MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 506, 20 August 1902, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

Paris, June 28.

Captured by Greek brigands, thrco months ago, Philip Dinsmore, a former resident of Washington, now representing American agricultural machines in Europe has just returned to Paris. Mr Dinsmore, who with a party—including Stravolopoulo, son of Athens's most popular banker—was made a prisoner by the Greek brigands, says that the bandits are remarkably pious and would not give the prisoners food if they declined to audibly say grace before meals. He declared these outlaws have a small library containing only the most edifying works. They are, ho says, apparently on the very best terms with the monks residing on the solitary heights of the mountains, and in one of uhese convents the ransoms of 20,000d0l wero paid, the monks supplying the scales in which the coin was weighed. Paris, June 25. Princess Louise, of Coburg, the eldest daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, now a shadow of her former beautiful self, has just been released from the sanitorium in which she was confined some time ago on a pretext of lunacy after her love adventure with a lieutenant in the Austrian Army. The unfortunate hero of this tragic romance, it is said, will soon be pardoned by Emperor Francis Joseph on condition that he will emigrate to the United States or Australia and never return to Austria. Paris, June 28.

Tremendous mass meetings were held last wc-ek in the labor exchanges throughout France to advocate the abolition of the death penalty. President Loubet, who has always been so much affected by an execution that he cannot sleep for days before or after its occurrence, is heartily in favor of the reform. It is said that he has promised himself that until the measure is adopted he will follow- President Grevy's example by refusing to send any more victims to the guillotine and commuting the sentence in each case to life imprisonment.