gases for carbon or Jmetal thread'as the illuminating medium. The invention is considered a far-reach-ing- reform and made a- marked impression on the experts present. MIDNIGHT BALL.

So great 'has been the rush for tickets for the Midnight Ball, whicii will take place* at tho Savoy JHotel on June 20, in - aid of the National Institute for the Blind; 206 Great Portland Stteet, W.; that the price has reached 1 £5 5a a ticket; Prizes exceeding £2500 in value will bo distributed at the ball. They, include a £600 Daimler motor car, dresses from the best known modistes, jewellery, clocks, dressing-cases and plate, blouses an<J hats, orders on leading tailors, cigars, and cigarettes, wines and dinners at famous restaurants, passenger aeroplane flights, and boxes at nearly every West End theatre and music hall.