SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8171, 29 June 1906, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Per R.M.S. Sonoma.) THE WORLD'S TRADE. WASHNQTON, May 17. The world's international oomoneroewill aggregate fully 25,000,000, <oooflols in the year 1906 (says a Bulletin issued by the Department of Commerce and Labour). By the term "World's International Commerce" is meant the imports ylus ■exports of all countries of the world from wbicn stut'stinai trade reports «re available. The figures given indicate that trade between the nations WM9O6, will be six timfs as ■much as as in 1850, two and odo ibalf as" in 1870, and '25 per cent Jmore than in 1900. • The United now stands at the bead of the world's exportation. The average monthly exportation from the United States in the bine months ■ended with March, 1906, is shown by the Bureau of Statistics figures •as 147,203,973 dola. The monthly -■average from the United Kingdom for the same period is 143,574 912 *dole. The average from Germay during the twelve months ending with December, 1905, was 110,757,800 ■dols, and the average from France for the twelve months' period ended with iebruary was 72.370,400 •dole. An examination of the import columns shows that the United states stands third among the nations as an iimporter, the monthly •average of importations into the States'for the nine months •ended with March being 101,506,417 -dole. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. IIOUISVrLLB (Kentucky), May 28. Eight persons were Killed and injured fey the derailment of two coaches to a passenger train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad to-day. The train left Knoxville last night, was on time, -•and was nearing Union station/in Louisville, with a moderate speed, when the flange on a wheel of the smoking-car broke, throwing open a and oausing two of the coaches to side-swipe a lot of box oars on •a aiding. The smoking-car did not break loose from the front of the train, and was dragged one hundred feet along the ties until the side of "the oir struck a string of freight •oars. The front of the smoking oar was uninjured, but the right side of tne car was demolished and torn off. The front end of a ladies' ooaoh was stove in for twenty feet, seats being torn up and all the windows 'Shattered. The hot-water heater was torn loose from its fastenings.and Jiurled to the middle of the oar, 'killing one person. The bodies of -the dead were so badly disfigured that identification was not made un•til late to-day. A GOLD FIND. SEATTLE, May 28. What promises to be one of the 'riauest'strikes ever made in the mining history of the world has been turned up ob Holyoike Creek, on •'the Tundra, just north of Nome and ' within a stone's throw of the famous •Portland Beach. The mine is owned by Deobart, Bard and Nixon, two of whom, it is claimed, took out 47,000d015. in one day. When bedrodk was struck one portion of it was nearly one inch tbiok with pore virgin gold. The winter cleanup on the Den hart, Bard and Nixon •claim aggregates about 1,000,000 •dols. THE DEFENCE UF CANADA. WINNIPEG, May 29. The removal of the Imperial garrison from Esquimau and Halifax fortresses marks an epoch in the hißtory of Canada. It means that for the first time in three hundred . years there are no British soldiers, using the term British in its re strioted seuse, doing duty in-North America. In future, all b the Canadian'forts and garrison posts will be- manned solely by Canadians, under the direot control of the Dominion Government. Part of the scheme of defence elaborated by the Imperial Government, when Esquimalt v>BB a fortress and a naval station, was a system of submarine mines, arranged by an expert, to guard the entrance to the harbour, but now the Canadian Government has taken over the fortress all these mines have been removed, and the cables and other materials placed )ia the naval stores. The Uanadian 'Government has done this because it was considered too expensive, so the fortress will be maintained only • as: occasions requires. In other words, it has been plaoed in the hands of caretakers. The mines which have been removed from the harbour were placed in Huch a way 'that it would have been impossible for any belligerent ship to have entered, complete destruction being its fate. These mines were controlled by the fort in such a way that one or any number of them -could be exploded as desired.