FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 118, 29 May 1901, Page 4

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

NEWS FROM THE FROZEN NORTH. (Per R.M.S. Sierra at Auckland). San Francisco, May 9. The winter mails from Alaska have been received, and were most welcome to the friends of the thousands of men who arc nearly cut off at Nome and Dawson. Reports from Dawson indicate that the output of Klondike will reach fifty million dollars this year. Improved methods and improved machinery have caused a handsome showing, and great quantities of modern machinery will be shipped to the gold regions during the coming summer. The winter has been one of the most severe of which any record has been made in the north, and eight or nine thousand inhabitants of Nome have suffered most severely, as they are mostly unaccustomed to hardships, and have not constructed buildings calculated to keep out the cold. A number of reports of men being frozen on the trails, and even in the cabins, have been received, but on the whole it appears that the death-rate has not been larger in this wild and frozen land than iii the more comfortable localities. There will bo no rush of prospectors to the north in the coming season, as it is now pretty generally understood that the chances of success are no greater than at the gaming table, and the hardships to be endured are terrifying.

GREAT AMERICAN EXHIBITIONS.

The pan-American Exposition opened at Buffalo, New York, on May Ist, and is attracting a great number of visitors, which it will doubtless continue to do during the entire summer. The gates were opened without ceremony, as the dedication exercises have been postponed until May 20. Remarkable electrical exhibitions were a feature of the opening, as they are to bo of the exposition. The Government display was complete, as were many other remarkable features. Five thousand dollars were paid for the first ticket of admission. President McKinley sent messages and regrets. A salute of forty-five Ariel bombs was followed by the raising of hundreds of flags on the fine buildings which have long been in course of erection for the exposition. Tho exhibits are of great commercial importance, and great pains have been taken in their preparation.

The city of St. Louis is busy with preparations for an international exposition to bo held in 1903, and will receive a handsome Government subsidy.