MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11824, 3 January 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, January 1 The wrecking of the postal van in the Otfcerbsrg railway accident caused the destruction of a large parcel of bonds that were proceeding to Paris. London, Brussels, and Antwerp for selling day. The Bourse estimate of the losses is from fifteen million to twenty million marks. General Booth opens an anti-sui-cide bureau, and has appointed officers to give sympathetic and sensi ble advice ko despairing persons, thereby hoping to decrease the number of suicides. Mr D. D. Sheehan, on being reelected uupposed for Mid Cork, declared that the election would free the Irish party fro in the narrow despotism which was rendering it useI less for any great national purpose. jMr William O'Brien, M. P., stated that Mr Sheehan intended to take legal proceedings whi/?"h would lead to°revelations of greater public interest than anything since the Parnell Commission. j j