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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10739, 2 September 1913, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright London, July 12. A rally of 30,000 Boy Scouts was held in Perry Hall Park, Birmingham. German civilians who have qualified for the official airman’s license now number 450. In many parts of Herts and Essex the wheat and barley is quite six feet in height. Harvesting will start nest month, Mrs Marion Stiles, the actress, was burnt to death while cleaning gloves with petrol. The London County Council yesterday decided against golf on Sunday in London Park, Toe League of Housewives in New York is agitating for eggs to be sold by weight instead of in dozens. A service of passenger airships from Loudon to Paris, Brighton, and the cities of the Midlands will begin in the autumn Six persons have died and eighteen others care dying in the village of Fiores, near Avillia, in Spain, in consequence of eating diseased mutton. A fallen aerolite destroyed a village in Spain, and caused great damgs in the surrounding country. Tibetans who were surrounded by Chinese troops killed their women and children oefore going into battle, for fear that they should fall into the hands of the enemy, who were afterwards defeated. •Four doctors and a nurse are attending a Pekingese dog belonging to a wealthy American woman at Newport, U. S. A. The dog is suffering from “nervous shook.” The Medical Press declares that whooping cough destroys more lives than cancer, tuberculosis, smallpox, and spotted fever- taken together There are three drinking saloons in Baltimore to every policeman. This gives you three distinct guesses- as to where to find the policeman,. says the Toronto Telegram. The municipal councillors of Paris are to have three weeks’ holiday at the city’s expense. The expenses of their wives will also be defrayed on condition that they are taken in the capacity of “nurse attendants.” The natives throughout the Australasian archipelago are, according to Mr Mahaffy, Deputy High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, so enfeebled by long years of peace and idleness that their total annihilation is a question of a few years. The contract for the largest dry dock in America, at Quebec, was awarded to MrH, P. Davis, of Montreal. It is stated that the contract price is £550,000, which is believed to be much below the prices of the English firms who tendered It is announced that Canada will negotiate a treaty with China limiting the number of Chinese immigrants to 450 yearly. Though a £IOO head taxprevaUs, thousands of Chi - nese now arrive annually A telegram from Lloyds’ agent at Jeddah, the port of Mecca, in the Red Sea, states that the Dutch steamer Krakatoa, from the Malay Archipelago, has stranded on a reef near Jeddah, and that 1618 pilgrims have been taken off. The airman Favro, flying recently in Switzerland, frightened a colony of storks, who had not returned to their nests. It has been noticed that the numbers of storks in Switzerland has perceptibly diminished since flying became common. These birds are said to have a partoularly evident dread of aeroplanes. A swarm of bees left their hive in the luggage van of a train at Bridgend Station Glamorganshire, and settled in the van and the passenger compartments, making the removal of luggage impossible The bees travelled|two or three times in the train up and down the branch line to Abergwynfi before all of them returned to the hive, which was placed on Brigend Station platform.