GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 5 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

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News has hen received from' .Oujda'; that the Sultan's troops have defeated the Pretender's forces, after a fierce battle, in Vhich ISO of the enmey were slain. Many prisoners were taken. The Pretender and the famous Marabout Bu Aniama narrowly escaped capture. FOUND AFTER FORTY. BAYS. Hermann Gustke, a stoker oil the North j German Lloyd steamer Wurzburg, swallow--1 ed white load and lay down under a boiler j " to die comfortably," while the vessel was leaving Brazil. When the steamer reached Bremen 45 days after he was found unconscious, but was resuscitated. He had not tasted food or drink all the time. '11!K SCHOOLBOY UP TO MATH. A Manx boy who attends the Maughold Board School shouted nicknames after a, schoolmate, and then threatened to _ throwhim into a river. The insulted boy, instead' of attempting to black the other's eyes, ; summoned him for "assault" at the Ramsey,. i Police Court. The magistrates, however,; who had all been boys themselves, dismiss* ' ed the case. AMEJiIX'AX MOTORISTS INJURED. Mr. Lisas, a wealthy American, and his wife, who were staying at theElysee Palacei ! Hotel, Paris, were' seriously injured motor-:i ! ing in the department of Seine and Mame., > { Their car came into collision with a pair** horse carriage', and was overturned. Mr..< and Mrs. Lisas were taken to the hospital I at Melim, and were reported -to bo in a critical condition. One of the carriage horses was killed by. uie motor-car. GEBMAXY GETS' £1,000,000 OEDEKS. German locomotive works have re-* ceived ; orders from South America and Asia amounting to £1.000.000. The' locomotives must -be delivered be-.' fore the end of .the year. The trade jour-i nals exult at the success of the German ten-: tiers, which in cadi ease. were in coinpeti-j lion with -tendons from British linns. The', Prussian State railways arc experimenting: with German-built locomotives designed to! maintain a speed of. 75 miles an hour for long distances. CADET HADE 'TALLER. •Mr. Luther Welsh; of Kansas City,, has •: had himself stretched two inches in ■ order 'to pass an examination.: While preparing" for admission- to the Naval Academy he found die was only five, feet in height instead of five feet two inches, which is the minimum laid; down- by the regulations. He thereupon had himself regularly stretched on a specially-devised rack', and added the necessary two inches to his stature before the date of the examination. He passed. •'•. MOTOR-CAR STRUCK BY LIGHTXIXG. ,'■ During a heavy thunderstorm at Retford a motor-ear belonging to Mr. Arthur Mud- #- ford, of Markham Moor Hall, was-struck ; • : by lightning. The driver had been to 'Retford Station to convey a lady to the hall who was arriving by train. When just.' outside the town a flash of lightning struck the car, rendering the lady passenger un- ■ conscious. She was taken up, arid .conveyed to an inn,- and- medical assistance was im-' mediately summoned from Retford. The driver was able to return home, but the lady was too seriously injured to continue her journey. ..;■■'■'/. imjRCY FOE GIRL BURGLAR. Florence-Rebecca Boorman, the Roches-: ter girl burglar, was bound over and dis-i charged at the Rochester Quarter Sessions. This leniency .was due to the intercession of a lady who had become interested in her, and who premised to-secure her admission to a, home. The girl, who is only 15 years old, was first before the Court for . burglary in' March. In>May she was also charged with burglary, and the offence for.; i which she was arrested last was committed: - . in June, when she broke into a house while i the occupants were asleep and stole money i and clothing. : ; •-

120 MILKS AN HOUR, _ In connection with an account of the piMHPi posed electric railways in Germany, published recently, the following further projects should- prove of interest. The most important of the new electric lines will be - that between Brussels, Cologne, and Berlin, : on which a,speed of at least 120 miles an . hour will be attained. The line will be ; almost exactly straight. Travellers from ; Brussels to Cologne will save an hour and' -■ '■', a-half. The traffic returns of the railways : '■'■. connecting Belgium and Germany have in- J creased from £19,690,000 . in 1860 to £71,520,000 in 1903, so that there is every. 1 prospect of the new line being extensively J patronised. ', The Belgian Government has ; voted a sum of £2,250,000 to cover the i costs, while the Prussian Government has": J granted £250,000 towards the construction i of the line between the frontier and Cologne. ; ONE SECRET OF SUCCESS.- -. Estates to the value of over £264,000,005. were left by about sixty-two thousand peo-|| pie in the United Kingdom last year. That | fact proves that we live hi an age of thrift. if Self-denial is as important to financial suc-j.': cess as it is to health. The man who has a' sound body and a sound fortune at fifty] can trace both cp;ioV;-, w this same under-* lying and ever-o.' ~..,- .- use. : Later success* . comes from early . "n«,-. aid the man whot - ; is going to win a large' .orLune, and, what! ' is equally important, be able to keep!it* must learn early what it. is to have a banl3 account and what careful investment, means.. The man who can save a. few pounds a year and invest it in the safes* and most remunerative , way : has already -: ' ; masted the essential character of the pro&< blem, and is further along the road toll j wealth than he mav imagine. What voul ' earn, at the start matters" little. The 'im-l ! portent question is, "How much do you 'I save?" Once you have established the sW-j | ing habit.'the rest-:,will be easy and yoac| ! fortune will grow. " .' ■ j DANCE K FASCINATES A LION. ; ] •So great was the impression which a," •", fascinating' Spanish dancer made on a lion ' while she was paying a visit to a music-hall; j where it was performing that the animal, i j after contemplating her for some time, got j j on its legs; moved oft' in her direction, and! 1 putting its paws through the bars of it a) ' cage took hold of her head and patted her * face affectionately. Unfortunately Samson •'• had reckoned > without his claws, which 1 tore the tender skin of the pretty dancer, inflicting scars the traces of which will in all probability never disappear. This result of what would; otherwise have been regarded as a good joke not being likely to enhance the professional, attractiveness of the young Spaniard, she has taken legal action against the proprietor of the place of entertainment,, j j putting in a claim for . damages .to the; j amount of £400. The case has just been- ] brought before one of the 'Paris courts, but > as the defendant is abroad on business the. hearing has been adjourned until Novenv' j ber, when the judges may have a better j opportunity of forming an exact opinion of j the injury which the fair plaintiff has sustained. ■' • j PUBLICAN KILLED ON HIS I'lliST MOTOR EOS. A. fatal motor-car accident occurred on the main London road at Strood, Kent. It appears that Mr. Edward James Friday J Hall, the landlord of the Anchor Hotel, Deal, and two friends, Messrs. Percy John ; Amos and Alfred John Amos, were travel- 1 ling from Dart-ford to Leal in the car, when j the off-hind wheel suddenly cast its tire. This caused the hind part of the carriage to swerve round violently, with the result that the vehicle was overturned. The occupants were thrown into the road with great force. Mr. Hall being unconscious when picked up. A doctor was summoned, and gave' ; the injured man temporary attention, after I which he was placed on an ambulance and. ' removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1 Rochester, but on his arrival there it was. i found that he had expired during the jour-- ! ney. Messrs. Amos aho sustained severe j bruises and abrasions, and were badly ! shaken, but after being attended to they- } were able to return home to Deal by train. ] | The motor-car was completely wrecked. j j The car, a second-hand one, had just been f | purchased by Mr. Hall at Dartford, the j fatal trip being the first journey he had j taken in it since its purchase. At the in- \ quest Major John Kennedy, Royal Engineers, called as an expert, said that tin: car i was old, and not fit to be on the road un- .; less the driver was prepared for accident