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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8538, 9 June 1899, Page 4

James Russell, a machinist in humble circumstances, at Vancouver, has fallen heir to five million dollars, left him by a bachelor cousin in London.

Melbourne is still raving over Mias Amy Castles. On Tuesday week n benefit was given to her in the Town Hall. The building (says the Ace) " was packed from cud to end, Mid every single sov\l in it had paid 5s for a seat. ' Money talks,' they say ; but did any single soul in that great assemblage regret their extravagant outlay, or imagine that they were not getting back to the full all they had paid for ? On the contrary, the whole house rose at Amy Castles, cheered her, encored her, lavished flowers on her, as if she were already a diva of established standiug and repute." It is added that her voice is one " the like of which is uot to be met with more than once or twice in a lifetime, and one which is uot likely to be heard again for a many a long year.'"

Electric motor fire engines,_ travelling 15 miles an hour, are now being used in Paris.

The editor of the Bloemfontien Express has beon found dead at the bottom of a Kimberley mine.

Twenty-two million bottles of champagne are drunk annually in tho world. A Rheims dealer keeps 9,000,000 in reserve.

A movement is stated to be on foot for organising a great African or "Cupe to Cairo" exhibition, to bo hold in London in 1002.

Tho bloomer costume is as popular as ever in Paris, English women are adopting a compromise between bloomers and tho ordinary skirt this year. There is a great run on the divided skirt.

A terrible burning fatality occurred at Cue, West Australia, the other night, Mr C. A. Litchfield, assistant Government Surveyor, aged 2(J, being burned to death in his camp. He perished in attempting to save the household belongings.

The first-class cruiser Drake, now being built at Pembroke for the British Government, will have a displacement of 14,100 tons, and engines of 30,000 horse power. She is expected to attain a maximum speed of twenty-three knots and to steam continuously at sea in smooth water twentyone knots per hour. According to experts she will be heavier and more powerful than any foreign cruisers afloat.

A strange funeral was witnessed at Casino, New South Wales, lust week. The body of a jockey named Ferine, who had been killed at the Tweed River races, was carried in its coffin on the shoulders of tho bookmakers, and was followed by the racehorse Clipstone, which Fernie was riding at the time of the accident. Then came ten jockeys, wearing their colors, followed by about 150 residents, including most of the members of the Jockey Club. The band played the Dead March.