THE ENGLISH MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9261, 26 September 1901, Page 4

THE ENGLISH MAIL

♦ SUMMARY OF HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

LONDON, Aug. 16. According to Truth, the Empress Frederick has left a fortune of a million, tiesides the Friedrichshoff estate, which cost £300,000. Russia aspires to develop an extensive English . market for her farm and dairy produce. A special commission, under Imperial auspices, will visit England next month to study local conditions. A thousand shop assistants of both sexes held a demonstration at Nimes in favor of Sunday closing. Complications gather around Mr Rhcdes' alleged gift of £5,000 to the Liberal party. Though denied by Sir H. Ci>mpbeu-Bannerman, the statement is re-affirmed by those who gave it currency, and Lord Rosebery . is challenged to contradict it. Mr Rhodes, we understand, declines to make a statement. Mr Pierpont Morgan is credited with a scheme for combining all coal minds in the United States. Negotiations are already in progress in Illinois. Japan's dispute with Korea is still unsettled. The Mikado's Government demands a "concession" of a million square yards of land at Masanpho, which the Korean Government refuses to grant. Russia already enjoys a "concession" in the region. Two pilots have been drowned in the Bristol Channel. They fought hard for life. Hilda sailor made a gallant effort to rescue them. A third pilot was saved, though injured. Bissert, a Tammany ward detective, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined £200 for levying blackmail. The sentence is a heavy blow to corruption in New York. The Paris police have just unmasked the methods of a gang of bicycle thieves, calling themselves the "Interchangeable Company, Limited." They stole large numbers of bicycles, took them to pieces, mixed up the accessories so as to make the machines unrecognisable by the owners, and then pawned them. John Thomson Hall, a Darlington solicitor, who disappeared in March, leaving a deficit of £100,000, has been brought back from America. Several lads were being dressed to represent animals in Noah's Ark for the purpose of participating in a hospital parade at Wyke, near Weymoutb, -when one who was covered with wadding lighted a cigarette, and in doing so set himself on fire, as well as nine others, who were slightly burned. A trotting match for a purse of £2400 and the championship of the world took place on the Brighton Beach track (America) between Mr G. H. Ketcham's Crescens and Mr J. J. ScannelPs The Abbot. The former won the first two out of three heats in the splendid time of 2min 3 {sec and 2min 6isec. The Paris Presse states that the Republic of Brazil intends to present a premium of £11,000 to M. Santos Dumont in recognition of his services to aerial navigation. The Brazilian Press will at the same time offer the yountj aeronaut a model of his balloon in gold. The De Beers Company presented the Duchess of Cornwnll. as a souvenir of her visit to South Africa, with «• collection of diamonds weitrhinq together 216 carats, an-l valued afc £1400. The stones, which aiv all perfect octahedrons, have, b^n selected from the output of the List six months, and form, it is^Kui, the most unioue collection ever seeiFin Kimberlfiy. Miss Cora Beckwith, a lady professional s\rimmer familiar +o London, will iipxt month attempt at Niagara, the feat tlmt co«t Cnnfain W^Mi his life. She is no-"- p<*rformine at Buffalo Exhibition. M. Dieudonne. an expert in the mat- i

tor, says the cost of an electromobile for a year, running 10,000 miles on 300 days, will be £365. Messrs. Coulthard and Co. estimate the annual expenses of one of their steam omnibuses driven 40 miles on 260 days of the year at £295, or rather less tlutu id per passenger per mile. Hat manufacturers in the United States are combining against British imports. The capital is stated at £5,000,000. A great motor-car long-distance race is being organised for America — from New York to Buffalo. The distance is 430 miles. A member of the Polish aristocracy of Warsaw is reported to have lost. £40,000 in oue night at cards in Paris, and thus to have seriously crippled his fortune. Salaries of all Government officials in Klondike have been considerably raised, and the humblest clerk in the Gold Commissioner's office now receives £600 a year. In his will Signor Crispi stated that his only property is his library, acquired during 65 years of work for his country, and this he leaves to the town of Palermo. It is valued at £40,000, and contains many veiy old Arab manuscripts. The poverty in which the great Italian statesman has died is a splendid and absolute refutation of the accusations made against him when he was a member of the Government. THE FUTURE OF OSBORNE. It is authoritatively stated that the King and the Queen desire that Osborne House shall be the marine residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. , With Portsmouth so near, and Parkhurst Forest for shooting, the Isle of Wight is not without its attractions for the Sailor Prince. A WONDERFUL PLOUGH. Mr Gatling, the manufacturer of the well-known guns, has just completed the construction of a new motor-plough which is expected to revolutionise the methods of laud culture. A company with a'capital of £200,000 is being formed to work the patent. It is asserted that with this machine a single man will be able to cultivate thirty acres daily. — Publisher's Press. CRISPI'S LAST JOURNEY. The carriage of the remains of Signor Crispi on board the warship Varese, which was to convey them to Palermo for burial, was a. most imposing ceremony. More than 200,000 people followed the cortege from the -V-illa Lina to the landing stage, and it is estimated that nearly a million more lined the route. Troops were extensively employed. Four war vessels were to accompany the Varese to Palermo, as well as other ships carrying friends and admirers of the late Signor Crispi. ANARCHISTS IN GERMANY. A Chemnitz paper prints a -furious article against the anarchists, who, itasserts, are the cause of discontent among the German people, and who necessitated the presence of one cavalry and three infantry regiments, in addition to countless police, at the funeral of the late Empress Frederick. Anarchists, it urges, should not be tolerated in the country, even under police supervision. In this connection it may be stated that though it is alleged that the troops were at the funeral for the purpose of protecting King Edward, both he and the Queen drove unaccompanied by police or troops in Potsdam after the funeral was over. A REMARKABLE WILL. Mr Harvey Scott, of Faribault, Minnesota, who publicly burned bank-notes amounting to £400 last winter, has just died, at the age of 82. In order to prevent his three heirs, whom he disliked, from, getting any more of his property than he could help,* his will directs that £5000 in bank-notes shall be burned, and leaves a like sum in stocks to his heirs. The executor thinks if he burns the money he will be guilty of arson, just as if he destroyed a house or other property, and he refuses to take the risk of going to prison. The heirs will contest the will, alleging inßanity. DYNAMITE FIREWORKS. A terrible catastrophe has taken place near Caldas, one of the most fashionable of Portuguese watering places. During the celebration of a local festival, in which a display of fireworks was to be a feature, the pyrotechnist, wishing to make a good show, made Up some of his pieces with dynamite. The result was a terrific explosion, which completely destroyed a tramcar and killed fifteen out of thirty-seven persons that were on it, the others being more or less seriously injured. The head of one victim was blown a hundred\ yards away, where it fell on the shoulder of a woman, who died immediately of terror. EXPLOSION ON A TRANSPORT. An officer of the mule transport Mechanician,; ; on which the explosion occurred at New Orleans, has discovered a piece of wire 125ft long attached to the anchor-chain 1 , to which the bomb or torpedo which is believed to have caused the explosion was probably tied. The officers think that the infernal machine was attached to this wire, and placed some distance ahead of the ship, against which it was carried by the current and exploded by means of a time fuse. But for the fact that the explosion occurred at a part where the plates of the vessel were strengthened by a bulkhead, she would undoubtedly have sunk. By some the explosion is attributed to Boer sympathisers, and by others to persons' who are discontented with their treatment by the British authorities. — Router. '