OUR MAIL BUDGET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

OUR MAIL BUDGET.

SUMMARY OF WORLD'S

HAPPENINGS. LONDON, March 22. The Atlantic rates war is likely to be renewed this year. Four men working m a diving bell were drowned at Wilhelmshaven. A four-page letter by Robert Burns was sold at Sotheby's for the record price of i 3141. •"■..' A hundred miners lost tlieir lives and twenty others were terribly injuied m two pit disasters winch .occurred m Germany on Saturday. Hundreds of Viennese ltousewiyes are for the first time m their lives attempting to bake bread, on ing to tlie bakers' strike. The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P. f is shortly to publish a volume on extinct birds. „The book lias cost £20,00 to produce. Ten thousand pounds for research work has been given by the Goldsmiths' Company to the Lawes Agricultural Trust (Rothamsted Experimental Station). Mrs Hannah Williamson, of Mi'llviHe, New York, who was 100 years old, and had. never suffered a. serious illness m her life, has been burned to death. : One hundred and eighty-seven of the English strike breakers employed on the docks at Hamburg liave struck, work for more pay. T . „; General Botha, Premier ofj.the Transvaal) will receive a salary of £4000, and the other members of tiie Ministry £3000 each. ". ■ ' .--,- Picture post-cardst bearing photographs of Ma. and Mrs Thaw are, said to have a larger sale m England just now: than any other photographs. ... , Tlie postal authorities of. Hobqken, New .York, .despairing bf the dilatory telegraph boy,; have employed girls, to tlie great iuu provement;:Of the service. . ■" .Tliere is not at present a single English peer among the Law Lords. The final Court of Appeal is composed entirely of Irishmen and Scotsmen. .'; ;'• " '■'•• The inhabitants of -Melmoth, Nata}, appealed to the Government to build a laager into whicli 'they might retreat m ili^ event of ariotlier native rising, which they fear. ..The Countess Vilma Festetips,' who belongs to one of the' first Hungarian noble families, settled a; house. wOrth £12,000 on Rudi Nyary, a gipsy violinist, 'arid married him m a registry office. Lord - Loreburn, the! Lord .Chancellor,, vfleclared emphatically in^ihe House of Lords for Home Rule, Which he Said .is Ss sure to come as that to-morrow's suri ; will rise. T. !-,'' -' '%£'-'" ''-. ■-' ' ''! ■ '":!'"" -; Five' bonded warthpuses and four light-' ers, with fifteen thousand bales of /cottori,; were, destroyed. by fire, at the' Genoa docks yesterday. The damage is estimat. Ed at, £240,000. '/'.Tt'T'T T- . - . Nearly 300 motor cars ! are now ; registered jn Cairo, Egypt, arid it is evident they are conquering the desert. T : „ Reports from Jamaica show that Gover.rior "Swetteriham's resignation has been received with general satisfaction. The Goyerrior'.impOpularity is of long standing,- and has been brought Co & climax by recent events;." / T T T ' ! The popularity of Victoria Falls," Rhodesia, as a winter resort for English riieri nnd women is increasing, to such an extent that it has beeii found necessary to augment/ the railway service i /and: -to iricrecise/the hotel accorinnodatioii./; ! The : cultivation of rubber is no w being ' taught m the schools of West Africa. Every village is obliged to plant a certain number of acres -in .übber trees.^-In the Comro State 12,500,000. rubber trees have beeii planted. ._ ;,T T?-!- . T ,. f '';•''•■■ ; The Quebec Legislature has unanimously passed a Bill granting tr pension to Mrs; Maxwell , the mother of . the teacher at the ; Montreal Protestarit School who lost her life m the recent fire at the school m an endeavor to save the children. Tlie Premier, Mr Gouin, and otlier members spoke m feeling terms -of the heroism of Miss Maxwell.;'. :'..!. Dressed m the latest modes, r and including some of the; belles ,' of Vienna, 5000 of the dressmakers on strike marched, ori March 18th, m rows of fours along the Ringstrasse after a demonstration on the Corso. They were led by smiling polioe, and crowds on the streets showed their I delight at the march of beauty.