WORLD WIDE ECHOES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1425, 22 June 1899, Page 48

WORLD WIDE ECHOES.

It will bo remembered that the clay 10Ilowing the terrible boating accident at East Island, those on shore signalled to the Te Anau that two more bodies ban "been recovered. The Marine Department received a telegraph message yesterday from Captain Boltons, of the Hmemoa, stating that the bodies have been recognised as those of the seamen Neil Buchanan and Sjoblom. This information gives absolute denial to the statement that Buchanan, when clinging to a submerged rock, had been seized by eithei a shark or am octopus. . , Mr T. R. Taylor, of Kiwitea, intends,, it is reported, to stand for the Bangiukei electorate at the general election neA November as a Government supporteiIn the event of his doing so, Mr 1' • AHomer has decided to withdraw Ins candidature for the same seat m his tavoui. The Government has issued instructions that in every case cf an old age pensioner being convicted of arumenivo, no further instalments of his pension shall be paid to him personally, but to .. R. formerly located at Foxton, but now at Carterton, will be appointed to Auck-

13 Mr <1 B Chamberlain, one of the oldest residents of Wanganui, having resided there for nearly ferty years, died on Io- - last. Mr Chamberlain was an old pensioner of the Imperial army He through the Crimea and Maori W ais. The death is announced of a well-known resident of Dunedin, Mrs A. D. Snk, p.oprietress of the Leviathan Private Ho, . The deceased lady, who arrived m Otago in the early sixties, was of a verj enteiprising disposition, and was largely interested in Otago mining ventures. A very large purple-top Aberdeen tmnip was exhibited at Sandon on Thursday evening last. It weighed 1/lb, and wa» forty inches in diameter. Frequent complaints are being made by farmers in the vicinity of Feildmg o. urn depredations of dogs amongst their ° ? bullock destroyed a few days ago at the Longbum works found, to be in a shocking state. It> lunp weiehod G4!b. In another condemned am.mafthe liver weighed 1251 b, being a mam of tumours. , The “Star ” has been reques.au to state that the provisional-directors FeLlding Co-operative Bacon 1 Company have not yet pur mas id » si y for the factory, neither have they mtoution of doing so until the company ,* re in the Dunedin PresbytArv the Rev A. Cameron said : " have’ always been accustomed to consmei Dunedin a Presbyterian town, but the feet is we are losing ground all round and the Anglicans are nearly upon us. Mr Henry Brown, M.H.R., has written to the Government complaining that m is not intended to station any o : Lie newly-arrived veterinary surgeons in the provincial district of Taranaki. He points out that the number of cattle m Taranaki, is 211,158 head, being rather more than one-sixth of the total number m New Zealand.

A family at Mansfield, near Melbourne, developed symptoms of poisoning after eating mushrooms last week, and ono daughter succumbed. The other members of the family are recovering. The medical attendant says the disease has the appearance of what is known in I'mqland as “rotten throat,” and that it is contagious. * _ . The new Austrian paper. ‘'Brut.-a SLoga,” published at Auckland, denies 'that the Austrians are not intending to ■remain in Auckland and are merely birds of passage. It says some twelve or fourteen have taken up land, and others are waiting a chance to do so. •News comes from Westport that a dredging boom lias taken place on, the Totara river, near Charleston. Two more claims have been pegged off. As the river drains the rich fields of Addison's Fiat, there is every prospect of big returns being secured. The Palmerston*(South) correspondent of the “Otago Daily Times” writes that, in spite of the sharp frosts of the past month, he has seen very fine ripe raspberries grown at Goodwood in tlie open air, equal to any, grown in the proper season.

