THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13214, 27 June 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

WOMAN'S PATHETIC OPTIMISM. Wo max Is always convinced that she has never looked so alluring as in her newest spring hat. There is indeed, with regard to her personal appearance, something pathetic in her optimism.Lady's Pictorial. ATTACKING LORD KITCHENER. A revolt of the native army is a greaterdanger to India than even an invasion; and Lord Kitchener's masterful, unyielding, and (for the Indian) unapproachable character contains all the elements necessary to produce a mutiny.—Zeitung, Hamburg. WHY THE WIRES BROKE. The latest interruption in the telegraph service on the Victoria Falls line has been caused by a herd of giraffes becoming entangled by their necks in the wires at Intundhla, and pulling about a- mile down. In two former cases elephants "were responsible.— Bulawavo Chronicle. THE MAUVE MADNESS. Mauve hats and mauve shoes, mauve gloves with silk clockings. Mauve waiatbelts, mauve motors, mauve fans, and mauve stockings; .So whatever we do it is safe to infer That we're socially in. for a " mauvey" quart d'honro! -Truth. ENGLISH "MONOPOLY" GONE, The establishment of German coaling stations is making great progress. In the Mediterranean the English monopoly has been destroyed by an alliance of the Hamburg and Bremen Companies. In Algeria, Marseilles, Naples, Genoa, and Port Said there are now German stations capable of furnishing the men-of-war with precious coal.—Die Post, Berlin. RUSSIAN ATTITUDE TO ENGLAND. The conquest of India has never formed part of Russia's plans in Asia. A campaign against India, has been only a threat used to cool England if the latter Power opposed Russia., too much in the Near East and Far East. If any step is made by England towards safeguarding Russia's real political interests, then it would be an unpardonable error not to accept such a chance, and to make the most of it.— Yovoe yremva, St. Petersburg.