NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7386, 12 February 1902, Page 4

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

London, January 4. It is proposed to hold the Coronation military review on Salisbury Plain.

On March sth the Prince will cut the first sod of the new dock at Avonmouth, to be constructed at a cost of £2,000,000. Two barristers came to blows in a Marseilles court. The judges adjourned the court. A duel is to follow.

A £40,000,000 concession for the eleotrification of Russian tramlines has been granted by the Russian Government to an American syndicate.

A great office building, twenty-two storeys high, is to be erected in New York at a cost of £800,000.

A well-known Birmingham solicitor has disappeared. Large sums of trust money are said to be missing. The trail of the Coronation ie over us all. It has already reached the unsuspecting infant. A happy couple intended to have their newly-born daughter christened " Coronatia."

A £250,000,000 trolly find telephone .syndicate in America has been very badly hit. It has been taken over by bankers.

Huge developments are projected by the Central London Railway. The Tube is to be extended from six miles to a complete circle of fourteen, at a cost of £3,500,000.

The Queen sent a 'bus-load of toys to the Cheyne Walk Hospital for Children. Many other gifts from Royalty helped to brighten the day for patients in London hospitals.

The record in life insurance policies has been broken. Mr F. H. Peavey, of New York, who has just died, was insured for £200,000.

The Queen sent a Christmas gift to General Booth for the Salvation Army, with which the Royal Family have always shown sympathy.

Certain Russian newspapers advocate that Britain should take advantage of the tariff war between Germany and Russia, and push its manufactures in the latter country.

Great quantities of lilies of the valley, as being the Queen's flower, are being planted, in view of the Coronation. One dealer has already had an order lor 14,000,000 bulbs.

Only L 35,000 is now required to complete the Wesleyans' Twentieth Century Million Guineas Fund.

It is stated that Lord Rosslyn has done very badly with bis system at Monte Carlo. Nevertheless, he says that he has a surprise up his sleeve.

It is feared that the extraordinary honeymoon of Captain Andrews and his bride, who set out to cross the Atlantic in a thirteen- foot boat, has had a fatal termination.

Clemency might well be extended at the Coronation, it is suggested, to soldiers sentenced to heavy terms for Bleeping at their posts on the veldt.

The Chicago Tribune publishes a list of donations of more than £200 to colleges, liDrarieß, and museums during the past year. These make up a sum of £24,777,742.

The interior decorations of Westminster Abbey at the Coronation will be on a most lavish scale. The seating accommodation will be increased in order to find room for 10,000 people.

Dr Barnardo's Homes have received the magnificent present of an estate near Sandringham, with buildings that.oost £30,000, from Mr E. H. Watts, a city shipper. Another Yankee invasion is promised us. This time it is a polo team, which will compete with us in an international match.

A serious riot occurred at Ness, in the island of Lewis, when a force of police officers, who has gone to enforce a sheriff's order regarding the opening of a church, was badly stoned by the mob.

A waterspout is reported in Morocco, resulting in enormous damage and the loss of 200 lives.

The report that the United States Government proposes to remit three-fourths of its share of the indemnity from China has been received with a chorus of disapproval. The total claims filed amount to about £69,000,000.

Remarkable evidence was given by the Birmingham Chief Constable yesterday at the inquest on the man killed in the recent riots over Mr Lloyd-George's pro-Boer meetings. Revolvers were used by the crowd, and no fewer than ninety-seven policemen injured.

Copper money in France is to be gradually replaced this year by aluminium bronze pennies of a pale yellow color.

According to official central market statistics lecently issued, 800 tons of snails were sold in Paris during the year 1901.

The Italian Minister of Poats and Telegraphs addressed a complimentary message from Turin to President Loubet over the new telephone route, a distance of 500 miles.

Lord Bosebery, after receiving the freedom of Swansea, made municipal government the text of his speech. He allotted to the work of a local councillor a degree of importance hardly less than to that performed in Parliament itself.

Thirty tons of magazines and other literature have been sent out to the troops in Blockhouse Btreet, South Africa. Every transport between Empress Dock and Table Bay has now a consignment of not less than 10,000 periodicals, which, with the stook in hand, does not fair far short of half a million magazines and illustrated papers. According to the latest compilation, ■there are over 400 persons in America who are known to be millionaires, and there are probably a good many more who keep their wealth hidden in order to shirk taxes. In fact (remarks a 'Frisco paper), a millionaire will soon cease to be anything remarkable in any community in this country. Tho first locomotive reached Port Florence, the terminus of the Uganda Railway on Victoria Nyanza, on December 20. The first rail at the sea coast end was laid on August 8, 1896, and the 582 miles of line from the coast to the lake have thus been completed in four years and four and a half months.

The probable date of the great naval review at Spitbead during the Coronation oeremonies is Saturday, June 28. The King and Queen, with members of the Royal Family, will embark at Portsmouth on His Majesty's new yaoht, the Victoria and Albert, and a royal flotilla will inspect the fleet at Spithead. The navies of foreign Powers will, it is anticipated, be well represented.

