MAIL ITEMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8815, 17 May 1907, Page 4

MAIL ITEMS.

London, March 29. Between five hundred and one thousand American and Canadian school teachers are to visit England in the autumn. General Botha, who receives £4OOO a year from the Transvaal Government, is the best paid though the newest of the Colonial Premiers. A Leipsig firm has secured a contract to fcudd an aerial suspension railway in Spiizborgon to serve the co shields. It will he the “ farthest north” line in the world. In the pres ire of 4000 siec'akrs at the Bo rcommoa Couuiy Championship faoihiil ma’.cb, between Kilbridge and Tultk, ye terday, Mr Miebao’ Bonne, vie ui!lor,of Htro!rv.s;own, suddenly expired. Tbo match was alando’-t d.

Etrik.ng figures given in a statistical abstract thow that the United Kingdom is tbo only eiviii-ed country in lho world which has constantly reduced the consumption of alcoholic leverages per bead. Mr Hudson Maxim, New York, claim’, after tea years’experiments, to have invented a safety delegating fuse to explode an armour-piercing shell at any denied d stanca behind an armour p'aio from one to twelve inh.s thick. The life of lowa McKonz'e, six years ol 1, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has been saved by sk n-grafting. Tao chdd wan burned over half htt bedy, and persons contributed 320 p-eces of skin from their own bodies. Vavey, Lrdce Geneva, the home of chocolate and condensed milk factories, is tbo centre of a sir ke so serious that troops Lave been sent to the spot. The strikers tried to seize the milk in A'estie’s rvo-k- , and a girl of 17 was one of threo injured by tbo gendarmes who resisted the laid.

Cap'; id J. C. Hines, who U said io bo a Brill: li officer, has killed Count Constantino i’odboiskk a Russian, in a restaurant at Goldfield, Nevada, Unit cl State?. Hints and his wife met the Count in 1905 at Nome, Alaska, where they have mining prop'-rty. Hines declares chat ho t meked the Count for a d'Slance (f 709 miles, and that on moating him ho shot him at srght. He then gunerdsted hmirelt to the pol ce. It is stated that jealousy was die cauoo o£ the cr’me.

/n alleged miracle brought about by a h'.v d-ops of water from the spring at Lourdes was reported from Buckfastleigh, Devonshire, k.J. mouth. Lets than a week ago Father Matthew, of Buekfmt Abbey, was : tried to be in aa incurable coffditioa and approaching death. He is now, bowe e ! ’, xva’ksng about the ato indd of the Abbey to all appearances in the lest of health. The monks ftssc-rt that he was snat bed f:om death through the agency of hoy water from Lcurdss. Nontenant Bchunrtmn was cngßg.d at she ilembrug Artillery Wo; k-, ilo’iaud, on March 24, in filling a five-inch shell of a form invented by himself with smokeless powd-..r when on explosion occurred, which Idled a workman and wounded uevonil other i. Lieutenant Schuur man futained twelve separate wounds and lo t his left arm. His life is despaired of. The e’nitsd States Navy Department is sgliatt at the discovery tffiat Che taCkship Vermont baa harhored'a woraaU for four daj?. She .s siid lo have asm mid the UQI -o r “ .:nd-identity of a sailor named >viliC'tcon, veho was op shore leave, and io have conformed to the discipline of the cgivice without arousing susmc’o w She was betrayed by an ill timed yearning for cleaulmets. She took a bath at prohibited hour?, •uni the unusual splashing in the buth-room attracted the attention of •be .mastcr-st arms. The woman was at ones seat ashore.

j General Otter, Commander o£ the | Western Ontario Division, epoiking [in Toronto, said that ho did not wish j to bo considered an alarmist, bat.he' 1 believed the clay would corns when • Canada would have to defend her I territory against an invader. The f very fact, ho jjsaid, that the country \ rich and beautiful was bound to i a ttiact some euv oua nation who [ would strive to capture it, and if (they wore not ready to defend the I country the/1 yotdd lose Ui

Private demonstrations at Berlin of the new German wireless tele- i phony this week revealed that the inventor, Count Arco, has perfected j bis system to a point which permits j the exchange of speech in a natural, ; steady voice over a distance of two ; or three miles. The transmission is i effected by sound waves radiated, from poles 30ft high. f Two men who carried the mails j the mails between the Grand Central ; Station, New York, and the sorting j house have been arrested for possess- \ ing silk blonses and costly laces and i other goods despatched by the mail j order houses (“ shopping by post ”). j which recently have lost £IO,OOO in | thefts of this kind. ■ Senator and Mrs Thurston and Mr and Mrs J. 0. Luke gave a novel picnic to a number of friends at New York on March 22. The> went down in a submarine which was submerged for two hours, during which dinner was cooked and served. ■