SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9576, 4 November 1902, Page 4

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

LONDON, September 20. Millions of gallons of oil have been burned in a-great fire which has raged for two days on the Texas oil fields. The Admiralty has ordered nine new' torpedo-boat destroyers. They are to. be heavier, and stronger than heretofore, at a cost of 4£ knots in speed. The great Salt Lake in Utah is slowly drying up. The water-line, has receded nearly a mile in eight years. After a. four months' trial of practical communism, the only point on which the members of an Anarchist colony established in Holland could agree was to dissolve.

Roumanian Jews continue to invade America. The United States has address-ed-a note of protest to the. Powers against Roumania. j The gambling element in New York has spent over £50,000 in campaigning for the old-style Tammanyites. i Prince Victor Dhuleep Singh's unse- : cured debts are £16,000, fully secured £72,500, and partly secured £6560, | against w.hich he claims £600,000 from the British Government, mainly for arrears due under the treaty of Lahore. Marconi's system is used itv 60 British warships, 27 mercantiie steamers, and 41 stations of Lloyd's. The expenses of his three principal stations in Cornwall, Canada, and the States are heavy, but wireless telegraphy is already a "paying concern . ; It is alleged that gambling is conducted as openly now in New York as it was under the Tammany Hall rule, and the police levy blackmail on every gaminghouse.

There is room in South Africa for many types of race aid faith and speech, bui for only one allegiance, to King and Empire.—Cape. Times. It has been decided to exhume and cremate many of the .horses and mules killed in battle in South Africa. They were buried so near the .surface that it is feared the decomposing bodies' might cause an epidemic. Two Russian generals and several staff officers have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in Siberia for stealing £50,000 from the regimental chest of a Oossack regiment. Our National Debt at the end of March stood at £768,443,386. Since 1836 wars have added nearly £200,000,000". The increase from the comparatively low figure of 1899 (£635,040,965) to the present amount is due to the South African war.

The new beef trust is to. be the. richest of all the trusts yet formed in America. A Chicago message says that the capital will be £100,000,000, the annual business £200,000,000, and the annual profits £30,000,000, enabling a 30 per cent dividend to be paid. The Italian Government has had prepared plans for the reconstruction of the Venice Campanile at an estimated cost of £100,000. The new tower will be built on the old site.^and be similar in design to the old Campanile. Chicago is to .have a college of finance and commerce, where young men are to be trained as bankers, brokers, and' traders in farm and cotton produce. The college will be practically a stock exchange, without its financial responsibilities. A bugler reported killed at Graspan has turned up at Peekham almost penniless. Since his official death he has been twice recommended for the V.C. The War Office owes him £155 back pay, and refuses to pay him until he finds 'his parents to identify him. The Cape Times hurts that Sir J. West Ridgeway, Governor of Ceylon, will succeed Lord Milner. It may be premature to discuss Lord Milner's successor, but it is'not at all unlikely that Lord Milner may, now that the broad lines of the South African settlement 'have been defined, consider his part done. After a. coroner's jury at Fulham had found a verdict of "Wilful murder" against the reservist, Henry Green, who is supposed to have killed his little girl to save her from an immoral life, the crowd outside demonstrated in his favor and showed hostility to his wife. Mrs Carrie Nation, the temperance reformer who used a hatchet against the bars of several liquor saloons in Kansas, proposes to visit Great Britain, which, she declares, is a greater slave to drink than America.

Contact with a live electric wire burned in a, terrible manner the body of Robert Parrish, at Wimst-ed, Connecticut. To ■save his life his two brothers had 139 pieces of skin taken from their arms and grafted on to his body. The victim is recovering.

The new Bishop of Melbourne, Australia, is the Rev. He my Lowther Clarke, M.A., vicar of Huddersfield. and Hon. Canon of St. Oswald, in Wakefield Cathedral.

Owing to the American coal famine, the farmers in Kansas are using maize for fuel. ; Owing to the bursting of a dam near Utica, New York, 5,000,000 gallons of water rushed through the suburbs of the town, sweeping away houses, barns, and a large quantity of live stock. The boat thut Sir Thomas Lipton if building for the America Cup contest is to be radically different in .several important respects from Shamrock 11. It will be built of steel, wliich is less costly than the manganese bronze, of its predecessor, and on lines that are the. result of the builder's experiments.

As a thank-offering for his good health, Pope Leo XIII. proposes to erect a home for the aged poor in his native town of Carpineto, Perugia, at a cost of £40,000.

