MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 561, 3 November 1902, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

FUTURE KING OF ROUMANIA. A SOLDIER AT FIVE YEARS. BUCHAREST, Sept 10. Prince Carol (Charles; of Roumaiua, who will not he live years old until October 15th, has already entered the army of this little kingdom. lie is enrolled in the Fourth Regiment of Kochiori, of which his mother is the proprietary Colonel—that is to say, she gets the title for supporting the (regiment. Tho Prince is a grandnephew of King Edward of England, his mother being the eldest daughter of the late Duke of Saxc-Coburg, better known as the Duke of Edinburgh. His father, the heir presumptive, is a nephew of King Charles of Roumania, who. is childless. BOY KING OF UGANDA, HAS SOME 2,000,0U0 SUBJECTS. LONDON, Sept. 23.

The British Government has recently accorded the title of Highness to the seven-year-old King of Uganda, a little African chieftain, whose territory is now part of a British protectorate. lie is a grandson of the celebrated Mutessa, and descendant of a long line of kings, butt has nerer been far away from Mengo, t-liq native capital of Uganda, where lie was born. .The territory over which the King, or Kabaka,” rules is nearly 20,000 square miles in extent, and has a native population of between one and two million people, YANKEE MAIL TUBE. PLAN SUITS PARIS, Paris, Sept. 23. St. John Gaffney, representing the Batchellcr Pneumatic Conduit Company of Philadelphia, has succeeded ui stirring up the slow-moving French officials by his demonstrations. The tests proved so conclusive that the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs has ordered a line established from Bou-logne-sur-Seine to the central Paris office, and has appointed a commission to report on whether -or not it is desirable to have every local city office .thus connected with the central and (the railway stations. The difference between this system and the one now in operation in French cities is that, instead of narrow conduits only big enough to carry dispatches, the American patent uses tubes hig enough for mail-bags now transported in waggons. On account of the successful tests here, Mr Gaffney has been summoned .to Berlin and SUPetersburg.

BANK OF FRANCE, BOASTED VAULT PROTECTION FAILED. Paris, Sept. 23. The discovery of the fact that the Bank of France had been robbed of 250,000 fraJics shook the very foundations of that sedate old institution. Jn spite of the numerous doors, time locks, sentinels, and hardened steelwalls, tke vaults were entered, bags were slashed, and coin .making a load for four men to carry was abstracted. The robbers left no trace, and nothing was broken, showing that at least five trusted employees were implicated The system adopted to protect the vault was reputed to be proof against the most ingenious attacks. It was often compared with and held to be superior to the safeguarhs thrown arouid the United States Treasury at

IWaffiington. 1 DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUCH. [GETS BACK HER BRACELET. London Sept. 13. Tlo Duchess of Bucclcuch has recovered tho :ostly bracelot she lost in Westminster Abbiy during tho coronation ceremonies. It wts restored to her by a widoly known lady cf rank, with the explanation that Bbc went abroad immediately after the cerenony and upon returning to London inspired her coronation robe, when the misdng bracolet dropped out of its folds.

SNAKE CHARMER’S PETS. TIRNED ON AND SLEW HER. Paris, Sept. 13. Pimc!a, a famous snake charmer, wa s foutd this morning dead in bed. She wa s aecißtotned to take sevoral of her snake petsinto tho bed in order to keep tbom %varu. Either because tho charmer's monmonts wero not as cautious as usual or fr some reason there seoins to have a general rebellion. Her body was Bwdcn into a shapeless bluish mass, shoeing that several snakes must have bittn bor.