MAIL NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 453, 24 June 1902, Page 4

MAIL NEWS

Rome, May 10. The Pope received in audienco to-day ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia.

Cardinal Bampolla, the Papal Secretary of State, had arranged that Natalie’s audience should be private, but at the last moment the Pope altered the arrangements and receivod her with full sovereign honors.

Prince Ruspoli, surrounded by the Swiss Guard, awaited her at the foot of the royal staircase and conducted her to the secret antechamber, where the Pope, standing at the entrance, received her. Raising Natalio from her knees, the Pontiff took her hand and led her to his study. Immediately after she was introduced into the presence of the Pontiff the former Queen fell on her knees and expressed a wish to kiss his foot. His holiness gently prevented her, and listened while she recounted the troubles of her life and the pim-sa to come to her with her conversion. The audience lasted half an hour. On her departure the Pope accompanied the ex-Queen a few steps, laid his left hand on her head and bestowed a parting blessing. After receiving the Papal benediction Natalie burst into tears. Some time elapsed before she was able to oontrol herself. London, May 10. Ping-pong has created a now disease. It is called tenosynovitis and consists in the swelling of the sheaths of the tendons connected with the muscles around the shin.

Several distinct cases arising from pingpong playing are reported in the medical journals. Inflammation is caused by the wearing of ordinary stiff-laced boots when playing the game, which demands sudden alterations of position, the weight being thrown mainly on the ankles. Rest effects a cure, but simultaneously with tho discovery of the disease comes an advertisement of a patent ping-pong shoe. London, May 10. Ambassador Choate was the central figure at a dinner given at the Criterion by English journalists to American and colonial nowspaper men in celebration of the coronation. Sir Douglas Straight, oditor of the Pall Mall Gazette, presided. Ambassador Choate responded to the toast, “ Our Colonial and American Visitors.” He said that, as an organiser and creator of public opinion, journalism was to-day the greatest force in the United States, and continued. “ Our countrymen are flocKing by tens of thousands to these shores to witness the coronation. It is because we believe the coronation signalises a renewal of that English spirit which follows the British flag as it greets the rising sun on its journey round the globe and which makes this coming event a declaration of the continuance of that policy, that kingdom, I may say, of law, order, justice, liberty, knowledge,' Christianity and civilisation, which, in the main, have marked the history of England for the last few centuries.”