The “Waipawa Mail” is informed that Mr T. Crosse, of Hastings, has purchaser 1 . Mr Gatsford’s well-known property at 'ft Auto, together with the stock. The area of the estate, which lias upon it 9506 6heep, is 8400 acres. The price paid was £13,500. It is said that the gold dredging mania, has attained such a stage of fervency that about' 180 applications for mining privileges were set down for hearing at the Cromwell Warden’s Court last week. The Cromwell “Times” warns the pubic against being inveigled into embarking into useless ventures of the kind. A local paper staes that the Chinese bodies in the Greymoutli cemetery will be disinterred in July, and the remains sent to China for interment. The cos, will be about £25 for each coffin, or some £2OOO for the whole number. Nearly this amount, it is stated, is already in hand and held in trust. The boat for use on Lake Waikareiti is now finished (says the “Wairoa Guardian”), ancl the first party to explore the lake reports there are seven beautiful islands dotted about the lake, one of them about 200 acres in extent. For S'cturesque scenery thik lake rivals auyung of the kind in Nevt; ; Ze'allna;! '

The “Southland News” reports that during the absence of Mr Simon for a few minutes from his boot shop someone stole a cash-box from behind the counter, containing £3 in silver, a Jubilee sovereign, 10s lOd in stamps, and three promissory notes for £279 15s Bd, the whole being valued at £284 11s 6d. The matter was placed in the hands of the police, and they proceeded to interview Oswald Sewell, a man of about forty years of age, who confessed to the theft, and told, the detectives where the property was hidden. The money, cash-box and promissory notes were recovered, and Sewell stands committed. for trial. Full particulars respecting the will of Baroness d.e Hiraoh have been published in Vienna.'. Her fortune, coupled with that of her late husband, is sworn at. 020,000,090 f. (£24,800,000), and upon this, vast sum the executors have paid duties of 24,000,000 f. (£960,000). The relatives of, the deceased receive amongst them the sum of 100,000,000 f. (£4,000,000). while 80 per cent- of the combined fortunes is bequeathed to works of cliariry y.ud mercy. The baroness lierself bequeaths for charitable purposes 46,700,009?. (£1,868,000), her specific bequests including:—Hirsch Foundation in New York, 6,000,000 f. (£240,000); Jewish Board, of Guardians in London, 3,000,0005. (£120,000); Jewish Colonisation Association, London, 10,000.000 f. (£ *-30.000); Hirsch Institute, Montreal. uOO,000 L (£24,000). The residue of the vast estate is to be divided among numerous benevolent institutions and cliaritaolc organisations in Vienna, Buda Pesth. B rutin, Brussels and other Continental «ltt3av The Labour Department has received a request from the New South Wales Advisory Board for the Unemployed, to furnish a- detailed statement of the system and. methods of the Department. Last week letters of natuvn’-isniion were issued to twelve foreigners.

Mr O. K. Fiir.t. a New York millionaire, has given orders for the construction of the fastest steam yacht in the world. The design guarantees a speed of fortytwo miles an hour and engines of 12.000 horse-power. The fittings will be most luxurious, and yet the yacht will be so constructed, that it can be transformed into a torpedo boat within a week. Miss Bibble, a. popular leader of Philadelphia society, has been nearly poisoned in mysterious circumstances, recalling the recent poisoning cases in New York. She received by mail n volume of Browning’s poems, and between the leaves was a bookmark, indicating the poem. “May and Death.” Miss Bibble began to read the poem, meanwhile holding the bookmark to- her nose because of its delicious odour. The scent quickly overpowered her, and she became comatose. Physicians were sent for, but in spite of their efforts an hour elapsed before consciousness wars restored. The physicians secured the bookmark, and a short examination showed it to be saturated with poison. A telegram received from Paris states that the incendiary fires which have occurred. at Guadeloupe, West Indies, arcserious. Tim country from end to end is in the most disturbed condition. Tin blacks make no .secret of their intention to throw off French rude, and to organise Pj free and. independent republic. The moveitient has been in progress for n considerable time past; but since the election to the Chamber of M. Legitim us.a negro, it has advanced rapidly and assumed really alarming proportions. Incendiary fires are of almost daily occurrence in every part of the- territory, the plantations a,re systematically pillaged, and the European colonists are leaving the country, jusither their lives not their projxjHvJbeing safe. . A mirror helps health if you use it rightly. Practice smiling at it, not frowning. Don’t worry. Make a practice of not worrying-. ,

