WARNING TO AMERICANS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 378, 6 August 1903, Page 3

WARNING TO AMERICANS.

few— JMawalar SnvwlMflr tfce Taw. '». •'« •** ■* <*«•■*» After Brtnte*. '•'- ' Bbs Waited.States consulate in Lon#»S ha* issued a circular warning Americans who seek English fortunes and landed estates that moat of such claims are spurious. The dreamers ore erf three classes in general, the object •t their quests being landed estates, money supposed to be lodged in th« Bank of England and unclaimed chancery funds. The circular says: "As to land, no action to recover real ©etate in Great Britain can bo brought after 12 years from the;time-'the Tightaccrued, or, in case of disabilities or infaney,' afterl3o, yearsV" JtMs' Cpw digious error to think that there is unclaimed property deposited in the Bank of England and earning fabulous inter^si a record of unclaimed stock and dividends aiid nothing else. Anyone who,thinkahimaejf entitled to these must f urni'sh precise details respecting>he name of the stockholder, the.amount of the holding and the date of issue. 'The t©tal amount of- unclaimed chancery, funds is only ajbout £ ; Not more than half that sum exceeds £l5O per account, and not niore than one-seTenteenth of these exceed «1,000." Consul General Osborne said recently: "Tfys consider that havje a dull week when less than eight or ten of our fellow countrymen apply for milliondollar fortunes. Ninety-nine per cent. of the cases submitted are .entirely Tiaionary; Advertisements for alleged heirs or next of-kin are'the source pf many of these great expectations.- %A thriring business is done by some al-'" leged agents who thus traffic in Yankee t*ti»tfulneas." : v?w--v ~-"^[

TBI SHIP'S COW BOOED. » Btass* tike Fe«lioFN and Mistook 14 V' ' tee a Relative—The Mrs-" *s*y Explains*. * The captain of an English steamer spun a yarn- tjhe other day of the mysterious "Bqo-o-o" which answered his foghorn. Be was steaming down the channel, when the thick fog came on. At such tjmes she never leaves the bridge, and sounds the foghorn himself. -On this occasion, after sounding the signal, h©:heatd a foghorn in reply right ahead. He turned the ship's head .a point to avoid coV Hsibn, and then sounded again. Again the reply cam* "800-o-o," right ahead as before. ?• The vessel's head was .put back to the same position as at first, and once more the foghorn was sounded. Still the reply came, as before, right ahead, "800-o-o." "It was very strangej X could not make it out," said the captain, telling the yarn. "I tried again; still the same 'Boo-o-o' right ahead. A feeling of superstition began to creep over me, and I was giving myself s menial shake to pull myself together, when the lookout man forward called outs 'lt's the old air.' And ,ao ia truth it Was —the milk eow kept ;on the forecastle for the use of the ship, "She, no doubt, took the •boo-o-o-ing* at the signal for the cry otf a com* pantos fa dittoes** sa4 go** a qympn* *hefcie response." " }

OSTRACISES FOR HUWARITT.

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jkM B p«ttaJ% for feeiatf *©• frameae Prises Alpho@s«, the nephew of the ••agent of Bavaria, has been giren the "Blue Letter." Xb American ainng vernacular this might be interpreted to nieais tfcei ho wiM hereafter receive the "marble heart" in select official eirelee. Tfce "Slue Letter" means official degradation. Me is, li seems, too humane lor his unele and the military commander*, and he has i been, called upon to suffer for hie ■«■*» ananity. He was asked to resign from the Bararian army for no other reason ithan. that he was too,gentle and easygoing with those under his command. Jle is not severe enough to please the military, and the mistake he made Was to manifest too much consideration for the horses under his charge, •St was during the last maneuvers. ■ 6n reaching a steep and stonj I descent, Prince Alphonse ordered the Snen to dismount, so that the horses might he spared. It is said that ,'th« herder completely upset the plan of action. Popular feeling is intense against the authorities who hare brought about the prince's dismissal, for he has always been popular with the subjects of his uncle. It is i be* iliered to be the first time a Bavarian, prince has received the' "BlueLettor* A ■•w VrK&umt. " Yegstaline is a new product pre* pared from the cocoa,nut, that is being manufactured by s Marseilles firm. It it a kind of butter, which, it is stated, is especially adapted- to the uses of bakers and confectioners. The article Is harder and whiter than butter, which ft only resembles in its fatty ft is obtained by refining the olljaxfi fg'jftOt of the dried cocoa nut. i Jy

§CIE!!CBAKD IH»USTR¥. v 'Among ths 283 medical journals p aWished in the United States, *« *r© devoted exclusively to hygiene. Utah has more than doubled it* Manufacturing plants sines 1890, sh« Bwnbav increasing from SSO to 1,400. A German naturalist soys thai in esse of an early spring a a ingle pair of field mice may, by tha end of thft autumn, be tha proud ancestors of 200 mice. Of 100 unite of work done in Great Britain, IS are aecompliahed by manpower unaided by machinery. In tha United States only four per cant, of work ia done by man-power. British medical journals of high authority insist that ozone ean be artificially produced at reasonable expense to purify the air in tunnels, sewers and other places in London. The results achieved in Germany with the open-<Mr treatment of consumption hare been, so remarkable *hat the number of special hospitala has rapidly increased to 60, with 5,000 beds. Sir William Crookes ha* just announced to the Royal as element of a pale brown eolor which he calls rictorium. It ranks between yttrium and terbium and has an atomic weight of 17 and a spectrum in the ultra-violet region. In order to examine the spectrum an apparatus has been constructed which will measure to the one hundred thousandths of an inch. A Strasburg aeronaut says he has seen an eagle at the height of 3,000 metere and again a pair of storks and a buzzard 900 meters above, the. sea level. On March 10, 1890, some aeronauts observed a lark flying at the height of 1,000 meters; on July 18, 1899, another balloon met a couple of crows at an altitude of 1,400 meters. These, however, are exceptions. Birds are hardly srer a seen above a height of 1,000 meters; even above 400 meters they are not frequent. * ' • ■•