MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 379, 2 April 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

CZAR’S IRON HAND,,

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb* 16.- A t circular has been sent to the Russian 1 press forbidding any, mention of .the b fate of the* Rosslya, .which was re- i; cently, “ suppressed.” c No oißcial publication has been made t —but it is said that Amfiteatrofi, the a author of the offensive biography of a th,' Czar and the history of the Ro- s manoff family, under the transparent j disguise of a noble family named £ “ Obmauoff,” has been sent to Irkutsk j in Eastern Siberia, and Sazonoff, the editor, to tlie neighboring provincial t city of Pskofi. LONDON, Feb. 16^—A strange unre- 1 corded incident happened this week in i the House of - | denly discovered that the proposal to ] appoint a Second Deputy Speaker un- ] der the new rules was illegal without Die personal assent of .the King. The proposal might come on any, minute, so Victor Cavendish, M.P., the Comptroller of the King’s House-/ hold, was posted oil to the Royal assent. On reaching Marlborough House he found that the King had gone motoring to Windsor, and would not be back for an hour. Fortunately for the Government, an unexpected debate intervened before the new rule, and Cavendish arrived in the King’s motor in the palace yard with the Royal assent just in .the nick of time to save Minister Balfour 'rom the awkward neressity of acknowledging that he had overlooked this constitutional form. Scotland Yard was grievously, hoaxed this week over the supposed appearance in the House of Commons of Colonel Lynch, Galway’s absent member. George Lynch, a war correspondent in Cuba, China, and South Africa, visited the House as the guest of Major Jameson, M.P., and signed ,his name in a book as 41 Lynch, M-P-Instantly word was conveyed to Scotland Yard and a cordon of detectives was drawn around the chamber until two of them who were personally acquainted with Colonel Lynch saw they were after the wrong man. The incident created a great commotion among the Ministers. Scotland Yard evidently apprehends that L>nch will take his seat, as it is still closely watching both Houses oi Parliament. As a matter of fact, Lynch apparently has no intention of risking his liberty. He has had no communication whatever since with the Irish members, who are rather disgusted at the part he has

I BERLIN, Feb. 16,-Some new details of the fearful balloon journey which Captain Tarisch von Siegfield recently made from Berlin to Ant werp ending in his death, have neen made known by his companion, Dr. | L The" distance, 480 miles, was made in 5 hours and 83 minutes. It takes an express train fifteen hours to maae the run by rail beUveen the twociUes. The balloon attained the most tern fic speed between Hildesheim an Wesel, going at the rate of 135 miles jThe 108 miles after passing Wesel was covered in 73 minutes. At otic time the balloon was flying I at the rate of sixty yards a second —about two miles a minute. Captain Siegffeld was one ot the best aeronauts in the German army, and started to make a short experimental trip in a military, balloon, tak-

ing Dr Linke with him. A violent wind was blowing and carried the balloon away. In five hours, when near Antwerp, the balloon collapsed and was swept

across the river Sche.dt, just above the masts of the vessels there. An

anchor was thrown out, but the cable broke.

The balloon was then driven over the village of Zwyndrecht, followed by. an excited crowd watching the desperate efforts of the aeronauts. Ur. Linke sprang from the balloon when at a height of fifteen feet_ Captain von Siegfield tried to do likewise, but became entangled in the ■ropes and hung by his left foot. The balloon sped on for two hundred yards, dragging him head downward. The peasants then secured the balloon with ropes, and found that von Siegfield’s head was shattered, and his spine broken. LONDON, Feb. IC.—Geo. Cadbury, an extensive manufacturer of cocoa, having absorbed the whole proprietary interest in the Daily News for one hundred and forty thousand pounds,

lurposes to conduct it on anti-war ines. 1

Mr Cadbury, as a Quaker, is opposed to all wars. He showed recently the consistency of his convictions in a remarkable way by refusing to accept an order to manufacture chocolate for the troops. He intends to exclude from his paper all accounts of horse racing and betting, but will report athletic contests.

He has established a model village in connection with his manufactory, run on entirely new and philanthropic

lines. It lias proved a great success. Undoubtedly liis public courage in attempting to stem this war fever will be repaid by equal success before long. BERLIN, Feb. 16.—What is styled, here “an American duel,” occurred, at Lemberg recently, causing a great sensation.

Carl Mrzyglod, a second teacher, first swallowed arsenic, then while writhing 'in pain seized a razor and gashed his throat, after that he shot himself twice with a revolver, and finally hanged himself by a contrivance previously, fixed on a door. He had had a quarrel with his rival for the affections of a Polish girl, and they had drawn lots to determine which should kill himself.

Paris, Feb. 8. A comely matron with a grievance greatly enlivened an otherwise dull session of the*Chamber of Deputies this week by pelting at Deputy Paulmier with overripe eggs. Admiral Rieunier was in the midst of a learned discourse on the budget when tho woman, standing in a public gallery, began to hurl the eggs and shrill epithets into the semicircle of Deputies below her. She aimed at M. Paulmier, but while he successfully codged several others were sadly bespattered. A stampede of Deputies followed, but a panic was averted by tho woman’s prompt arrest.

Another humorous scene occurred during the debate on a bill to regulate tho hours of work of coal miners. Tho first section of the bill, adopted by a large majority, provides that six months after it passes a day’s work shall be limited to nine hours, two years later to eight and a half hours and two yoars after that to eight hours. All the elements opposed to the Republican party combined to defeat this vital paragraph, but unsuccessfully. In the discussion Deputy Aynard produced tables to show that the death rate among miners was really not so high as it had been represented to be by partisans of the eight-hour day, being only 8 per cent, per annum. Socialist Deputy Bouveri promptly produced tables showing that the death rate in the last ten years is only 2 per cent, among the shareholders in the same mines

St. Petersburg, Feb. B.—The Russian oil trade is becoming more and more depressed. Small owners are bombarding the Government with petitions for easier terms, as they cannot make both ends meet. Many of them have applied for help in cash, offering to mortgage their wells as security. The Government has a scheme to reduce freights on oil to tho frontiers of the Russian Empire in order to open new markets where the Standard Oil Company has a monopoly. Tho Government is in correspondence with the Ministers of Trade in Austria, Germany, and Turkey on tho subject.