NEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 12

NEWS AND NOTES.

On the 29th. July the anniversary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl, | founder of the Zionist movement, was celebrated, by special services throughout the United Kingdom. JTifjty thousand pounds is the fee demanded by, and may be paid to, Clarence A. Knight, for legal services rendered in straightening out tno estate of the late Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago, the traction magnate. The master in chancery, Granville W. Browning, who was appointed as referee, declares that the fee is just. He not only gave it as hi* opinion that Knight was entitled to the full amount, but that he well deserved it for honest and loyal work in recouping the dissipating properties following the street car man's death in 1905. Trustees and beneficiaries have been fighting through the courts for the various possessions left by Yerkes both in the United States and in England. General de Beylie, commanding tne French troops in Cochin China, and Dr. Rouffiandis have been drowned by the upsetting of a boat on the Mekong River. General de Beylie was a distinguished author and archaeologist. He was best known for his archaeological discoveries in Burma and Mesopotamia, where lie met American scientific missions from the Smithsonian Institution, which was much interested in his work. He was born iv Strnsbnrg in 1849. Six men were indicted at the London Central Criminal Court recently for conspiring to print and sell copies of the lale Oscar Wilde's "De Prot'undis," in contravention of the copyright, held by Mr. Robert Ross. Philip Fleming Bokenham, who was in the position of publisher, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment; John Wesley Puddifoot, the pi inter, carrying on business as the Milton Press, was given a month's imprisonment; Albert Bowdcn, proprietor of a coifee-house, who, the prosecution alleged, allowed his place to be used for the sale of the pirated copies, was hned £30. In one case the prosecution was withdrawn, and two other cases stood over for trial. The Tagliche Rundschau, a. Bei-lin journal, states that the German gun and small arms industry is benefiting largely at present by foreign orders. Brazil, which is introducing the Mauser rifle in her army, has ordered 200,000 rifles from a single German factory, and the other South American States are also large purchasers of German military rifles. Important orders have been placed in Germany by the Balkan States, especially by Turkey, Servia, and Roumania, for machine guns, and, adds the Rundschau, an order for 200,000 Mausers for Argentina was recently completed. While fishing in the Grand Junction Canal at Willesden, London, one day recently, a boy fell into the water. A well-dressed man dived in and rescued him, and then, refusing his name, walked quickly away in his wet clothes. The sea front of Belgium, which extends only about forty miles, stretching from Holland to France, is paved almost entirely for the entire length, and forms one huge, wide ocean boulevard. And this, it is stated, is the most productive of public works in the kingdom. The Weekly Dispatch considers that the abrupt termination of the short-lr-ed striKe on the North -Eastern Railway is a credit to the officials of the trade union and a genuine tribute to the good sense of the men themselves. They were wrong to strike, but it is not often that people who are in the wrong can be got to admit it so readily. After forty-five years' imprisonment in Italy a brigand named Giuseppe Tarantino, aged sixty-five, who was sentenced ti- penal servitude for life, has been released on account of good conduct, states the Daily Mail's correspondent. A gold rush to Steinkopf, Namaqualand, tht> noitb-west part of Cape Colony bordering on German South- West Africa, is due to the discovery of samples of soft quartzite assaying 18dwt. of gold to the ton. No reef has yet been discovered, and it is a matter of pure speculation whether mining will pay. At a recent meeting of the shareholders of the Fidelity and Trust Company, a banking concern of Louisville, Kentucky, the announcement was made that tbe entire surplus of the institution, amounting to £268,000, had been lost by defalcations which August Ropke, the assistant secretary, now under arrest, is said to have admitted. The fact, bxxt not the extent of the loss, was discoverei some time ago. Ropke had been with the bank for eighteen years. Some years agro lie began to dabble on the stock and grain markets. At first he was successful, and in one deal he is said to have won £49,000. Then his luck turned. The keeping out of Lord Kitchener is being quite skilfully managed, the Saturday Review remarks. He wants to refit and recorganise armies ; it is not to be thought for a moment that if he got high military power just now he and the officials could lub it off comfortably. An explosion, due to the ignition of a case of gelatine, occurred on 21st July at the Simmer East Deep Mine, Johannesburg. Thirteen whites and seventy-six natives w°re taken to the hospital, while fifteen natives lost their lives. The ancient city of Tarsus, in Asia Minor, where the Apostle Paul was born, is now illuminated by electricity. The power is taken from the Cydnus River. There are now in Tarsus 450 electric street lights and about 600 incandescent lights for private use. It is proposed to extend the lighting system to Adana and Mersine. The new rules regulating motor traffic under the international convention, passed in October last, are now about to come into operation. Under these (writes Reuter's Paris correspondent) the owners of touring cars must be provided with travelling pass-books, and the cars must bear a plate showing the horse-power, weight, and other particulars, and also a plate showing the country of origin, while the driver must be over eighteen and have a certificate with his photograph. " Judpre Gaynor, Mayor of New York, who holds that "all honest folk should be in bed befoi-e midnight," would find Vienna a city after his own heart. The Viennese are subject to a form of impost unknown in America, the "sperrgeld," or door-opening tax. They all live in flats, and the street entrance is invariably bolted at 10 p.m. When the bolts are drawn, persons passing in or out must, pay twopence until midnight and foin-pence from that nour until 6 a.m. This toll is levied every time you go through the doorway. If you post a letter you have to pay to go out and pay to come in. If you dine with a friend and stay smoking until the small hours it costs you fourpence to leave his house and fourpence to enter your own. The janitors or "housemasters," .is the -Viennese call them, draw handsome incomes from this source, although persons liberal in other respecls, strongly object to paying "sperrgeld." and will hurry over a costly dinner to savo two pence. Following the increased cost of cigars and cigarettes in France, the pip© has lately come into unprecedented favour with French "smokers, says the Paris Figaro,