MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 136, 19 June 1901, Page 1

MAIL NEWS.

London, April 13. Forty-seven thousand one hundred and seven emigrants left Ireland in 1900, being 3,347 more than in 1899. They were all young people, over 20,000 of them being unmarried girls. Tbe World correspondent hears that the committee of the American Society of London was almost split on the proposition that subscriptions to the Queen Victoria memorial fund should bo solicited through representatives of the. society in in the United States. Ultimately a majority proved to bo in favor of seeking this, aid for. the fund, and Mr Vanduzer,-tfie former honorary secretary of the society,’ was commissioned to spy out the larlcl with that object. In England the response to the appeal has been sadly disappointing, and the promoters are now at work upon an elaborate seh'emo ’to ask for penny subscriptions. The English version of Dreyfus’s autobiography, to be published May 1, consists of 60,000 words. It has been translated by James Mortimer, who says : “ Tho book is .written with great feeling, and it will surprise me if Dreyfus's sufferings do not constitute one of the most poignant narratives in any language. The book also has been written with absolute candor. No less noteworthy is Dreyfus’s restraint in dealing with those responsible for his inhuman treatment.

“ One of the most touching passages is whore, after an interview with his wife at Ilcdcre, Feb. 21, 1895, he is suddenly informed that he is about to start for an unknown destination without even taking leave of his family.”

Paris, April 13. The Kaiser, whose nerves evidently have been shaken by his Bremen experience, has engaged, in addition to the manifold other precautions taken for his personal safety, three of tho most famous Freueh detectives. They will bo added to the international force of- picked sleuthhounds whose mission it is to discover possible plots against the German Emperor’s life. Two Americans, who registered at their hotel as Thomas Davis and Edward Richard, are much wanted by the Paris police. They made a specialty of getting acquainted with the most stylish demiruondaines and stars of the music-halls, and the joyous suppers which sealed the acquaintances were ended with knock-out drops. In three weeks, tho police say, these men drugged two dozen women, getting 60,000 dollars in money and jewels.

The French Government has just despatched a gunboat to Tangier to demand swift reparation for an outrage perpetrated by Morocco pirates last week upon some tourists fi;om Oran, Algeria. Paul Pouzet, a wealthy planter of the Algerian colony, accompanied by his two daughters, aged eighteen and twenty years respectively, and tho husband of the eldest daughter, went on a shooting expedition on a small chartered steamer, near the rocks of Riff, Morocco. Native pirates boarded the vessel during the night, killed the two owners of the steamer and one of the crew, looted the craft and kidnapped the two girls, whose whereabouts is now unknown. . .

The crime.is causing great excitement along the Algerian coast. St. Petersburg, April 13. —Repin’s famous Tolstoi portrait has led to "the closing by the authorities of the picture gallery where it was tho chief attraction.

Tolstoi’s admirers decorated the picture with flowers. The proprietor of the gallery, who disobeyed the order to remove it, has been arrested and the gallery closed. One of the wreaths laid before the picture was from American and British admirers of Tolstoi. This especially enraged the authorities.