LATEST MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4740, 23 August 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)

LATEST MAIL NEWS.

from tin; latest, English files to ha ml an . I,ikon Iho following interesting

Hems: — Queen Alexandra.’:. Coronation dress was executed in Paris, although the costly ninl ial.-i were of Indian origin. The dress is pure cloth of Kohl, the daz. zling effect, of which is Mihdned by a covering of nebulous while silk tulle, dotted ove r With "old flowerets. 'I he train is f> f cold brocade, with varying fines upon ita sin lace.

The Queen of the Belgians is now in Mich feeble health I hat she ha.s to bo carried up and down stairs.

The King received Prince Komatsu, tho Japanese representative at. tho Coronation, who presented the King with t’ne Chain of the Order of tho Chrysanthemum from the Kmperor of Japan, and also delivered to Ins Majesty for the Queen the Jewelled Order of tho Crown from the [‘impress of Japan. Mr Barton, tho Uommcn wealth Premier, has brought, for presentation to the King a walking-stick made, from the timbers of Captain’s Cook fa mo its exploring ship. Admiral Keppel was received by the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace cm tho occasion of his ninety-third birthday.

Mr Samuel Hadfieid, ■of Sheffield, a well-known musician and one of (ho pioneers of tho tonic sol-fa .system, died suddenly while taking a Vapour bath. Lord James, who acted as arbitrator on the wages quest ion in the coni trade, has decided in favour of (he. coalowncrs, and has declared a reduction of ft) per cent.

At, a sitting of the Royal Commission on Arsenical Poisoning, -Mr Hobncr, of the Society of Chemical industries, said that if tho law wore to insist upon beer being absolutely free from arsenic, they would have to close up afl tho breweries in England. Mr Delephino, professor of chemistry, said that tho outbreak of arsenical poisoning was duo to tho use of arsenical glucose, or invert sugar, as malt substitutes in browing. A Gorman inventor claims to have perfected an apparatus which enables a written mossago to bo sent by wire. It is transmitted photographically. A largo British shipping combino out. Bide the Morgan Trust is in course of formation. There is a proposed amalgamation of twenty-three Lanarkshire collicrics. A portrait by Romney realised 10,500 guineas—a record price—in a London saleroom. A valuable horse was suffocated in its (stable at Maidenhead by tho animal accidentally turning on tho gas tap during the night. . . A young man experimented in i arts with a flying machine resembling a huge pair of wings. Happily ho attempted to fly across tho Seine. Ho jumped from a parapet 60ft high, but his wings refused to work, and ho foil into tho river. Ho sank to the bottom, but extricated himself from the machine, and, rising to tho surface, swam ashore. A mushroom measuring 37 inches m circumferonco has been found near 33arJiet.

The sum of £54,600 was award ft d for Simpson’s famous dining establishment, tho premises being required in connection with tho Strand improvement.

A gentleman left tho Isle of Man half a oontury ago for Now Zealand. As nothing has been heard from him in tto interval, legal stops were being token to wind up the estate, his death being presumed from long silence. To the surprise of all concerned; a letter waa received' from the gentleman at the Antipodes stopping further proceedings. He had been reading in the newspapers of his supposed death.

A doctor in Paris has inoculated himself with consumption matter from a diseased cow, to ascertain the possibility of human contamination from bovino tuberculosis.

A caso of lupus of thirty years’ standing was cured at Nowcast-le-in-Tyno by means of the X-rays. A vast area of bog in Ireland, comprising several hundred acres, split in two and moved a considerable distance, occasioning much destruction of property. A house was swallowed up, but no lives were lost.

“Prince Lobengula, whoso marriage with an English lady caused a sensation some time ago, and subsequently led to divorce proceedings, was fined for being drunk at Salford.

A bookmaker was fined £IOO in Liverpool for using a place for betting, and the magistrate intimated that if exemplary fines did not stop the nuisances, bo would impose imprisonment and hard labour. Throo schoolboys wore ordered to be birched for breaknig into an iron church at Enfield and robbing coutrib uion boxes.

A tragic affair occurred ab Dn.istan, near Newcastle-on-Ty no, recently. A farmer and his wife went to church, leaving in tho house three servants, a youth and two girls. Tho youth was then reading the Bible, After their dcaprturo, ho is said to have made a mnr. devoirs attack upon ono of the girls with a hammer, and then hanged himself. When his dead body was cut down ho was wearing his C.E. badge. It is thought tiro girl may recover. A doctor was killed by a carriers' cart in Limerick. Tho widow and children sued tho, carriers for the negligence of their servant, and were awarded £3OOO damages. At Market Deeping a farmer was firmt! for placing poisoned grain to kill rooks, as it resulted in tho death of 'hir ! >’ four pigeons belonging to a neighbour. A lady passenger placed a dressing case containing £2OO worth of jewellery iu a corner of the waiting-room atWaterloo station. Sho strolled a few yards from thp door, and on her return tho case had disappeared. An echo of Mrs Dyer, the executed baby-farmer, comes from Bristol. In Iho garden of a ' house there in which she resided six years ago tho bodies of four children have been accidentally unearthed.

A lady’s maid, having saved C 126, no. cidod to open a. boarding establishment, and advertised for a husband who could join her in the venture. A German hairdresser answered tho advertisement, and, having obtained the loan of (ho money from her, married another lady. The victim sued him for the return of her money, and judgment was given in her favour for tho full amount claimed.

Two negro boys, who were said to have confessed to stoning a white girl to death, wero taken from prison in North Carolina by an infuriated mob and hanged on a tree. The younger boy was made to climb tho free with tho rope encircling his neck, and by threats from tho frenzied crowd was forced to jump from the tree, thus compassing his own death.

A banker’s servant in Russia, while conveying a large snnm of money to the Imperial Bank, was accosted by a re-spectable-looking man, who, in the course of conversation, handed the servant a cigarette. After a few draws from the cigarette the servant collapsed from the effects of a powerful poison and the stranger made off with the money.