British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 October 1913, Page 4

British and Foreign

[SLHUTIUC TJILBGiUFH, COPYRIGHT.] [PER I'EESS ASSOCIATION.] FALL FROM A HEIGHT. London, October U. , At Barcelona, a balloon was ascending', when a man in tlie crowd was caught in the guide rope and carried up. The aeronaut, in trying to drag him into the car, .overbalanced and was instantly killed. The balloon, with the man dangling from it, continued its iiiglit and it linally descended some kilometres distant. The man was uninjured. AN ECCENTRIC b HEATH. (Sydney Sun). Paris, October (i. Sir Frederick Williams died from an overdose of ether in an expensively furnished fiat at Monfmatre (Paris). It was decorated with rare liowers and incense burners. He was the third holder of the title, and had held it tor ten years. He inherited an immense fortune, but forsook the country and led a Bohemian life in London, and became the centre of a group of aesthetic youth, whose eccentricities were notorious. They frequented an apartment in Kensington upholstered entirely in black with a coffin in the centre, beside which incense burned, and in front was a human skull. Annoyed at the attentions aroused by the fantastic rites, Williams went to Paris. AMERICAN MEAT TRADE. ' (Sydney Sun.) London, Uctober (i. The Chambers of Commerce have agreed to issue a certificate to facilitate admission in accordance with the American tariff. Tlie Hon. T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand), interviewed, said that when the Americans enter flic foreign fields as exporters of manufactured produels, competition would leave England and the continent to wake up to a degree yei unrealised.