MAIL ITEMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10640, 8 May 1913, Page 5

MAIL ITEMS.

London, March 29. The late Mr E. H. Harriman, the famous American railway magnate, left £14,0^0,000. railway tiai via Tennessee was blown from the rials and overturned. Yfent Ham Qnardians have received 1620 applications for the post of gateporter at the workhouse. Dredging in the Thames below Souring L-v-t- workman l-roaght np liQge spec.:aans o; >rag 0 ’ antlers, apparently belonging to a prehistoric species.

The prohibition of petroleum spirit hair-washes is recommended by the Departmental Committee on Petroleum, in their final report. A resilient spring button, which relieves the strain on the trousers, the buttons, and the braces, has just been patented, eaya Men’s Wear. The Maclaine of Loohbnie who owns 85,000 acres in the Isle of Mull, is going to America to appear on the vaudeville stage. . woman shot her husband dead in Paris on Sunday night after a dispute over politics. The pair had been married forty years, Baron Henri de Rothschild has written a play entitled “Croesus,” the theme of which is that money always stands in the way of love. The play will be produced in London.

The German Government is stated to have decided to tax the funds of the trade unions and working men’s leagues, as well as large fortnnes, to provide the £50,000,000 Army increase.

A Bill before tbe Ohio Legislature provides that tbe State institutions can be supplied with oleomargarine instead of butter. The cheaper grade of “smear” will save the State 35,000d01. annually. Dublin Corporation adopted by 28 votes to five, a resolution in favour of building a municipal art gallery to house a collection cf pictures, worth between £40,000 and £50,000, presented to the city by Sir Hugh Lane.

A correspondent of the British Medical Journal reports that an overseer at a timber mill in Lagos was caught by his coat tails in a fly wheel and uwnng ronnd for an hour and a half. He was then alive, but d ied three hours later.

Mr Balfour is writing a book on political economy, which will follow the main line of country traversed by “The Foundations of Belief,” in so far as it will be a sceptical examination of many of the established theories and methods of the science.

Word was received at the general offices of an eastern railroad, St. Louis, on March 26 that a train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad went through a bridge over the Wabash River near Montezuma, lad. Every passenger is reported drowned. The London Yachting World today proposes that the deed of gift under which the New York Yacht Club holds the America’s Cup as trustee, be submitted to arbitration. “It is an untenable position that the New 'fork Yacht Club is the only body capable of tbe interpreting the deed of gift, ” A telephone message from Paris says that a carriage cleaner found on the Nord express a satchel containing a~ cheque for 1,300,000 marks, (about £60,000,) drawn by a Berlin bank on the Bank of Italy at Rome, and also a passport in the name of Commander Arrizo Rossi. The cheque remains unclaimed. It Is in the hands of the police. Though the Stonehenge estate, the property of Sir Edward Antrobus, is to be sold, it is unlikely that the famous historical circle of the Druids will be removed to decorate some American estate. Sir Edward has issued a statement that the estate will not be sold unluss the Druid’s circle is exempted from the purchase, the owner being desirous of preserving it for the nation. “Save the babies,” will be tbe motto of the organisations affiliated in the coming campaign for a “spring cleanup” of New York City.. Societies conducting milk stations, day nurseries, baby hospitals and other institutions, and movements working for infant welfare are to take part in the preliminary campaign of education now starting, it was announced, laving special emphasis on the need of clean homes and surroundings as a prime requisite for promoting the health of babies.

Says a correspondent, there was one little paragragb in this week’s papers which escaped the attention of most people, but which I make hold to say has been conned most carefully in the Chancelleries of Europe. The borne fleet came down from the Irish coast to Portland. Fearfully heavy weather was encountered, and most ot the battleships were frequently awasli from stem to stern. One of them, the St. Vincent, just turned out of the dockyards, dipped her nose so much in the boiling surf,that the Admiral in charge flagged her to slow down and proceed under easy steam, while most of them shipped huge quantities of water, and had boats and running gear damaged. Yet the division made the trip in record time. That is a point that will stick in the minds of the naval experts of the Continent who believe that the British Navy has done its dash.