MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 311, 11 January 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

PARIS, Nov. 30.—'The beauty and musical talent of Mine. Signe Lund Si. abo have taken Paris by storm. The Temps pronounces her “ the most interesting composer of the younger Scandinavian (she was born in Norway) school. Her sister, Miss Lund, professor cf vi cal music in the Syracuse Univer- > sity. is already famous. Mme. Skabo’s first compositions, published earlv in her teens, immediatclv attracted the attention of Edwaill Grieg, and at his instance she went to Berlin and Paris, where her compositions have caused a furore. She is fond of society, as is every beautiful woman, but she has a hobby that her friends have reason to appreciate, and that is a love for concocting novel soups and new dressings for fish, flesh and fowl. ROME, Nov. 30.—The Pope, at a special audience granted to Dr William Mm r-hy, the rector of the Irish College and a deputation of students extolled the fidelitv of Catholic Ireland a!ll 0 f Irishmen all over the world to the Holy See. , . . Hs spoke of the Irish party mission now in the United States, and expressed satisfaction at the friendly retention gianted by President Roosevelt to its members. He remarked that the Irish element is one of the cm tes of America’s vitality and

cl fa tness. , Tue Pontiff closed the audience by liestowing the Apostolic benediction on all irishmen in the Old Country srd ir. tlm New World. LONDON, Nov. 30. —The mission of Messrs Redmond, McHugh, and O Donnell to the United States in behalf of the Irish partv '.as been almost entirely ignored'by the English press, their reception by President Roosevelt being mentioned in two lines. The onlv extended reference to theu **■ v i s it took the form of an appa.rent.ly officially inspired paragraph predicting that the mission will be an utter tauiire. The Irish situation is causing intense uneasiness to the British Govern ernt, as tire United Irish League is iust as potent as the Land League was in its greatest days But there is no crime to ailord a pretext for -n----•cicmg the Coercion Act, the people . • it\,nf taken the advice of then; eato avoid anything of that kind. Britain, too, the league HewbßmAicoionstiated its strength at

lia.r,uitary el tore an important Pa.r--.lrisk vote is pending and the bif.nth of the The local Rurciman, the Liberal-Imp<j;wd from didale, every required pledge ofr Uy 1 nIrish question, even in direct antagofrisni to the recent apostasies o£ bis Jftders,-