BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1599, 3 February 1906, Page 3

BY THE WAY.

The liuv. W. 11. Howes, of Waihola (and formerly of Pukerau), was inducted to the charge of Jlilburn Presbyterian parish on Wednesday last. A syndicate of newspaper owners in the North of England is contemplating tlitv use of wireless telegraphy tor news transmission. ('resident Roosevelt hus been presented by the inhabitants of Colorado, with a heart made of solid gold in recognition of his efforts to establish peace between Russia and Japan. A notorious miser of Berne, known as Father Aeby, who lived on a day, has left an estate worth £150,000, which, it is .expected, will fall into the hands of the State. It is proposed to hold a Laborers' Exhibition in Paris in 1909. The object will be to offer a .comparison between the life of workmen throughout the world to-dav and that of laborers in past centuries. Born in 1765, Frau Borjos has just died at Budapest, aged 117 years. The Konisev County Bench a few days ago lined an alleged poacher a farthing, without costs. In the German Estimates this year is included an item of ;CS;SOO.(KX> to cover the 'expenses of the African revolts. A white diamond, weighing 149!;" carats, has been found by a digger at Karrecpmi, near Kimberley, who sold iwfor £2091. King Edward dislikes khaki color, and it is by his wish that the Guards in London have been served with overcoats of a new blue-grey shade. For the third time in three years, .he wife of James Matthews, the Banbury carrier, has given birth to twins at llorley, Oxfordshire. Gipsy Smith, the well-known missioned is to receive an invitation to go to Australia as soon as he has lillcd his present engagements in England.

A Mi- Beer made a vigorous protest at a meeting of the Kast Preston, Sussc-\, Guardians against a suceesslul proposal to provide lln* paupers with Christmas beer. Since l'Ssl New South Wales luts exported C:i00,(«)0,fMWI worth of wool and worth of gold. Owing mainly to th<>-inubilit\- of the Government to lind a suitable'site foiling proposed Imperial memorial to all those who fell in the South African war, I lie scheme, has been abandoned. "Some pi'Opie die in Macedonia from natural causes, but the majority succumb to diflcrencu of opinion." This is how Mr Foster Frascr referred to the massacres in that Balkan Slate. Having read of the Japanese methods of com mitiing suicide, n retired uundarme, living- at Nice, France!, who was worried by debts, went to a lonely orange grove and attempted to commit "hara-kiri," 111 spite of Ills great age of 0!l.\ years. Jlr Mathcw Fauhls. an inhabitant of l'Vnwiel,-. near Kilmarnock, slill pursues Hi,, occupation of a weaver. which he lias followed for over Sll years. Ihe Auckland Hoot makers' Association has decided on a slight increase in the price of bools. In obedience to his doctor's advice, King Kdward will not attend the luii'Tal of the late King Christian. Natal papers cmphaticallv protest against tampering with the Trimsviuil Constitution on democratic principles. "will"' to the good season in Vic toria there is a large amount of surplus stock, and slock agents predict a big increase in exportations. A eh:irter has been granted to the Town and County ('lull at Mnstcrton lor the sale of alcoholic liquors on tlie premises. Ileports from Sydney and Brisbane indicate that the drought in those States has broken, T''e Hamburg-American liner Silvia, when leaving Vladivostock with liussian troops aboard, struck a mine, anil returned to port in a sinkiic- condition. Sir Thomas Lipton is willing to build a fourth Shamrock if the measurement and rules of thu American Cup are modified, 'I hi- ' Daily Mail's ' 31alta coiyespondent states that discontent among a section aboard the cruiser Carnarvon culminated in several throwing overboard the cimisg-siglUs belonging to the six-inch guns. Several arrests have been made. The Otago Trades and Labor Council. as the New Zealand Kxecutivc. records its great .satisfaction nt the success of (he Independent Labor party in the British elections, and decided to send a congratuldory let tor to jMr Ki'ir liartlir. ('hiiia lias sent u st.oamov to 000 Chinamen from Vladivostock. Others wish l<i Irnvo as tlm troubled continue.