The last spike on the neW Canadian Northern Bail way connecting Lake Superior and Winnipeg was driven on December 30. The road is now open for traffic 1500 miles. It passes through Manitoba, and will be continued westward to the Pacific coast to' form a new transcontinental line north of the Canadian Pacific, and traversing an exceedingly fertile prairie country. During the year just closed Canada reached the highest mark in her progress hitherto attained. Compared with ten years ago, her exports have just doubled, having increased from £19,600,000 to £89,200,000 ; while her imports have grown from £23,000,000 to £38,000,000. The public deposits in the banks now amount to £81,400,000. More than 500 people have been thrown out of employment by the fire whioh occurred at Messrs Todd, Burns, and Co.'s drapery establishment in Dublin on New

Year's morning, and as many of them had to fly for their lives half dressed, the Lord Mayor is taking steps to raise a fund for their relief. The fire, whioh was the largest Dublin has witnessed for twenty years, covered nearly an acre and a half. The damage is' estimated at £120,000. Other " outside damageß " are estimated at £40,000.

I Australia is determined to do without Birmingham, so far as jewellery is concerned. The Southern Continent has succeeded in diverting the bulk of the home trade, and there are signs that the colonial manufacturers will still further command the market. One of the largest makers in Australia is now on his way to this country to engage forty of the best working jewellers he can find to take back to the colonies. The district between Pretoria and Johannesburg for miles around is now almost as safe as Piccadilly, says a Pretoria despatch of January Ist. Markets are booming, and a large amount of property is changing hands daily. Land seven miles from Johannesburg is selling at £50 an acre in anticipation of the growth of the great city with its electric tramways and wide radiating suburbs. It is understood that arrangements have been made for the almost immediate despatch of 30,000 natives from Mozambique. GIGANTIC STEAMEB. English papers report thai the White

Star Line are about to beat their own and the world's record in shipbuilding. The Celtic, of the White Star Line, is at present the largest vessel in the world, and, although she has accommodation in all for nearly 3000 passengers, she was principally built to carry a large cargo. She is about 21,000 tons gross, and has no fewer than nine decks.

The new vessel, which is being built at Belfast, will be even larger than thn Celtic, both in length and dead- weight carrying capacity, and will be named the Cedric. She is not intended to be a " flyer," but will be designed to carry an even larger cargo than the Celtic. The White Star Line are also building three new steamers for their New Zealand and colonial service.

SOUTH SEA MASSACBE.

A correspondent in Samoa wtites to the Cologne Gazette giving a hitherto unknown explanation of the killing of Dr Menke, leader of a German scientific expedition in the South Sea Islands, Bismarck Archipelago. The correspondent says that Dr Menke and his party ruthlessly destroyed a number of palm trees, of whioh there were but few on the island, and the natives acted in defence of, their property. The German punitive expedition sent to avenge the killing of Dr Menke and his party, which landed from the German cruiser Cormoran, near the scene of the massacre, killed eighty-one islanders. " Suoh is the civilisation," says the Vorwaerts, "that our colonial politicians are spreading."

SHAKESPEABE-BACON CONETOVEBSY.

Mr Mallock's adhesion to the Baconian theory has set the tide of controversy flowing briskly in the columns of The Timeß . We (says the Spectator) have no intention of emulating the hospitality of our contemporary, but may permit ourselves one observation on the correspondence so far as it has gone. The fault of most ciphers is that they prove so little, but that twoedged weapon, the biliteral cipher, as wielded by Mrs Gallup, proves a great deal too much. It has shown, in the passage quoted with enthusiasm by Mr Mallock, that Bacon in his secret autobiography modelled his prose style on the pseudo-eighteenth-century English of the American novelist. Mr Marston has further demonstrated that in his translation of Homer, Bacon " cribbed " freely from Pop 6; and finally, Professor Skeat has pointed out that whereas one of the cipher sentences runs, "Look at the Headings of the Comedies," the word " heading " was not used in this sense before the nineteenth century. At this rate, we need not be surprised to find Mr Kipling's " Kirn " bodily embedded in the text of some Elizabethian folio.

A TOWEB IN POECELAIN.

A Sevres porcelain tower is to be erected on the heights of St. Cloud, the spot where the famous Diogenes lantern was destroyed in 1871. The tower will be 148 ft high and 26ft in diameter. There will be seven stories and a double winding staircase inside. It will be built, inside and out, entirely of ceramic stoneware and porcelain, and will be decorated externally with blue; turquoise, emerald green, brown, coral, and rose tints on a white porcelain background. The color 3 will be a perfect polychromatic poem from base to summit, idealising the fauna and flora and legends of the Forest of St. Cloud.

The work is about to be commenced at the State manufactory at Sevres. The tower will beoomposed of 30,000 pieces, whioh will require 100 bakings. It will be completed in fire years.