A conflict between man and wife of unparalleled horror and ferocity i.- reported from Chicago. It appears that Joseph Brown i-'-'rreafed his wife for years. Her patience and forbearance being exhausted, she turned and proposed that they should fight, a duel till one or the other was dead. The duel was accordingly fought- in the sitting-room of their home, carving-knives being the weapons chosen for the encounter. It ended in the death of the husband. His body had five stabs. The tragedy was- witnessed by the two children of the couple. _ In the Sydney Criminal Court on June 2nd the Chief Justice imposed an exemplary sentence on Richard Allen. who had pleaded guilty to having stolen a bicycle. He said Allen had in seventeen years been sentenced to nineteen years’; imprisonment. Men like accused were a- nsSenace to society, and ought to be locked up for the preservation of human life in the same way as they locked up wild animals. He sentenced him to five years’ penal servitude. The Ritualist clergy in England are said to Eve exhibiting perfect loyalty to the Bishops in such instances of episcopal direction as to special usages and services as have been made public. Many cases appear in the newspapers of Anglican clergy announcing, to their congregations the caanges necessary to meet the ruling of the Bishops. A shocking accident took place on May 23th in the Great Northern Mine at Eaglehawk, Victoria. Two miners, Robert Degreaves and James McCurdy, were at work in' r winze below the 1590 ft crosscut. A full bucket had been sent up. and Degrcaves was placing an empty one in the bottom of the winze, preparatory to filling it, when the winch rope broke, and the bucket came down with a crash. Degreaves was stooping at the time, and the bucket, striking him on the head, completely decapitated him.

a gentleman in the I3v‘h ms*net • *.*- ccntly sent 24 pigs to the IV oodvilla bacon curing establishment, and received in return a cheque for £57. In consequence of this a number cf Makotuku farmers have indicated their intention of “going in stiff’’ for nig rearing this year. The receipts oi the Wellington Corporation for the m nit’: t • May totalled £4564 Cs lid, including £2350 16s lid for rates. The expenditure amounted to £'5651 17s 1.1, the largest items hc-i’ig £IBB-5 for repairs to streets and £1378 13s Id for charitable aid account. A proposal is cm hint to |>ny up the house on Hudson river in which the words of the immortal song. “Yankee Doodle" were written. The house ami grounds would then become a national memorial. An atrocious outrage by masked burglars i~ reported from St. Pierre les Aubagne. a lonely country district of France. One of the celebrities or the place, an old soldier named Lessen, who lives by himself some distance from the village-, was aroused about midnight by. .someone' knocking at the door ot his cottage. He went downstairs, and finding three masked men trying to force the door with a hop pole, went to get a couple of blunderbusses ho had. Before lie could load them the itnor vas burst open, and the men entered and bound him, and proceeded to ransac.v the place. Ke refused to tell them where lie kept his money. so the> scorched the soies cf his feet by holding a, lighted candle under them. He fainted from the pain, but recovered consciousness after several pails of water had been thrown upon him, and upon the candle flame being again applied, revealed where he kept Ins treasure, amounting to several thousand francs, the whole of which the thieves took. Their victim was discovered next morning in such a terrible plight that his life was despaired, of.

