OUR MAIL BUDCET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 8

OUR MAIL BUDCET.

SUMMARY OF WORLD HAPPEN IX OS. LONDON, Sept, 1. Thousands of babies' lives are being saved by injections of sea-water. The Chinese Government has decided to simplify and systematise the Celestial language. It is estimated that m one way or another the series of strikes have cost the nation a hundred millions sterling. The strike has cost Liverpool close on £9,003,000. . A Spanish Anarchist has been arrested at Colon for "plotting" to blow up the Panama Canal, says the New York Evening Mail. Mr Andre Jagev-Schmidt has completed the circuit of the world m 59 days 19 hoars 43 minutes 37 4-5 seconds. Three members of a family who died mysteriously at Lancaster are believed to have met their deaths by arsenical poisoning. Owing to the water famine m Fifeshire coast towns, many factories have been «losed, throwing hundreds of workers idle. Mr Frank Chambers, of Philadelphia, haa invented a. wireless apparatus so small that it can be carried m the crown of a hat. According to Mr Rutledge Rutherford, a Chicago food expert, 250,000 children were killed last year m America, by poisoned- food. Promotion m the Navy has been undergoing gradual acceleration m recent years, and men now reach the flafe list at a . much earlier nge than formerly. A terrible double murder, m connection with which a Glasgow man named Robert John MAdam is m custody, occurred at Dungannon, Ireland. The victims were the prisoner's - father and mother. The new German turbine torpedo-boat G179 has attained a speed of 36 knots, says the Berlin Neueste Nachrichten. The previous highest speed of any German torpedo craft was 34 knots. A Treasury grant of £50,000 per annum has been allocated to a scheme for promoting scientific research into agricultural problems. No fewer than 180 bands — a record number — will take part m the annual band' festival at the Crystal Palace on September 30. Society women m Berlin are up m arms against the new police order forbidding them to wear hats m the stalls m the theatres. ,- A battleship, which "is believed to be the largest m the world," has been launched by an ' American firm for the Argentine Republic. All- Kansas teachers will be required m future^, to know the elements of agriculture before they can teach m the country schools. It is expected that the claims for compensation arising out of the recent anti-Jewish riots m Monmouthshire will total £10,000. Ten persons were killed and twentyone others mo.re or less injured as a result of a motor char-a-banc disaster two and a half miles from Consettin County, Durham. At "Elgin, Illinois, two motor-racers were ' killed by their car overturning, and earlier m the- day twenty persons were injured by a portion of the grandstand collapsing. ' Vilhjmar Stefamsson, the head of the American Museum expedition m Arctic British Columbia, has discovered a race of men of European type who had never seen a white man. - Office girls are becoming more and more popular m New York, because, unlike the boys they supersede, they never whistle, smoke, loiter, or "chee.l. The trustees of the National Gallery have purchased the famous "Adoration of the Magi," by lan Gossart, of Mabuse from Rosalind, Countess of Oarlisle, for £40,000. The naptha barque .Lyndhurst, belonging to the Standard Oil Company, blew up after catching fire near Capetown. The crew had a miraculous esThe miners' strike m tlve Rhondda Valley, which has lasted since November, and has cost at least £3,000,000, will end with the beginning of September. A terrible affair is reported from a village m Hesse. A young German who had just returned from London, shot his father-in-law, mother-in-law, . wife, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and then committed suicide by firing a bullet through his mouth. In next year's naval estimates it is understood that provision will be made for the building of a new royal yacht to take the place of the Alberta, which is practically worn out. The new vessel will be rather larger and speedier than the Alberta.

Under the auspices of the Winnipeg Industrial Bureau 100 prominent business men of Western Canada will visit the chief industrial cities of Great Britain during June 1912 and will spend six weeks m this country. Thirteen workmen, mostly Italians, were yesterday killed -^iy the collapse of a railway bridge m course of construction near Brail m connection with the new railway line now being laid down m tho Lower Engadine. There is a recrudescence of acts of wanton damage on the French railways. Telephone and telegraph wires have been cut and signals, tampered with m various part of the country. In no instance has an accident resulted or an arrest been made

Flying chairs are the latest amusement at the Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace. The apparatus, costing over £5000, gives people all the thrills of a flight m an aeroplane. While watching Heybridge (Essex) cycle sports on Saturday, Lewis Drew, thirty-one, foundryman, received a slight scratch on the cheek from a woman's hatpin. Inflammation set m, and his death lias occurred from erysipelas resulting from the scratch. Mr W. Pember Reeves, who was New Zealand Minister of Labor seventeen years ago, believes that the success that has followed compulsory arbitration m New Zealand might be repeated m Great Britain.

