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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10402, 16 July 1912, Page 7

MAIL ITEMS.

London, Jane 2. ■ Half a million visitors ate expected 113 Paris for the International Musical Festival. The Admiralty invite each member of Parliament co go to Spithead on July 9th, to inspect the assembled fleet on its departure for the manoeuvres, A-British expedition is going to Easter Island, In the Pacific, to try to solve the problem of the gigantic prehistoric statues which exist there. D, D A. Gor ton, a famous American eugenisfc has become the father of twins at 80 years of ago. Mr Jordan L. Mott, jun., a New York gilded youth, has eloped with an actress in a tramp steamship,fand his parents are pursuing him in a liner. Patriotic French women now greet a regiment of soldiers in the street by saluting in military stvle. A “new palace, "containing 350 rooms, is to be built to honse the cardinals when they have to elect a successor to the Pope. Daring the past two years the Fulham borongh electricity undertaking the has shown a surplus of over £9O ' The Turkish Government have decided to order the expulsion of all Italians from the Empire with| the exception of workmen, poor and widows. A hansome cab ; says the Pall Mall Gazette, has been added to the exhibits at the London sington Palace. Tne gro;s value of the the Duke of Fife has been probate at £1 000 000, “so present can be ascertained. The Chinese troops In surrounded by Tibetans munition has given out, are feeding on dead animals. Farmers were 'surprised Bath and West Sho w by qualification of Lord Rotharihild’s champion milking cow because the milk was deficient in butter fst The new French military Clement Bayard IV., in her •trials near Faria, attained the record height of 95i6 feet An electric train containing 300 passengers overturned on a steep incline near Naples, and 73 people were injured. Mr Peter A. B. Widener has endowed a home for crippled children with an additional sum of £BOO,OOO in memory of his son, George D. Widener, who perished in the Titanic disaster. An Irish emigrant who went to the States 18 years ago, and is now a prospsrons saloon keeper, has bought the whole of an historic estate in County Leitrim, including his native village. Mr Arthur Stringer, the Canadian poet and novelist, has been killed at Niagara Falls by an oilstove explosion His wife, formerly Jobyna Howland, an actress, and baby, two mouths old, were mortally injured A congress on road making, attended by 2000 delegates from all parts of the world, will sake place in London in June next year. The rare spectacle of a warship in the Manchester Ship Cailal will be seen within a short time, the fast destroyer Amazon having bean ordered to pay a four day.T visit to Manchester. In the course of Tuesday morning rambling noises ware heard from a lake called Dunkirk, at Northwich. Presently millions of gallons of the water disappeared through the bottom, presumably into old salt workings below During the manoeuvres, at the Cheshire Yeomattry camp near the Eaton Hail, a horse ridden by a trooper named Mlngay bolted into some trees and crushed the rider agaias- a tree trunk, killing him instnatly. An immense forest, with trees laid fiat on the ground like a wheatfield under a cyclone, has been found twenty-five feet underground in Baffin’s Land, where at the present day there is not a tree growing within 1000 mile}. Signor Bond, the Italian tenor, is claiming £lO 000 damages from a railway company because he caught a obili while travelling to Toronto. He alleges that the heating apparatus was carelessly shnt off. There was launched last Friday by Messrs Vickers, Ltd., from their shipyard »t Barow, a new submarine, E 5, built for the British Navy She is the largest submarine yet put in the water, and has ail tSie latest improvements, including wireless" telegraphy and disappearing qaiok-tmug guns. She will have inoreassd S’psed aod effectiveness. The Morning Post’s Malta correspondent says: While the submarine B 9 was entering Valetta Harbour from practice on Wednesday she came into collision with the steamer Admiral Lambinu. Searchlights from the warships mored in the harbour were thrown on the scene of the collision, and the submarine was safely conveyed into dock. New Zealand's action In placing the new battle-ernlser at the disposal of the British Admiralty and its prospective stationing in the North S*a are given prominence in the German pap3rs The Taegliohe Kuudsohau says; “This is one more proof that England, despite #ll assertions to the oontany and despite snob evidences of goodwill on the part of Germany as the sending of Baron Marsonali to the London Embassy, still regards Germany as her arch enemy. ” A fatal aernplana accident occurred at Amefibnry, near Salisbury, at about 7 o'clock on Sunday evening. one man, named Williams, being k lled and three persons, including two soldiers, seriously injured Lieutenant Ashton, after making a flight over Amesbnry, brought his machine safely to earth, but It ran into a crowd of people injuring several, three of whom were conveyed to the Bulford Military Hospital The aeroplane subsequently turned over, but the airman escaped unhurt. The name of the injured civilian Is Faggs. In consequence of a short circuit in the petroleum district of Moreni, Roamanla, tea petroleum wells caught fire, and the gear wan completely consumed. Seven of the wells belonged to an American company. Two clerks were burnt to tleash. Thi« disaster will cause enormous loss to several Roumanian, Dntch and English companies with foreign capital The fire has been estiaguished. A young farmer is in custody at Dromar, Od Down, on a charge of shooting a 14-?ea?-old girl named Lavary, who is ia a critical condition. The girl stated that the man I demanded a kits and cn her refusal said ha would give her till he counted too to comply. After counting nine he fired a gun point blank ! at her.