- T The port auUiorities at Dover believe that when .tlie nexv; western arm lia. been constructed the entrance to the harboi* will; be safe, and :Dover will become one of the finest naval harbors, m the kingdom. . //..'• ■ .•'■.-■'.;;- ■A new type of warship has been irivented -for Messrs Vickers, Sons, : and Maxim. ,lt will be propelled by gas en; gines, will have no funnels, and its' guns will be; placed so that they will fire m all directions. The Canadian Immigration' Department expects 300,000 immigrants this year. Over 200,000 arrived last year. . Every berth ori steamers sclieduled to leave England up tio July Ist has been taken. £70,000 LIBEL AOTIONST T Writs have been, i&sued (sayis a Johan--nesburg despatch) against Mr J; B. Robinson, claiming £70,000 damages for defamation. Mr -tpbirison* has charged the Rarid Native Labor Association with deliberately Curtailing the supply of native labor for the" mines/ and the writs have; been issued agaiist hjm at the instance of the Association and of six of its niem- ' bers. '-' - ■ "■ ■'■■':■ £10,000 FOR THE RED CROSS. y . The Dowager Empress Of Russia lias given a donation of/_IO,OOO tb the Red Cross Society, tlie interest , on which is : to be allocated to three prizes for tlie best means of 'relieving the wourided on the battlefield or at seaT TThe. international meeting/of the Red Cross Society Will be held m London from June "10th to 14.h next: .--.-'W-" ' THE RUSH TO CANADA. ; . Emigration^, the Canadian North-West is now m fuU spate.! A system of special trains lias beeri organised on the "Caria-" diari Pacific Railway to cope ivith the enormous traffic across Canada. But there are not engines or carriages enough, and rolling stock makers dre hard at work m an endeavor to make good the deficiency. Everything points to this season being without precedent m. the annals of the development .'. of DE WET FEARS DINNERS. General Cliristian De Wet has stated that lie- strongly objects to General Botha's visit to London, on the ground, firstj that the Premier should have gone through a full session of Parliament vto learn public opinion, and, second, that Orangia should' have been considered. "Dinners, and again dinners, and nothing but dinners," said General De Wet, "may div _t General Botha's human mind from the business of his country."—-Johannes-burp correspondent. • 80,000 BODIES DISINTERRED. Tlie city authorities of Milan, Italy, are engaged m disinterring and removing 80,000 bodies of patients wlloTdied- at the municipal liospital at the end of the seventeenth century. These bodies, which were buried m seventy-eight crypts under the "Rotunda." are practicably intact, .in consequence of their being almost, hermetically walled m. Hot aid is now r being iritroduced into one crypt after the. other for the purpose of shrivelling . the bodies, which; are then taken m carefully closed railway carriages to the Musocco Cemetery outside the city. ■-;•;. - GENERAL BOOTH'S EMIGRANTS. General Booth received, an ovation on March 15th iri the Ontario Legislative Chamber. Business was suspended while a reception was held on the floor of the House. General Booth then, addressed the House on the subject of his emigration schemes, "and tlie Premier, on behalf of tlie Government/expressed hearty approval of those . schemes. Mr Graliam, leader of the Opposition, said he hoped that larger consignments of tlie class of emigrant the Salvation Army was sending were coming; to, Ontario, where they would be welcomed and cared for. Tlie public galleries were filled <by a great crowd during the speec___f of General Booth, Mr Graham, and the Premier. DODGING THE TARIFF. Mr Armstrong, Conservative member for Lambton, Ontario', called attention m the Dominion House of Commons to frauds which were being committed by certain German manufacturers. He said that accordmc to 'the report of the Department of Trade and Commerce- Canada's* agent at Leeds had stated that large quantities of German goods were shipped to England, where they were re-packed and re-labelled, and then consigned to Canada, where" they were admitted ns British goods under the preferential tariff. Cutlery stamped "Sheffield had never seen Sheffield, and German felts were sent m the same way and sold cheaper m Canada than m Germany.