President Loubef’s salary is £25.000, but the expenses of the .Presidential establishment are double that sum, and oven 'this docs not include the pay of army officers attached to the Presidential household, or the cost- o? keeping the Ely see and other palaces used by tjia President in a state of repair. * The. El ysee is President Loubet-’s town residence, but he has also at his disposal the former royal palaces of Fontainebleau and Itainbouillet, which are furnished and maintained at the expense of the State. It- will be easily understood that the Presidential salary is inadequate to tlio demands made upon the Presidential purse, and the only President who made both ends meet was M. Grevy. President Faure is known to have spent about £50,000 over and above ins official income in doing honour to the Emperor and Empress of Russia, and Marshal MacMalion found that more than half his large private fortune had been spent at the Elysee. There is a numerous assemblage of Maoris at Havelock (Marlborough) at the present time-, in connection with a kind of native Parliament. They come from the Wairarapa. Waikawa. (Pic-ton) and other places, and, altogether, there must he over 200 Maoris m the township. ] .A resident of Sandon has working on. ! 1!s property a new straw press, which is one of half a dozen in the North Isjund. Inis machine is expected to. prove a boon to farmers, as it will enable them to press their straw into neat bundles ready for market, instead of burning it, as is at- present practised. Ii justification were needed of Signor Marconi's claim to be an inventor, it may be round in the following recentdeclaration of Professor J. A. Flem-ing:—-“I cannot help thinking that the rime has arrived for a little more generous appreciation by his scientific contemporaries of the fact that Signor Marconi has bv minute attention” to detail, and by the important addition of tlio long vertical air wire, translated one method of space telegraphy out of tlio region of uncertain, delicate laboratory experiments, and placed it on the same footing as regards certainty of action and ease of manipulation, so far as present results show, as any of tiny other methods of electric communication employing a, continuous wire between the two places. The torpedo-boat destroyer Fame, with 100 men of the Hongkong Regiment, proceeded to Kowloon to suppress the recent, disturbances there. There were over lOOi) uniformed Chinese soldiers posted, ou the hills. The Chinese, says a “'Times’’ telegram. opened fire w...» guns and rifles, but did no damage. After the Fame had shelled the assailants the troops fired a. volley and charged, whereupon the Chinese bolted. The British Government has acceded to the Chinese request for six months’ deday to make the necessary ar raugements for the removal of the Maritime Customs stations beyond the Kowloon territory. The “Berlin Post." in an article headed “The Question of the i nane of England." discusses the capacity of Great- Britain to defend her colonies and possessions in all parts cf the world- and comes to the conclusion that there is a time- of danger ahead for the British Empire. "Owing to her Parliamentary system, no European Power will bo inclined to effect alliance with Great Britain. The talk of an Anglo-American alliance is nonsense. America will use England us long ns she has need for her, and no longer. In her need England may nor, find her fleet of much use. The fleetcan afford no succour in Afghanistan or the heart of tiiina.” The “Post." conics to the conclusion that the only salvation will be in resorting to universal compulsory military service. It. states emphatically that this cannot be longer delayed. No people can maintain 1 i heir position in the world unless the entire effective manhood serves with the colours. The members of the Federated Seamen’s Union of New Zealand in Dunedin have decided by a good majority in favour of referring their dispute with the shipowners to "the Conciliation Board there. A copy of the demands was sent to each member, accompanied by n ballot paper. At a special meeting of the union this week the executive was empowered to take the necessary stops io have tim dispute referred to tlie* Board. The Dunedin Union's demands are confined principally to a claim for an increase of wages._ Among the appointments mentioned in this week's "Gazette are too t-q <>w;ny: Mr YT. Y. Dennett, of Has rings to~'be registrar of electors for Hawke s ibiv : Mr J. O. Batchelor to be a trustee of 'tile Palmerston North Cemetery, vice Mr A. Stewart, resigned ; Messrs 'J. Mason. E. Tregear and J. N. Joyed., to be members of the Beard of Governors oi the New Zealand Institute. The means of escape from fire at- tne Occidental Hotel have been improved in a marked degree, and in this respect- the hotel may lie regarded as one of the best appointed in the city. Fire alarms have been placed in each of the corridois upstairs. so that the inmates can he immediately acquainted of the fact that the building is on fire. A substantial looking landing stage has been erected on a level with the windows on each -story, an iron ladder forming the connection between the two stories. On the Lambton quay side of the building means are provided to enable the inmates to reach the large verandah, and of course it would then be easy to reach the ground from the verandah. The improvements have been favourably commented' upon. The work was carried out under the .supervision of Mr W. O. Chat field. Mr Meyers being .the builder.