MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 26 July 1907, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

London, .lune (i. Plans have been selected for the Edinburgh 1908 Exhibition. Mr Itenry Fhipps, the millionaire steel manufacturer, of Philadelphia, has retired with a fortune of £20,000,000. The baby Prince of Aslurias has been enrolled a recruit in a Spanish regiment, and wears a gold regimental number pinned on his bib. The recent rise in the Danube has done damage to the extent of £1,000,000 in Hungary. Three hundred houses and thousands of cattle have been washed away.

The first motor car show ever held i'i Russia was open on Saturday at St. Pet ersbnrg. Fifteen Egyptian students are to be sr-nt every year to England to complete their education as engineers, doctors, 'awyers, and professors.

The American Reef Trust Ims bought one of the great Argentine packing companies, and thus gains a new hold on the London market. Great inconvenience has been caused I throughout France by a sailors' strike, which has now spread to all ports except Brest. The price of food lias already risen in consequence. Mr J. W. Robinson, a wealthy showman, of Cincinatti, is the head of a syndicate which is offering to buy up Zion City. An ofTer of £3,600,000 is made for tho site.

Four New York policemen, standing on each others shoulders, rescued five persons from the second storey of a burning house. An acre of fully planted orchard land at Wisbech St. Mary, IbU of Ely, was sold by auction yesterday for £575. Colonel Mark May hew says every single motor 'bus in London is losing money, and the proprietors' hearts are broken. The cause is the great expense of repairs to wheels. The question of the abandonment of St. Helena as a military garrison is likely to be re-opened owing to the proposed establishment by Germany of a cmiser base on the Kamerun coast.

A syndicate rcspresenting the great Beef Trust packing houses of America has contributed a fund of £ao,ooo to be used by the University of Illinois in the study of food problems. A corner plot of land situated at the junction of Fifth avenue and Thirtyeighth street, TTew York, measuring 25ft by lOOflfl, has just Ticen sold for £l4O, 000.

The expenses of the defence in the Thaw trial, which amount to a quarter of a million dollars, have now been paid. Mr Delmas, while another of the defending counsel, whose name is not disclosed, has received £20,000, and it is reported that he asked for £20,000 more. The American travelling public, alarmed at the many accidents caused through broken rails, are suggesting the removal of the tariff on rails to enable sound rails made in England and Germany to enter America duty free. A large dog saved Olive Thomas, two years old, from drowning at Lcight. The child's perambulator had rolled down a hill into a lake and she was in danger of drowning, when the dog plunged in and dragged the perambulator to the bank.

A photograph of President Roosevelt which is now being exhibited at Lansing, Mitchigan, is claimed to be the largest in the world. It is an enlargement nn bromide paper, and measures 17ft by 12ft. The picture cost £4O. In spite of public opinion, the Processions Committee at CnvcnlryA'tVe decided that La Milo shall wear the objectionable ''costume'' in the Lady (iodiva pageant, and as a consequence the Mayor has announced his intention of resigning his position on the committee. In Belfast, where spotted fever has caused .IM deaths, the authorities believe that the worst of the epidemic is now over. During the past week the cases have decreased by three and the deaths by six as compared with the previous week's figures. Mr Thomas V. Kyan, the New York railroad and financial magnate, paid £2300 for a Jersey bull at an auction. Altogether ninety-seven head of cattle, including calves, brought £18,790—a record purchase for America. The congregation at Fairhill Baptist Church, which is situated inthe largest mill section in America, have subscribed £2400 for the erection of a roof garden on tho church, where variety entertainments will be given. The church is trying to counteract the attractions of the poolrooms and saloons.