’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1049, 17 November 1903, Page 3

’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

(For R.AI.S. Sierra at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27. FRANCE AMD ITALY.

ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME TO KING VICTOR.

PARIS, Ocl. id.

France gave a royal reception today to King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena of Italy. Paris resounded with acclamations • of welcome, booming of guns, and the playing of the national anthems of Italy and France. When the Royal train stepped at the station, President Laubet cordially greeted the visitors and presented the members of his suite. President Loubct and the King then entered a carriage 'drawn by four black horses, with outriders and escort ol cuirassiers, through a double line of soldiers. The President and King, followed by Alpdame Loubet and the Queen, and suites, drove down the avenue De Bois de Boulogne, around the Arc de Triumplie, and along the Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde and to Deorsay Palace,

WORKMEN ENTOMBED

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27. A despatch dated New York, October 2otn says —A score of workmen were entombed in Rapid transit Fund at One Hundred and Ninety-fifth street and moauway Street ust iii£ni, owing lo the premature uis--charge of a olast at 1.30 o clock this (Saturday) morning. The rescue .workers said the death-list would reach sevenleeni hut three bodies nave been recovered so far. The section ol the tunnel where the fatality occurred is one of the most difficult in the whole line, being built through solid rock. All through the twenty-four hours of day men were working there, and progress is slow. A gang of men went on duty at six o’clock last night. At ten o’clock preparations wcie made for blasting. According to the story, of a colored man ernpli yed on the work, an electrician .went into the mouth of the _ tunnel to string wires. He was lollowed by Hie wnole seventeen or eighteen Italians. The men had scarcely entered the tunnel when three blasts were heard, followed by. a rumbling sound, and down on top of the men fcii Lons of rocs whicn had been loosened by the blast. Seven of the men. nud time to escape, but tin■greater number were caught and buried before they had time _ to stir. The noise of the blasts alarmed tr.e neighborhood, and brought crowds to tiie scene in a hurry. Calls were sent for Hospital reserves, firemen and hospital surgeons. They responded quickly, anu began the work of releasing the entombed laborers. In a short time four badly-injured Italians were taken cut and two dead .men, but the others remained pinioned beneath the rock. Two ol these .who were nearest the rescuers were so badly crushed that iu was evident they could not live. To relieve their agony, the physicians administered morphine.

A FLOOD

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27. A despatch dated New. York, October 13th, says Torrential rains during the last three days laid New, York city ana all tne surrounding country under a ilood. Brooklyn cellars and a great portion of the sub-way was flooded. The suburban steam and trolly lines were crippled by fioods and .wash-outs, and in the early morning hours thousands oi suburban residents were unable to reach their offices in the city. Report of extensive floods and serious damage to property, and interruption oi traffic, came from almost all sections oi Jersey and Long Island. In Paterson alone the damage is estimated to he $2,01)0,1100, without taking account ol the loss in wages to thousands, who have been deprived of tbeir occupation by tlie shutting down of factot iety .The water is reported to he falling, but the distress continues great, and to-night fully 500 persons are still compelled to seek food and shelter in the armory. It is estimated that the Hood along Delaware river will cause a loss of nearly $1,000,000. Nine remarkably fine bridges, each built at a cost of 50,0u0 dollars to 100,000 dollars were carried away.

(Per s.s. Sierra at Auckland.) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19. Late despatches from London give accounts o£ the monster meetings addressed by Mr Chamberlain, who is making a tremendous ellort to lurth'Cr his policy among the working people. There is eviuenee of a great change in the public attitude towards the policy winch he urges. The sentiment of the colonies, it is urged, is generous, and the working men are advised to look upon the people ot the colonies as fellow-citizens and to remember that they are not freetraders. . , , Despatches from Paris give details of the signing of a treaty bringing England and France into closer relations. The treaty, it is asserted, follows the lines of the Ilay-Paunce-fote arbitration treaty, which to some extent served as a model. Olhcials at Washington view the negotiations as, evidence of a sympathetic attitude to the United States, 'they praise Great Britain on the practical adoption of the theory of arbitration. The treaty is mainly significant in being the culmination of a rapprochement between France and Britain after centuries of war, the maintenance of defensive armaments, and the recent animosities growing out, of the Fashoda incident and tne South African war. It is also significant tendency towards the rearrangement of European political alliances. The French feeling heretofore nas been rather sceptical over the practical realisation of the (treaty. The Alaskan boundary dispute having. neen settled by admitting most of toe claims of the United States, Canadian people are bitterly disappointed, as well as somewhat enraged. Their contention is that the Mother Country has sacrificed them for the sake of satisfying the Americans. So disgusted are they that they talk of severing relations with Great Britain. The Halifax Chronicle. a leading newspaper supporter in the maritime provinces of the Liberal party, says : “ This Alaskan episode lias made it clear that our existing relations to the Empire cannot he continued much longer. We are even now at the parting of the ways. Our subordinate position has been so clearly and humiliatingly revealed that it must speedily become unbearable.” It is added that only two courses are now open to Canada—complete legislative independence alone ; or the status of an independent nation. The paper says that there is much to commend the latter step in particular, b'cause it would free Canada from the danger of being ever embroiled with the United States, on account of its European connection, and. at the same time would secure for the Dominion the benefit of the protection of the Monroe doctrine.

There was considerable excitement in commercial circles yesterday at a report of a run on the savings banks of St. Louis. The cause of the trouble,- which is now well in hand, was 1 a rumor, not traced to any reliable source, that the banks of St. Louis were unsound. A telegram from New York sums up the situation thus : The situation at Si. Louis resulted in telegraphic transfers to that' city from here of over two million dollars. In addition, large sums were sent to Chicago and New Orleans. The banks are also kpown to be "shipping heavily through other channels. This is a plain intimation that the western crop movement needs, though long deferred, are making inroads On the local banking reserve, as welT as on the emergency requirements a, Si Louis. It was not surprising, therefore, that the rate of call for money should rise to five per cent., and the rate for time money grow distinctly firm. The rise in the local money rates may have contributed to a .sharp'break in sterling exchange, although offerings of cotton mills in that market were reported in very large volume, and heavy exports of grain were also engaged. " This pre pargd the expectation for a weakening of the bank showing of next Saturday, but with N.ew York bank :e----serves higher than in the corresponding period for several years, and with the limit of Government deposits promised by the Secretary of the Treasury, to relieve the situation. .sti.il 25 million dollars went away. There is no real uneasiness over th; monetary situation. As evidence of ,the spirit of distrust towards banks :aff trust companies, the St. Louis episode is nevertheless deeply impressive, to the apprehension of the financial worfd.