NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7190, 7 January 1902, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

MISS STONE SEEN.

According to the Sofia correspondent of the New York Journal, a ttnlgarism clergyman visited Miss Stone on Nov. 11. She was imprisoned m the house of Bel; ir Bey in the town of Ceres, in Macedonia. Both Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka are well, but the strain upon them lias been terrible, anil there is a danger that Miss Stone may lose her reason. The chief of the brigands is now stated to be an Albanian named Derrick Yououss, and Bokir Bey is hand in glove with him. Bokir materially assisted the bandits by keoping Miss Stone for thirty days in the Pcriu mouutiius before Inking her to his harem. If the American, English, and French Consuls at Salonika insisted upon Belcir Boy releasing Miss Stone, it would not be necessary to deal with the brigands, aud the captives' liberty could thus be obtaiued without ransom.

BUEIED ALIVE.

Ail extraordinary story is reported from Pauillae. (Paris). A Mnio. Robin arrived ther* ou board tho steamer La Plata from Senegal. She was supposed to be suffering from yellow foyer, and was transfered to the lazaret by order of the officer of health. There "she became worse, and apparently died. The body became rigid, and the face ashen and corpse-like, and in that condition she was buried. The nurse, however, noticed that Ihe body was not cold, and that there was tremulousness of the muscles of the abdomen, and expressed the opinion that Mine. Robin was prematurely buried. On this being reported to Mme. Robin's father, ho had the body exhumed, when it was found that a child had been born in the coflin. The autopsy showed also that Mme. llobin had not contracted yellow fever, and had died from asphyxiation in the eollin. A suit was begun against the health olliuers and the prefect, which resulted in a verdict for £8000 damages against them.

CARTRIDGE EXPLOSION

A spark from a soldier's cigarette- exploded the powder from some damaged cartridges lliat were being emptied by a party of twenty artillerymen in the Corunna Barracks, Spain. The explosion caused Ike whole storehouse io burst into Jlamc, 300,000 cartridges exploded, the builds flying in all directions. Three men have entirely disappeared ; it is feared that they were blown to pieces. The survivors are dying from their wounds. By great exertions the engineers prevented the neighbouring store, which was filled with shells, from' catching fire

RISE IN BOOK VALUES.

Mr .Tames Tregaski, the well-known bookseller, states that of the last four copies sold of the first folio of Shakespeare three have gone to America and one to New Zealand. Mr Tregaski lias just published his _ five-hundredth catalogue, and he says in the introduction : "A few months ago I purchased for ;C2o a Pliny printed in 1-170, and on examination it turned out to be a copy I had sold a few years previously for £5 15s. At the William Morris sale I bought back a Hippocrates for £.10 10s, which I had sold to (hat great poet and book-lover sonic years before for eight guineas. Recently, also, Incunabula, early printed books, have been bought at auctions for fiftem or sixteen shillings and sold for as many guineas."

' IWN" ON POST OFFICE BANK,

The miners o? South Wales, in add'tion to restricting ihc output of coal, are indulging in a "run", on the local branches of the Post office Savings Bank. The "run" commenced at Mountain Ash. The panic spread to Cilfynydcl, and then to all the branch officers at Pontypridd and in the Rhondda 'Valley. Of the S.OOU depositors in the affected district over a thousand have handed in withdrawal notices. The panic is due to ignorance. A public speaker stated that the nionev lodged in the Savings Bank was used by the Government for carrying on the war, that Government stocks were going down, and tliat the Government were bankrupt. The more ignorant of the miners took this empty talk seriously, with the result that several thousand pounds have been withdrawn. The prompt manner in which the claims are met and the example of the more sensible oE the miners are expected to put an end to the foolish alarm in a few days. A similar " run" took place at Merthyr a low weeks ago; but when tho miners began to discuss the subject the absurdity of tho situation was recognised and the rush o[ withdrawals ceased. The miners' lodgments in the Savings Bank have been considerable of late. For two years wages have been high, many earning four and even five pounds a week.

MR WINANS'S MILLIONS.

