Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7401, 17 September 1902, Page 3

Mail News.

;N OK THE BALDWIN j i._"PI.I>IT!ON. j •iciaicd Press has received ng telegram from Mr Kvc-.-ldwin, leader of the Baltl- : expedition, -which has ur•loniiingsvaa'',, Norway :— inive at Tromsoc on Sale have been ballled, mil rCvery man is iv good his year's work has been '" The message goes on 1o depots of condensed foods i establish, d ut various id these will afford means ii'ge Poli-.r dash next year, ling up of the ice early in Belled us to use our reserve coal, and hence our deparCamp Kiegl'er on July 1 in to imperil the expedition. tched fifteen balloons with iges in .June. We have olic first moving pictures oi 'c. Wo discovered Nansen's ovcrilig the original doeuthere, and securing paintthe hut. We have also serine collections ''"' 'he iNa[uselini, new charts, etc. iicn, witli thirteen'pomes, and si.vti" sletlge.s were eint field M'oik from January ,y ai. this severe wuilc rer: Ihc (lest ruction of the this, and the depletion of :or the ponies and the dogs, n return imperative. We ; Tromsoc one week for the i our rudder and propeller oken by the screwing of the c return voyage. Our main as lost in a gale in October ESS AND OFFICER, vie Greene, the pretty acting in " The Country Girl" ~ had a new part. She apn the .Maidenhead Police nrosecutc Mr Edmund Dnpidrt young gentleman, gazctle Ith Dragoons, for alleged her jewels, worth £130. It curious story. Miss Temple tpies " The Shanty," on the Estate, Maidenhead, said Thursday she left her resit two in the afternoon to to London, leaving Mr Dupsome friends. He asked if t. remain in the garden ami

- paper in the hammock, her friend Miss Lonsdale aln to do. When she returned ight from London she found her jewels disturbed, and, ;hat they had not been in;vith by her housekeeper, she urther search, and then mislumber of jewels and some while money was also mism Mrs Lonsdale's and Miss s purses. She had a builr the entrance, and she in-

i Mr West Reeve's residence pother the dog had been bark, us he made _. noise on •oach of strangers, but no had been heard. She theree information to the police.

Benning deposed to arrestez at Bray. The accused, he roduced the jewellery from its, and it was that produs, card-case, pearl necklace re/., who seemed to feel his keenly, was remanded.

'iLE RUSH OF A GLACIER J THE CAUCASUS.

on the morning of July If! tinians inhabiting the gorge which flows ihe Genal Don, aucasus, were aroused hy a c thunder, immediately fol- ' a hurricane, and in its

enormous avalanche. The w With such violence that it c terrified fugitives oil their

c tipper part of the ravine as a small sanatorium com>f twelve buildings grouped the hot chalybeate springs, stant buildings and patients red beneath the ice 42(tft.

I. Tbe sole survivor received njuries, and has not yet re-

consciousness from the The glacier plunged on for irec miles, sweeping everylorc it.

days later a second ice of still greater mass follow--same way. Four Ossetinians in seeking the bodies oi the of the first disaster observlall cloud up the valley, the gn of another ice-slip, and mmediately knocked off their

the squall. Two disappear>w the advancing ice, while * a miracle remained on 'lie

and were carried at lighteed four miles down valley. . party had almost reached ien the block they stood on ed and they were swallowi the glacier.

idea of the speed of.the iccmay be gathered from the t the second glacier covered lcs in two minutes.

iasant was saved by a sheer ; he was thrown down by :e of the wind, and the ice lp on all sides, leaving him bottom of a well with vertivalls, whence he was happily

!iND BEAST MEET FATE OF LOT'S WIFE.

5 If. Tucker, a mining proswho has just, returned to g, U.S., from a trip through avc and Colorado Deserts, a remarkable story of the dis )f a petrified man' and buried >f the large saltfields that athere.

ol the most desolate places

Colorado Deserts," says Mr "is 32 miles south-east of Here is a large deposit of It fifteen miles in length and c and a-half miles to three in There is not a spear of grass kind of vegetation. In many he rock salt crops out of the md anywhere in this section t can be obtained by digging ;welve inches. No one knows sp'th'e salt goes. A number icct holes have been sunk, but iter amount of water encoun,t a depth of twenty-five or eet makes further mining imwithout pumping apparatus ten years ago an effort was d bring this immense deposit, ; into commercial use. Two . were built to connect the arries with the Santa Fc. It nd necessary to build a house middle of tbe deposit, and for irpose enough blocks of rockre cut to build a shanty four- • thirty feet in dimensions. A ; and roof composed of the r kind ot earth that exists in ,'clnity completed the building, s salt house, or, as the Mexiilled it La Casa del Sal, was r the purpose for which it was . But in short time the salt

operations were discontinued 3 salt house was abandoned to yote and desert owl.

it least seven years before we this building, about a month

had not been inhabited, nnd ly very seJdpm seen by anymring the suirim. r "months in ;ality fine saline dust is blown t clouds thrpugli the desert, eat in almost unbearable, water is found is almost undo, and woe to the prospector nds hlmselt in this section m empty canteen. A peculiar of the climate is that, no how hot the day, the night is bly cool, and cold enough for ? iceig the summer of 1900 a Swede Johnston; who had been prog in the vicinity, started to this dry lake of salt to Old 's Springs. When nearly half toss a terrific sandstorm blew

; trudged on until he came to t house, where he and his huight shelter. r the eaves of the house he a number of galvanised tanks filled with rain water. He ired'this a lucky find, for his i was almost empty. He his fill of the water and perhis burro to do ilia same. night was cold and the storm ied. He determined to camp hut over night. The dead emf the lire were still to be seen we visited the place, evidence unusual severity of the wea-

ri we opened the door of this te shack we were horrified at what seemed to he a marble lying on the door. The head t alabaster whiteness, the hair whiskers having tallen away. ody was outlined under a thin 't. sight was so uncanny that we ;ed to remove the blanket, but mustered enough-courage to

body had undergone a singu;ansrormkt'ion, ' being nothing ihan'n; complete ' ('petrification, uibstance *a*.is of a nature of ■ 'very friable and pure wmtc )__.'' The outline of Iho feqd? 'illrlness ol the interior, at ras intenso and prevented : (is 'seeing iho I'drro, ivhjcji way ig in one corner. One of our advanced' apd' laid his hand on imalwh.n it f. 11 over "■gain**, rjie burro had undergone the, .reatment as Its masters. The f tho man was given a decent near the house, and the.hurro i sent, to'the Smithsonian Jn^

explanation of fhjs strange tenon is' 'to he iou»d in the ! water th*. ttas drunk by the

man and the burro, ftud in tha kind of earth that composed the roof and floor of the »alt habitation. Tho water is heavily charged with chloride of sodium. The earth that had been used for roofing contained chemicals which were takefi in solution by the rain v/ater as it dropped through into the galvanised tanks. After drinking freely of this water the man and the beast. had_ evidently 1 frozen io death, nnd were gradually petrified."