MAIL ITEMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8809, 10 May 1907, Page 4

MAIL ITEMS.

Lobdoji, March 22. The Atlantic rates war 10 likely (0 be renewt-d this year. Four men working in a diving boll were drowned at Wilhelmshaven.

A four-page letter by Robert Burr B was sold at Sotheby’s for the record price 0f.£141. Hundreds of Viennese wives are for the first time in their lives attempting to bake bread, owing to the bakers’ strike. The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., is shortly to publish a volume on extinct birds. The book has cost £20,000 to produce. Ten thousand pounds for research work has bean given by the Goldsmiths’ Company to the Lawes Agricultural Trust (Rothamsted Experimental Station). Mrs Hannah Williamson, of Milv'llle, New York, who was 100 jean old, and had never suffered a serious illness in her life, has been burned to deatb.

One hundred and eighty-seven of ihe English strikebreakers employed on the docks at Hamburg have struck I ir more pay. Picture post-cards bearing photographs of Mr and Mrs Thaw are said to have a larger sale in England just new than any other photographs, The postal authorities at Hoboken, New York, despairing of the dilatory telegraph boy, have employed girls, to the great improvement of the service. There is not at present a single English peer among the Law Lords, The final Court of Appeal is composed entirely of Irishmen and Scotsmen.

The inhabitants of Melraoth, Natnl, appealed to the Government to liaild a kager into which they might retreat in the event of ar.o'her native rising, which they fear.

The Countess Vilma Pesiotics who bolongs to one of the first Hungarian noble families, settled a house worth £12,000 on Radi Nyary, a gipsy violinist, and married him in a registry office. Lord Loreburc, the Lord Chancellor, declared emphatically in the House of Lo-ds for Home Rule, which he said is as sure to come as that to-morrow’s sun will rise. Nearly 800 motor cars are now registered in Cairo, Egypt, and it is evident they are conquering the desert.

Reports from Jamaica show that Governor Bwettenham’s resignation has been received with general satisfaction. The Governor’s unpopularity is o’ long standing, and has boon brought to a ciimax by recent events.

Tha popularity of Victoria Palls, Rhodesia, as a winter resort for Eojiish men and women is incroasing J to such an extent that it has bean found necessary to augment the railway service and to increase the hotel accommodation. The Quebec Legislature has unanimously passed a Rill granting a pension to Mrs Maxwell, the mother of the tsacher at the Montreal Pro testant School who lost her life in the recent fire at the school in an endeavour to save the children. The Premier, Mr Gouin, and other members spoke in feeling terms of the heroism of Mias Maxwell. Dressed in the latest modes, and including some of the belles of Vienna, 5000 of the dressmakers on strike marched on March 18th in rows of four alone' the Ringstrasse after a demonstration on tho Corao. They were led by smiling police, and* crowds on the strests showed their delight at the march of beauty. The port authorities at Dover believe that when the new western arm has b.en constructed the entrance to the harbour will be safe, and Dover will become one of the finest naval harbours m the kingdom.

A new type of warship has been i a vented for Messrs Vickers, Sons, and Maxim. It will be propelled by gas engines, will have no funnels, and its guns will be placed so that they will fire in all directions. The Canadian Immigration Department expects 800,000 immigrants . this year. Over 200,000 arrived last year. Every berth on steamers scheduled to leave England up fo July Ist has been taken. Writs have been issued (says a Johannesburg despatch) against Mr J. B. damages for defamation. Mr Robinson has charged the Band Native Labour Association with deliberately curtai ing the supply of native labour for the mines, and the writs have been issued sgaiust him at the instance of the Association and of six of its members.

The Dowager Empress of Russia has given a donation of £IO,OOO to the Red Cross Society, the interest on which is to bo allocated to three prizes for the best means of relieving the wounded on the battlefield or at sea. The international meeting of the Red Croes Society will be held in London from June 10th to 14th next

General Christian De Wet has stated that he strongly objects to General Botha’s visit to London, on the ground, first, that the Premier Should have -gone through a full session of Parliament to learn public opinion, and, second, that Orangia should have been considered. “ Dinners, and again dinners, and notbrng but dinners,” said General De Wet, “may divert General Botha’s mind from the business of his country.— Johannesburg correspondent.