OUR MAIL BUDGET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11087, 1 October 1907, Page 2

OUR MAIL BUDGET.

SUMMARY OF WORLD'S HAPPENINGS. LONDON, Aug. 17. An Atlantic rate war exceeding in seriousness anything that has;, yet -taiken / place is threatened. It is predicted there will be a drop in the price >of motor cars owing to competition. . .- /. i ■ Lord Londonderry, speaking at the Durham Agricultural Show, said that now more than, ever farmers had to look to their live stock for profits. .:...-■ ■ '•■ Some rich gold and platinum mines in the province of Perm. Russia, have been sold to:an English company for £25,000. With, reference to the -decision, of twenty ' steamship companies to increase . passage ■. rates, inquiries show that the price of their coal has risen 4s per ton ,tbis year. It . is . stated that Argentine and Chili will not renew the armaments treaty between the- two Republic,, because of the activity of Brazil in increasing her navy. An heir to the Krupp millions has: been* born at Essen. According to his grandr father's will ? this' boy!, on attaining his majority, will inherit the great Kriipp works the capital of Swliich now amounts to £8;ooo,ooo. . . ; - . The Novoe, Vremya, of St. Petersburg, comparing the naval strength, of.; Great Britain and Germany, says that peace is best guaranteed if, when one gun is .added to the . : German fleet, two guns are added -to the British, fleet. ' Mr J. B., Milter, of Sault.Ste. Marie, (Ontario), has discovered what is believed to be the richest nickel- deposit in Canada near Worthingtbn> in Northern Ontario. The vein is reported to.be 100ft wide and to contain almost pure nickel.. .The Standard Oil capitalists, who control the nickel' field in Canada, are endeavoring to purchase the neW ground. , ■'■'■• ' SERIOUS EXPLOSION. The thriving little town of Essex, in Western Ontario, was -wrecked on Saturday )>y the explosion of a car of nitroglycerine at the Michigan Central Railway -Station: Two" men;- weTfi "instantly killed, five were yinjured,' probably mortally,and marty others were hurt. Almost, every v building in the town "was shattered!, and within a .radius of 300 yards from the station every thing . was levelled to the groauki, 'including two large mills. The JMetßodist church will be rebuilt. : FALSE -MARKING OF GOODS. .- . In response to the memorial forwarded by the Association of Chambers of Com•merce^.to 'the Foreign, Secretary,- calling attention to the practice. which has arisen among foreign , manufacturers of marking goods with English names ox phrases of a nature to lead to the false supposition ' that they are British goods a letter has been . received staging/ on behalf of Sir Edward Grey, that the whole question is engaging the earnest attention of the Go vernment. „ . :;■ . • v - TWO THOUSAND MIGRATO, The Hon. J. H. Turner, Agent-General for British /Columbia, left Liverpool yes-, terday 'by; the ; Empress of Britain. In an interview* he dwelt upon the developments of the timber industry in the pro-, vince of British Columbia, stating that at present there are 3,000,000 acres allocated to the trade. Arrangements had . been,! completed, he added, for despatching from England next January2ooo agri-, cultural laborers andv domestic servants for British Columbia. ' INCALCULABLE FRAUDS, Tlie Russian Ministry of Communica- j tions instructed the chief inspector of railways, M. Gorehakof, some time ago to examine the account* of the ; Siberian line, and he has now niade his, report, in which he states he has discovered frauds involving more -than £1,000,000 in the transport branch alone. , In tlie other branches he declares that the defalcations are beyond calculation. charges againsta quebec • . minister! Sir Wilfrid: Laurier ? (says an Ottawa despatch of August 12) is going to Quebec. • at is announced that a Royal Coinmission will be appointed to inquire into the charge brought against Mr Turgeon, Minister of .Lands and Forests for Quebec, by Baron Lepine, a Belgian financier, who alleges that Mr . Tu?gepp demanded r from "Mm a Contribution of 35 cents an acre on the purchase price of 200,000 acres of Quebec Crown lands, the money to goto the funds of a political party. ' , RUSSIA'S TRADE UNION 1 BAN". The Ministry; of the Interior, Russia, has issued instructions to the Governors of the various provinces to dissolve all Zionist societies within their jurisdiction. The representatives of the Ministry have already dissolved in Moscow alone twentyfive trade unions- with a membership of 25,000 workmen. ,\ .;._■_■ Many trade unions . liave come under the ban in St. Petersburg, and the union officials arebeirig arrested by the score every day. . { A court-martial held at St. Petersburg sentenced four persons to death. Two of them were youths under 20 years of ate. BRITISH RIFLE TEAM. The first British rifle team to visit Australia left Ehglam} last week by the C.P.R. liner Empress of Britain from Liverpool for Quebec. The party, which goes out under the auspices of the « National Rifle Association, is composed of fourteen of the finest shots in Great Britain. The tour embraces both Canada and Australia, and will extend over five months. In Australia the team will take part in the great Empire competition. ■■'■„ REPAIR! OF WARSHIPS. { n 1903-4 the amount actually spent on the repairs of ships of the Navy was £2,686,000; in the following vear £3,156,000; in 1905-6, £1,572,000; in 1906, £1,910,000; and the provision for this year is £1,800,200, giving a total of five years of £11,000,000. We (Engineering) have not attempted to differentiate as was done in the debate between the procedure by one Government and that by another, because we are satisfied that the integrity of the Sea Lords can be relied upon to ensure that their conception of the xiecegßitfos of the eaSB jwili be enforced upon the Government,' even to the extent of resignation and an appeal to the public.