MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81859, 6 October 1906, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S HAPPENINGS. London, August 31. Thir cen persons have been arrested at Panama charged with plotting to overthrow the Republic and to assassinate Senor Amador, the President. Three Indian chiefs w.io have travelled 3000 miles in the hope of obtaining the King's protection for their .mniing grounds were received by His Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Peasant-made homespuns are the fashion en the moors litis season. Some society sportswomen are wearing knickerbockers with suede Norfolk jacke s. A man whose relatives had identified a bodv as his and buried it was compelled to appear at the Batter-ea Joroner's Court and swear to his own identity. . . New tramways linking the existing lines at a cost of £(15,000 will be con«dered bv the London County Council. Wireless telegraph apparatus has been installed on many trains in Italy on Professor del Vecchio's system. The system renders it easy for trams to communicate with stations and .vit'n each other. Lieutenant W. E. Benn't .in charge of the United States Army recruu.ng tations at New Orleans, reports tha >ut of 106 applicants in July only 2tj were accepted as fit for enlistment. He savs that cigare te smoking, late lours,' and other bad habits are rumng the young men of the south. Mrs Devonshire, the wife of a retired officer of the Indian Army, was found dead with her little daugh ei in the Charing Cros- Hotel. It is believed she shot her daughter first. and then committed suicide. Owing to an error of s atics. tie work of reconstructing the fallen Campanile at Venice will have to be begun again. A Swiss girl took pru»sic acid aflei deciding by cards that luck had deserted her. The Hungarian Government has made an offer to the Cunard Company for four "f their -hips and the enrgrant trade between Fiume and New York. The directors are prepared to negotiate A pauper who has been living on he rates for 20 years was found to be in receipt of the income of £I4OO in Consols. It is asserted on reliable authority that the Pope « s suffering from gout in a dangerous form. Although h : s Holiness is apparently well, it is feared that fatal paralysis of the heart may occur. Six hundred Boers, who belong to a fanatical sect, have trekked from the Transvaal, fearing that the colony is to be visited by Divine wrath. Baron Komura, Japan's new Am- • fjassador to Eng'and. has arrived in London. He is one of the greatest living Japanese statesmen. Five hundred Bombay postmen have gone on strike for an increase of wages, paralysing the service. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the ring-leaders.