Events That Have Happened.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 12 May 1904, Page 3

Events That Have Happened.

DOINGS IN ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A WOULD-WIDE COLLECTION. THE KAISER'S HEALTH. LONDON, March 29. Ominous rumburs as to the state of the German Emperor's health have again begun to circulate, and even the Times yesterday committed itself in a leader to the somewhat serious .statement that "there is reason to believe that all danger of a recrudescence of tho trouble has not yet been averted." The Kaiser's suite on board the Hohciuollern includes Dr. Ilbert, the issistant of the throat specialist of Frankfort who, in November last, removed tho polypus growth from the Kaiser's left vocal cord. But it is a long time since then, and therein lies the hopefulness of the situation. In the case of his father, the Emperor Frederick, the growth in exactly the same place had reappeared within a month of its extirpation, during the period of absolute rest which he was Bent to Ems to pass, and then it was seen that the worst fear of his German doctors—six of them—had been realised. MURDER BY LOT. ROME, March 29. ~-5 The semi-official Agenzia Italiana 'publishes the following notice concerning the plot against the Pope The Italian Government having been officially informed of the departure of two Anarchists from South America, measures were taken to prevent their access to Italy. The police in the Borgo commissariate in the vicinity of the Vatican have been strengthened. The Giornale d'ltalia devotes half a column to the subject in to-night's issue, and states that it has ascertained that the Anarchists in question have sailed not from Buenos Ayres, but from Port Saint Paul, in Brazil. Why the Pope should have incurred the hatred of the Anarchists was explained to me from a Vatican source to-day. According to information received from Buenos Ayres by a ' Roman Cardinal, an Anarchist conclave was held in that city to de- , cide upon a fresh practical demonstration of their principles. Papers bearing the names of all the reigning Sovereigns were placed in a box, and the fatal slip was drawn. It bore the name of Pius X. Afterwards lots were east as to the two comrades who should execute the decree. PALACES UNEARTHED. BERLIN, March 30. An interestingi report is to hand from the valley of the Tigris, where an expedition is at work under the auspicep of the German Orient Society, excavating on the site of the ancient city of Assur, the capital of the Assyrian monarchy. The expedition has partly unearthed several buildings, among them five palaces and a temple, together with numerous bricks covered with inscriptions, and throwing much light on the period from 1900 to 600 before Christ. Of special interest are inscriptions from the reign of Sardanapalus. One of the be|st finds is a carved basaltic column, with a rough portrait of King Salamanassar 11., and a somewhat lengthy inscription reciting the deeds of this monarch. The explorers were much astonished to discover a relief of Hercules clad in a lion's skin. The walls of the palaces were decora-ted with coloured drawings of high, artistic value. The German Orient Society also publishes reports from its Babylonian expedition, in which the leader says that he has discovered a palace in a room of which several inscribed bricks were found containing valuable information regarding the trading habits of the Babylonians. I CHOIRBOYS ON STRIKE. NEW YORK, March 21. The boys belonging to the Heavenly Rest Choir, at the Universalist Church, New York, went on strike recently, owing to a decision to de-i duct sixpence from their wages onwet days when the collection is small. The choristers displayed, according to the choirmaster, the undisciplined spirit of the Wild West. Many newspapers have published in terviews with the boys. A truce has been declared pending the return off the rector from Chicago. In the meantime Bishop Wortbington improved the occasion yesterday by lecturing the lads, who sit in the church under an arch inscribed with angels. The Bishop lamented the decadence of the coming generation, declaring that parents were partly responsible for it, inasmuch as they prepared themselves for church, not by prayer and meditation, but by reading bundles ol Sunday newspapers. ] INCAS TREASURE FOUND. ! NEW YORK, March 21. A telegram from La Paz, Bolivia, states that English and American mining engineers who have been prospecting in the mountains in the interior of Bolivia havfl discovered the buried treasure of the old Incas, which has been the object of search for several centuries. It is stated that the treasure reaches in modern | money the enormous sum of £3,200, 000, and was discovered near the small town of Chayalta, among the mountains. Very few details have come through Regarding the finding of the treasure, but it is believed to have been come upon accident. The announcements o! 'ts finding in the newspapers of PeK" an d Bolivia has created great exciteu nent amongst the natives of these countries, who firmly believe that onl>' a portion of the immense treasure has been found which the earliest' chronicles credit the Inoas with hiding,* The natives doclare that treasure to the amount of £6,000,000 is still buried among the hills, and large numbers of the inhabitants are rush-

ing to the scene in the hope? of discovering it. The Bolivian Government has taken charge of the amount discovered by the engineers, and it is expected they will send a guard to the scene of the "discovery in l order to prevent indiscriminate searching. £12,000 FOR WRONGFUL DISMISSAL. CAIRO, March 14. Our Nestors at the Ministry of Justice have recently received a rude shock from the ■decision of the Tribunal of First Instance of the Mixed Courts at Cairo, which awarded no less than £12,000 damages to M. Leopold Blasiaux for wrongful dismissal from the post of Judge of the Native Court of First Instance, -which he had honourably and impartially filled- for a period of twenty years. Ostensibly, on the ground of illOiealth, but, in reality, because lie was not a persona grata with the ""powers that be," this gentleman received summary notice to quit. From the first everyone acquainted with the facts of the case was aware that the Government's action was in the highest degree arbitrary ; and it has thus been unequivocally characterised by the judgment of the Mixed Tribunal above adverted to. The most ugly feature in the whole proceeding was the employment of a native judge to report adversely to the ijaimant—an act which drew from ttJje European Bench some very trenchant observations. To tb® urgent demands that are being mil&i for reforms involving expenditure ixi the various Departments of State, tbe Government's invariable excuse for non-acquiescence is the want of funds. Small wonder that the exchequer should require replenishing when money is being frittered away in the above and other equally improper directions. .A great slaughter of human aniinwls, such as Fleas, Flies, Lice on Plants, or Pawl-:, on Horses, <*n Head.- : Cockroaches. &c. will be eflectr-l by using Bockn "Morteln Insect Powder and Spreaders. Will kill within five minutes every fly in a closed room. Price, 1/ each. Bock's Mortein is world-fani--ed,, but cunningly Imitated. The public will kindly see that the pro- : prietors' name, P. Bock and Co, is /■on every tin, as none is genuine A frttbout It. All chemists and stores,*