UNKNOWN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81849, 25 September 1906, Page 4

UNKNOWN NEWS.

SIM.MAKY OF TIIK WORLDS HAITKXIXGS. London, August 21. A picture said to be a genuine Guido, and worih ,£-"<*>> was bought in a London auction room for £l. The great success of the submarines and destroyers during the reient French manoeuvres has led Admiral Fournier to recommend that their number be increased. The enormous trade in forged Sevre porce'ain, both in London and on the Continent, is ;eceiving the attention of the French Government. The Cape Government is sending young men to Europe to study the wine industry.. Sir Charles Metcalfe says that by next month there will be a regular service of trains from Capetown to Broken Hill, a distance of 2100 miles. The National Art Students' League in New Pork, the largest school in America, has been raided by "purity" • agents, because of the publication of nude statues in an art magazine. 1 In a l .! its branches British shipping showed an increase of prosperity during the year 1905. A young burglar caught in Paris was found to be living in handsomely i furnished apartments, with a housekeeper and valet. He kept a motor s car and a dogcart. ! The Rev. F. P. Durnford, vicar of 7 All Souls' Church. Hastings, has started a crusade against "immndc-ii" 1 costumes worn bv women on the 1

The Socialist Labor Party is mak ing a determined attempt to capture the Miners' Federation, which has hitherto held aloof. Justice Olnstead and two other justice' of the New York Court of General Session held that to restrict the work of women and children to ten hours a day by State law is an unwarranted invasion of constitutional rights. Miss Millie Brown has been sent to prison for thirty-three ujys for establishing a toy telegraph system which enabled her to communicate with her fiance.

The Hon. Charles Lister, eldest son and heir of Lord Ribblcsdale. has for Imally joined the Independent Labor Party. The English orchard harvest promises well- Large supplies are coming into London. The passive resistors are jubilant acout the decision of the Appeal Court, justifying their action. Dr Clifford has great hopes of recover ing his famous trowel, which was distrained on.

The terrwe storm ot Thursday last caused several deaths and widespread ruin. \Two people were killed and one fatally injured at Guilfi.rd, a Scottish farmer was struck by lightning, and a boy was blown into a canal and drowned. The crops are destroyed in many places. Anxiety concerning the stability of Winchester Cathedral has been in creased by the fall of the pointing of a joinc in the vau'ted ceiling over the south aisle of the naive.

Newfoundland has put into effect the act requiring Chinamen entering the colony to pay ,£6O each. This will kill the scheme for importing coolies to work in the mines. What is believed to be a record special rate, which has to be paid in addition to the ordinary rates, is being collected at Molksham, Wiltshire. It is one of seven shil'ings in ne pound, to cover the cost of arbitration over sewage matters, in which the district lost.

At Little Falls. New York, on Tues day, a balloonist and parachute jumper, named William Johnson, was killed. When he jumped from the bai Icon at a height of 5000 feet the parachute failed to open. Jolinson fell en some telegraph wires 75 feet from the ground, and. after rebounding, fell to the ground. It has been decided to build a biidge across the St Lawrence river at Montreal, in order to make easier access to the capital of the Dominion of Canada. The bridge, which will be a gigantic feat of engineering, will be 2\ miles long. The Colorado river burst its banks near Fort Worth. Texas, and swept away property worth ,£it,o.ooo. Many lives were lost. Fourteen members of the American Ice Trust were indicted- in New York for raising the price of ice 150 per cent during the hot weather. Dr Karl Peters prophesies a great rising of the blacks in South Africa against white rule. It is suggested that the wrecked battleship Montague could be made useful as a target for guns and tor pedoes. Mr Alfred Baldwin, M.P., advised the shareholders of the Great \V> stern Railway to oppose Mr Will Crooks' parliamentary motion to force the railway companies to give M.P.'s free passes.

Nine mm were killed at Charleroi coal Mine, Belgium, on Tuesday. As the cage was bins: lowered the cable broke, and the nine men dropped 3600 feet to the bottom of the shaft. Mounted gendarmes and police were called out to guard the mine, which was in danger of being sacked by the infuriated relatives of the victims. An epidemic due to love, the weather, a gui'ty conscience, and other causes, has broken out in Paris. An Ethiopian preacher has ben ■sentenced at Durban to six months' imprisonment and twenty five lashes for offering prayers of a seditious character in a native kraal. The prayers were to the effect that the natives should be given strength to drive the whites across the sea. A Chicago woman in a hurry to catch a train knocked down the driver of an electric street car and drove 'he car herself at a terrific rate, to the ter- [ ror of the passengers. Forty replicas of Sir Luke Fihh's' portrait of Queen Alexandra are being made by six artists at St. James' Palj ace. The pictures are to be sent to I the colonies and his Majesty's Eml bassies.