HOME, FOREIGN & INTERCOLONIAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2167, 2 May 1907, Page 4

HOME, FOREIGN & INTERCOLONIAL.

Bookmakers Fined. For trespassing on the Eiccarlon racecourse at the autumn meeting four bookmakera were lined £lO and £5 each. Tobacco Ohewers Beware. A woman named Caroline Cress died in tha Blenheim district as the result of chewing tobacco. A verdict of death by nicotine poi3oning was returned. Diver Hughes. Diver Hughes was honored in Sydney by the Lord Mayor and the Premier. Potato Blight. Potato blight has been discovered in flßTKftl crops in the Oamaru district. A £lO Fine. For selling thanks offerings by auction at a Methodist harvest festival a man named Roebuck was fined £lO and costs. He officiated as auctioneer without a license. Efforts are being made to got the fine remitted. Danger in India. According to a Calcutta newspaper the

Hindus and Mohammedans are, in different places, secretly arming, and serious trouble is threatened. Sir J. CI. Ward. During the course of his spocch at the Colonial Institute dinner Sir .loseph said bo strongly favored an active policy to biing the .-.aavy at Home and abroad to the highest Wjjfej&wint' of strength and perfection in times of W'jieace, so that they might he fully equipped zor any unexpected emergency. Coal was nvailable at the mines of Greymouth and Wft3tport, and was amongst the finest qualities in the world. He spoke on various important matters, and urged that faster steamers be provided across the Atlantic and j Pacific, and Australia and New Zealand to within 20 days of London. American Disasters. A railway pier in course of construction at Baltimore suddenly collapsed, killing eight and injuring eighteen. A tornado destroyed the village of Hemlug fTexaa). Eight perished. Several fatalities occurred in neighboring villages. Hailstone drifts two feet in height impeded railway traffie. Valuable Discovery. A disoovery of magnificent colored marble has been made in the Omeo district, Viotoria, It has been traced for 1G miles. White marble has also been found. Bats. One hundred thousand ratu are annually destroyed in Sydney, but the number does not appear to decrease. Nature in Kevolt. Stromboli is in eruption. An earthquake shock shattered windows and broke the cable between Lipari and Stromboli. Discovery of Bombs. Siiteen bombs have been discovered in a villa which General Kaulbars rentod as a summer house in Odessa. Billiards. A London table tays that Cook made a break o! 19,780 (unfiinshed), including 08OJ by anchor cannons, and beat Haverson by 24,000101312.