Tho Court of Appeal at Homo decided that Mr William Louis Winans, a multimillionaire of American birth, who died in 1897, wns domiciled in England. The question of domicilo aroso out of an information preferred by tho AttorneyGeneral with tho object of recoveriri" legacy duty. At the time of his death Mr Winara had personal property in this country valued at upwards of .£2,500,000, and upon this estate duty had been paid. Tho present appeal had reference only to a claim to legacy duty on an annuity of £2,000 which Mr Winuus bad left to his sister-in-law, Ellen de la Hue. The- court below decided in favour of the Crown. In support of the appeal Mr Asquith said that Mr Winaus was born in America of American parents. In 1800 he went to Russia on railway business, and in tho following year ho married a Guernsey lady at St. Petersburg. Between 1858 and his death lie spent the winters at Brighton, and up to JS7O lie went to Russia each mmmer. In 1870 Mr Winans acquired leases of large tracks of forest land in Inverness-shire and Eoss, a,nd practically turned the whole of thi3 property into n, deer preserve, spending on one deer forest alono £1 00,000 in tea years. The value of tho stngs on the oatato was estimated nt »CIOO,OOO v --g5~ also had a residence in Leag^, and offices"at Bcaufort-gardeagf 'I'ho offices S£si^-^il \ in illvontion

tor spindle or cigar-shaped ships, which lie intended to sail under tho American flag. On the London house ho spent £100,000. Mr Asqui'h submi ted that the Crown had failed to prove that the original dowicilo had been changed.

Tho Mttstor of tho Rolls, in giving judgment, said the deceased was undoubtedly an American by birth who from choico had mado this country his domicile, and tho appeal would ihereforo bo dismissed.

KILLED BY A TOY SWORD.

Lawrence Cusack, a child of thrco years, playing as his home in Brighton with toy soldiers tripped on a carpet and ran one of tho tiny swords into his nock. It ,vas pullod out, but tho child evontually died. At tho inquest tho surgeon who made the post mortem said ho found about an inch of tho sword deeply embedded in tho spinal cord.

MEDICAL HEROISM.

Dr William Smyth, dispensary doctor of Dungloo, county Donegal, having learned that there was a case of virulent typhuß on the island of Arranmoro, with difficulty prooured an old boat, and, accompanied by another doctor, wont o«er and brought tho patient to the mainlaud. Dr Smyth, howovor, contracted the diseaso and died in a few days. His predecessor mot his death under oxactly similar ciroumstancos.

MEDICAL BIEN TAKE UMBRAGE,

At a meeting of tho Macclesficld infirmary governors to considor tho resignation of tho honorary medical staff —who vacated tlioir positions in a body as a protest against the appointment of Miss Murdoch Clarke, of Glasgow, to tho juniar house surgeonsbip—it was decided to meet the medical mon in conference on tho matter. Dr Murdoch Clarke has commonced hor duties.

THE PREMIER AND HIS CRITICS.

In aekuowledging a vote of confidonco iti tho Government passed by tho Ebor Habitation of the Priinroso League, Lord Salisbury,* writing to Miss Milner, says : " I thank you heartily for tho noto in which you have forwarded it. Wo need much oncouragotuent, for Englaud ia, I believe-, tho only country in which during tho progress of a great war, eminont men write and Bpeak publicly as if they belonged to tho enemy."

MARRIAGE AND MISERY

In tho London Divorce Court evidence was heard in a petition presented by Mrs Adams, wife of Mr J. 11. Adams, formerly a champion cyclist and manager of a cycle company, for a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's cruelty. Mr Adams went into the box and said that his wife had frequently abused him in the presence of his secretary and clerks. She had inoro than once followed him to railway stations and taken hold of his coat tails in order to prevent him leaving without her. He was afraid to invite friend!- to dinner, as he was never certain of his wife's temper. This state of affairs had existed since three or four mouths after their marriage. A servant said she has seen Mrs Adams knock off her husband'd hat and kick it about the hall, but itseemed to be "six of one and half-a-dozen of the other." Another servant stated that Mrs Adams used to get into "dreadful passions" and clear the mantelpiece of the ornaments. Once there was a "'tremendous row" about money, and Mrs Adams got into n violent passion and tore up a pink blouse.

AS EVENTFUL CAREER.

The death is aunouueed of Admiral Lord Hood, of Avulon, at tho age of seventy-seven. He was the son of Sir Alexander Hood, Bart., and grandson of Captain Alexander Hood, who accompanied Captain Cook in'one of his voyages round the world. He entered the Royal Navy when ho was only twelve years of age. While still v midshipman young Hood saw active service on the- coast of Syria in IS4O, and was present at the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre. He was made a lieutenant in 18-10. In the Crimean war he was engaged with the Naval Brigade iv the operations before Sevastopol. He saw active service again in the Chinese war of 1857-SS, while in command of the Acorn. Tho full rank of Admiral was attained in 18Sb", and he was First Sen Lord of the Admiralty from 1885 to 1889, an exciting period in the history of the British Navy. He was raised to the peorago in 1892, and the title expires with him.