The Duke of Westminster has purchased two hunters which were exhibited last week at the Dublin- Horse Show. He paid £400 and £300 for them. On the wliole, good prices were given for hunters. A weight carrier formerly the property of the Earl of Kenmare, was sold for £700. £5,000,000 FROST. It is estimated (says a Winnipeg despatch) that the 6 to 8 degrees of frost throughout Northern Saskatchewan and North- Western Manitoba on Friday night lias deteriorated Svheat by four grades. There will be a loss of £5,000,---000 m the season's,, estimated, .value. The Rivadayia, one oif the two Argentine battleships, ordered m the, United States, was launched at tl^lEb^.Rjvei; Shipbuilding 'Yards, Philadelphia, on, Tuesday. The, vessel, which w^^eicrjiby ed by the PresidentJn a congratulatory telegram as the la^gpsfcMlx; Abe Aye-rid," & oooft. long, and ncr displacement when completed wilf be 26,600 jtojis. „' ( VIOLENT 1 STORM^A'T'CHA'RIiES- \ TON. „-,- ; . • : A violent : storm, which lasted 3,6 hours, unroofing houses, ,gtj«ees', laying low wires, and driving the sea into the lower parts of the*>{bwn, is re.-^ ported at Charleston. : The damage t$ property is estimate?* jtttJo^{»ivdS2o^,jX)Qs'' but the loss of life Ts small. "The^'wind reached a velocity of 94 miles an^hour, and the tide rose eight feet, dojnjm.uch damage to the craft m the JuirboY... ; ';; STRIKE TRAFFIC: For the strike week ended 120 the traffic receipts of 52 railways of the. United Kingdom amounted l/o *J520,029,---311, which sh<iws a decrease of as much as £481,539 when compared 'witl^ the corresponding ■week of last year. The receipts per mile fell from £116 19s 1* to £94 6s.

THE NAfy^L AIRSHIP. Some difficulty has arisen m connection with the y . naval airship building, at .Barrow. It has been found that when filled with hydrogen she would not carry the 20 tons she Mas designed to carry, and the question to be settled is whether she shall be cut m two and another section added amidships or whether the Admiralty will agree to her carrying so much weight. THE PENNSLYVANIA LYNCHING.

A telegram from Westchester (Pennsylvania) states that, contrary .to the usual outcome of such' crimes m Anie-

rica, the local authorities have arrested eight men and boys m connection with the burning of a negro at Coatesville (Pennsylvania) on the 13th ult. Two of the prisoners gave evidence for the State. One, named Bostick, related to the Court details of an attempt made by the victim to escape after he had been set on fire, and described how the dying man was beaten back into the flames by the crowd armed with rails torn from a fence. A LINER IN. COLLISION. A Lloyd's telgeram form Erith states that the Union-Castle liner Braemar Castle and the steamer Tudhoe, of West Hartlepool, laden with coal for Dagenham, collided m the Thames. The Tudhoe put ashore to save sinking. She lias four holes on the port side, the lifeboat has been smashed, and the deckhouse and other deck gear are damaged. The damage to the Braemar- Castle is unknown. SALE OF MAIL STEAMERS. The fine fleet of steamers owned by the Imperial Direct West India Mail Line, whose service from Bristol to Kingston (Jamaica) was abandoned last year as a result of disagreement between the Imperial and Jamaican Governments over the subsidy for the renewal of the contract, is gradually being broken up. Two liners, the Port Antonio and the Port Royal, have been sold to the Turkish Government for £64,000 each, while the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand has purchased the Port Kingston, a vessel of 7,585 tons gross, with a speed of about 18 knots. The price paid was £100,000.

MOORS AND* CHRISTIANITYTwo Angera Moors m Ceuta (says a 1 angier despatch) have been converted to Christianity and baptised by the Spanish bishop there. A great procession went through the streets displaying the two converts. The Angera tribesmen who go to the Ceuta market to sell provisions saw this procession and. were furious. Going back to their villages, they sent out couriers and called a meeting of their tribe. It was decided that if the two converts were ever caught they should be burned alive.