Major WardiTl says that the Australian cricketers are all satisfied with the tour, though the wet season, has lost them over £4000. He thinks that England is strong in batting. From ten to 15 thousand children are engaged in .street "hawking in London. The evil finds general condemnation, and the Mansion House conference, -called by the City Guardians, may help forward the Home Secretary's Child Labor Bill. Damage computed at £100,000 was done by fire at Victoria Docks, in the large wharf occupied by the Acme Woodflooring Company. Thousands of tons of timber were destroyed.

A Russian admiral has invented a submarine destroyer which threatens, to make a squadron invulnerable, and under-water warfare impossible. The "Radioson" detects the approach of a submarine 'by sound, ascertains its direction and speed, and can be made to blow up the approaching enemy at the will of a person miles a*'^RENAMING THE COLONIES.

There seems to be a desire for _ a new name to take the place of "colonies" or "dependencies" or "possessions" of the British Empire. Why not take a. name already in use, and call them "Dominions"* or "Commonwealths" ? We canfes» to a preference for the latter name. — Globe, Toronto. CRONJE ON THE SURRENDER. The Paris newspapers publish a letter written by General Cronjc on August 15 at St. Helena to friends in Europe. In this letter the general says : — ''However painful surrender may be, we must recognise in it the inscrutable wisdom of the Almighty, and resign ourselves to it, though with the bitterness of. death in our souls." —Reuter. KRUGER'S EXILE. In Mr Kruger's intimate circle of friends there is a movement on foot to send him back to South "Africa. This is approved of, and assisted by, the ex-President's family. Mr Kruger has given notice that ha will vacate his present -residence in November, but has not yet made up his mind whether he would accompany the generals home, if allowed to go. It is understood that the generals, on their next visit to England, will sound proper quarters oil this point. GENDARME RUNS AMOK., The theatre at Malaga., Spain, was •thrown into confusion by a, gendarme i drawing his revolver and firing indiscri- | minutely on the audience. Seven people were killed and nine others severely injured. A scene of panic followed, the theatre being turned into a pandemonium, men and women righting like maniacs in their endeavors to escape from the building. The gendarme, who had suddenly gone mad, was shot down by a, posse of police, as he refused to surrender. GREAT BRITAIN'S EPITAPH. This epitaph is suggested in the Times for the British nation: Here lies a people whose rare gifts of energy, good sense and integrity raised them übove all other peoples when those qualities were all iir all, But they lacked intelligence, and despised it; and, lucking intelligence, they fell from their high estate as soon as the world's prizes 'began to be awarded only to those, who brought a trained and disciplined intelligence to the understanding of its laws—moral, economic and physical. A ROYAL BETROTHAL. A personage closely connected with Court circle® a.t Posdam states that at a not very far distant date the betrothal will take place of the German Crown Prince and Princess Alice of Albany. The charming Princess, who was born at Windsor Castle on February 25, 1883, is a great favorite of the Empress, and when staying with her mother at "Villa Ingenheim, at Potedam, she drives almost daily to 'the New Palace. LONDON'S FOREIGN INFLUX. In round numbers, 180,000 foreign immigrants of the poorest class have during the last 12 months o'ome to London, and a good half c-f this number have come to stay. As a. natural result, the alienation of London areas grows apace. In Whitechapel practicably every three persons out of five are foreigners. In one district of St. George's> there, "were in 1891 2000 foreigners1 to 10,000 natives; to-day there are 10,000 foreigners to 2000 natives. In the borough -Of Stepney, while the native population 'has decreased by 9000 in the Ust 10 years, the 'alh-n inhabitants have increased by 22,000. INDIA'S RELIGIONS. India's weal and woe are expressed in some astonishing figures in the Statistical Ab&tracL for 1901. The vast, popula-.

tion of our Empire in the East is almost realisable when we read that it contains 458,868 blind people, 196,861 deaf mutes, 74,279 insane, and 126,244 lepers. That phrase "the sum of human misery" takes on a new meaning after reading this. The religious statistics are, interesting. The Hindus outnumber all others with a total of 207,731,727 ; next come Mohammedans, 57,321,164; aboriginals, 9,280,467; and so on down the list. Of Christians there are 2,664,313 natives, 89,251 Eurasians, and 169,677 Europeans. . INVASION OF CANADA.

The revised immigration figures for the last fiscal yea* show that 70,000 immigrants entered the Dominion of Canada from all parts of the world, 22,000 of whom were Americans. This shows a great increase in the number of immigrants1 from the United States over any previous year. Many of the Americans are well-to-do farmers and rich. Americanised foreigner® who have come into the Dominion, attracted by the rich farming land in the west. In many instances they have made large purchases of property, chiefly of grain-raising character . A colony of German Roman Catholics has recently purchased £30,000 worth of farming land in the province of Saskatchewan.