NEWS FROM MANY LANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12071, 15 September 1902, Page 3

NEWS FROM MANY LANDS.

BEES HIVED BY FIREMEN Berlin, July 17. Yesterday it took the Berlin fire brigade two hours to hive a swarm of bees, which had settled on one of the masts of the electric tramway line.

Armed with their smoke helmets and fiveproof gloves, the men succeeded at last in securing them in a sack. An enormous throng of people witnessed the exciting scene.

MARRIAGE BY PROXY

Nj:w York, July 12.

Marriage by proxy in the Dutch fashion still occurs from time to time. Mrs. O. S. Araojo de Lieder, of Guracoa, was married last month in that island, her husband being at the time in New York. Mr. Luis 0. Negron aated as proxy for the bridegroom, and accompanied the bride here to meet her husband. Mr. Negron is a bachelor, and has acted as proxy bridegroom at five different weddings.

ARMLESS DWARFS TO WED.

Paris, July 18.

At Bordeaux, Little Tama, an armless athlete who stands 2ft bin in his socks, is to be married to Mile. Maria Lacouthure, who is also without arms and only 4in taller than her future husband.

She is, however, prepossessing, enjoys robust health, is said to be an excellent housewife, and can write, sew. and knit with her feet.

HEROIC WIFE'S DEATH.

Paris, July 18. A miner named'M. Noel, employed at Giily, recently host his health, and his wife, in order to procure the necessaries of life for her sick husband and the child, took his place in the pit, but had only been at work a, few day* when she was caught between a waggon and the) side of the shaft and literally crushed to death.

COSTLY CAPE SCHEME

The Joint Engineering Commission appointed by the Cape Government recommends an "extension of the harbour works in Table Bay. at a cost of three and a-half millions sterling.

Capetown, July 18.

THE IRONY OF CHANCE,

New York, July 18.

Mr, Emmet Eno?, the chief of the medical staff of the insane asylum at Kankakee, Illinois, for five rears prior to his resignation ill February, when he felt his mind failing, is dead. He diagnosed his own case, which was due to a physical injury of 35 years' .standing, but he hoped that by leading a quiet rile he would restore his impaired faculties. Instead of this he became violent last May, and was committed to the Elgin Asylum. A HEN IN A THOUSAND. Washington*, July 27. The Geological Survey, a week ago, applied to the Civil Service Commission for a hen guaranteed to lay one egg daily so as to supply their artist with fresh albumen. Many hens were offered, but none were guaranteed till Mrs. Marsh, of Nunda, New York, responded that her hen not only laid an egg daily, but sometimes a double egg. witl/an outside of soft shell enveloping the regular egg. . If the hen lives up to its guarantee it will be purchased. £13.000 FOR PRINCIPLE. New York, July 18. Mr. Henry Walters, ot Baltimore, who bought the famous Massaranti art collection fit Home for £200,000, although entitled to free admission because it was intended for exhibition, and not for sale, has paid £18,000 duty lather than undergo the vexatious formalities of the Customs law. ZANZIBAR'S NEW SULTAN. Zanzibar, July 18. The new Sultan of Zanzibar is Seyid All, a son of the late Sultan, who, like so many native potentates, bad the child who was to succeed him educated in England Sey.d Ali spent two years at Harrow, and only Lett the school a war ago for his native country to get married and learn the duties of the position he has just been called upon to fill. He did not shine a* a scholar, lor he leit the school in the same position at which he entered it which was at the bottom, but perhaps what is a fact of far greater importance, be was universally liked, and is described as being essentially British in every respect. TT l)r Wood, the headmaster of Harrow, spoke of him as a frank, honest boy, who displayed great enthusiasm for the cadet corps At games be was rather active than skilful, his football being of a ferocious character. mMM